Re: [PATCH v5 00/28] KVM: combined patchset for MBEC/GMET support
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Apr 30 2026 - 15:24:25 EST
On Thu, Apr 30, 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 4/30/26 17:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I will once more send you to v3 (https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260408154217.458420-1-pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx/)
> > for the description of the series.
> >
> > v4 incorrectly rebased onto 7.1 KVM and broke the case where L1 disables
> > NPT. On top of that I made a few final touches on the patch split, and
> > opted to use the XU bit unconditionally in the MMU even if MBEC is disabled.
> > This is more consistent with the idea of reducing as much as possible
> > the differences between mbec=0 and mbec=1 modes.
>
> I placed this also at branch kvm-mbec of
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git.
A decent number of nits, but nothing that truly necessitates a respin or rewriting
of history. I don't have a strong preference between doing fixups versus cleanups
on top.