Re: [PATCH v9 0/6] KVM: allow mapping non-refcounted pages

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Dec 19 2023 - 20:37:20 EST


On Tue, Dec 12, 2023, David Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:30 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023, David Stevens wrote:
> > > Sean, have you been waiting for a new patch series with responses to
> > > Maxim's comments? I'm not really familiar with kernel contribution
> > > etiquette, but I was hoping to get your feedback before spending the
> > > time to put together another patch series.
> >
> > No, I'm working my way back toward it. The guest_memfd series took precedence
> > over everything that I wasn't confident would land in 6.7, i.e. larger series
> > effectively got put on the back burner. Sorry :-(
>
> Is this series something that may be able to make it into 6.8 or 6.9?

6.8 isn't realistic. Between LPC, vacation, and non-upstream stuff, I've done
frustratingly little code review since early November. Sorry :-(

I haven't paged this series back into memory, so take this with a grain of salt,
but IIRC there was nothing that would block this from landing in 6.9. Timing will
likely be tight though, especially for getting testing on all architectures.