Re: [GIT PULL] KVM: x86 pull requests for 7.3

From: Paolo Bonzini

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 08:29:31 EST


On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2026, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sat, 2026-08-15 at 09:55 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > Il ven 14 ago 2026, 21:25 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> > > >
> > > > This was intended as the safe stable bugfix part, split out from all
> > > > the RCU and rwlock RT fun that can come later:
> > > >
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260811094829.98794-1-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > >
> > > Ok, I will take a look.
> >
> > Thanks. Although that nudge was directed more at Sean than you.
> >
> > I wouldn't necessarily want it to go forward *without* Sean's ack, but
> > those commits were deliberately split out as the ones I genuinely
> > believe to be simple uncontroversial fixes, with the fun stuff held
> > back for later. A couple of these ones are even actually Sean's.
>
> Those changes are very much on my radar, the latest version simply came in too
> late for 7.3.

Since they're mostly cleanups and bugfixes, I think we can add them
for -rc2? Or if I don't get the Arm changes in time, even for a second
PR in -rc1.

Paolo