Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: selftests: Replace ulong with unsigned long
Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.kvm |
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2026, Hisam Mehboob wrote:
> On 8/18/26 03:24, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2026, Hisam Mehboob wrote:
> > > Gentle ping on this patch; it has been on the list since Aug 3 without
> > > any comments.
> >
> > Patience, please. This is on my list of things to grab for 7.4. You posted right
> > at the end of a cycle, shortly before the merge window, and the code in question
> > has existed for years, i.e. it didn't seem urgent enough to squeeze into 7.3.
> >
> > If this is the very last thing needed to unblock musl builds of KVM selftests,
> > than that changes things, but IIRC there are other "fix selftests builds with musl"
> > patches floating around.
>
> No, this isn't the last blocker. I verified with musl-gcc on x86_64:
> with only this patch applied, the build still fails in steal_time.c on
> pthread_attr_setaffinity_np() -- it also needs your task-pinning fix
> ("KVM: selftests: Use KVM's task pinning APIs in steal_time", which I
> resent). With both applied, the musl build passes.
Oh, so on top of "https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux.git next", this *is* the last
blocker? If so, then I'll grab this for 7.3.