Re: [GIT PULL] KVM (mostly s390) fixes for Linux 7.2-rc7

From: Sean Christopherson

Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 18:39:11 EST


On Fri, Aug 07, 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il ven 7 ago 2026, 19:07 Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I don't care _that_ much about the code itself, though I still think the out-param
> > is all kinds of ugly. I'm not at all ok with doing so silently
> >
> > and without what I would consider an honest attempt to address review feedback.
>
> Sorry about that, but again - I waited two weeks and got no reply to
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABgObfbDE+=ir_phPC+9sVYnNXur6dFx6oAfEGSnCbrOqFoyVA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/.
> I consider two weeks of wait, on a review that so far had been
> exclusively about taste, to *be* an honest attempt to gather the next
> round of feedback (which never came).

Heh, and I was waiting for a response to Yosry's thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO9r8zODKgCcjTBK=P6BuXBBZRoOAFMeRJU8BmkWL-BCX2LoBw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I also didn't prioritize responding (or even digging deeper) because I wasn't
expecting the patch to get fast-tracked to 7.2. It's not tagged for stable, the
code has existed for years, and at least for me, nothing else suggested it needed
to go in *now*. It doesn't help that the commit showed up in kvm/master late
yesterday; the first heads up I got that you were applying the patch as-is was
this pull request.

In other words, it's the lack of communication that's frustrating. Even a simple
"Hey, I'm applying this unless someone screams" would have sufficed.

> If you had proposed the above small patch, for example, it would have
> been a completely different thing.

Heh, if only past me had realized we could have done that. I guess the desire to
prove someone "wrong" on the internet is the mother of all invention? :-D

> I would have taken your suggestion immediately.
>
> Paolo
>
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/amPo-XdhFGIZquES@xxxxxxxxxx
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO9r8zM=Mb=eTEFGF0G-POvwwbSr7e8SN6zcDp=GstzKtBKcow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO9r8zMopB=YKXs5pkQmPf9uHKE0P0XORcNbc60AWXTusuY3tg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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