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

[Sean Christopherson]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 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.

I did a quick-ish pass today.  If you can hold off on v10 until later this week,
I'll try to take a more in-depth look by EOD Thursday.