Re: [GIT PULL] KVM: x86 pull requests 6.18

Sean Christopherson
2025-09-30T19:16:50Z

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry this is coming in late, it's been a long week.
> >
> > Similar to 6.17, a few anomolies in the form of external and cross-branch
> > dependencies, but thankfully only one conflict that I know of (details in
> > CET pull request). Oh, and one "big" anomoly: there's a pull request for
> > guest-side x86/kvm changes (but it's small, hence the quotes).
> >
> > I tried my best to document anything unusual in the individual pull requests,
> > so hopefully nothing is too surprising.
>
> Quite big with CET and the FRED preparations, but no surprises indeed.
>
> Because of the conflict, I'll delay the bulk of these to a separate
> pull request, probably on Friday.
>
> I have already included (and tested on top of 6.17) the selftests,
> guest and generic pull request. Everything else in kvm/next. As I
> mentioned in the reply to the individual PR, I ended up cherry-picking
> the module patches.

Roger that. I updated kvm-x86/next to kvm/next, so we shouldn't get yelled at
for having duplicate commits.

> There were a couple preparatory patches that I guess could have been in misc,

Oh, yeah, that's super obvious in hindsight.

Thanks!