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

Il sab 8 ago 2026, 00:39 Sean Christopherson <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > 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@mail.gmail.com

Heh^2, "Pick your poison, I guess" was not really inviting a response.
Overall the sense of my reply to you (that is: there are two callers
so let's not overthink wrappers) applied just as much to his message;
and checking AMD vs. Intel in common code is a total no-no so I kept
the reply in one place.

> 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

IIRC it doesn't apply anyway, but I am sure that the Debian/Proxmox
folks appreciate having it in stable, so I was planning to do the
backport by hand next week. I will wait of course now.

> 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.

Fair enough.

> > 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

Of course. :) Anyhow, I'll just post the revert+smaller patch in time
for the merge window.

Paolo