Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] KVM/vfio: Use file-based reference counting for KVM

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>]

Am 02.10.26 um 10:48 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
[..]
>>> Am 28.09.26 um 15:07 schrieb Steffen Eiden:
>>>> This series switches the KVM-VFIO interface and external consumers over to
>>>> standard file-based reference counting, eliminating all external KVM symbol
>>>> exports.
>>>
>>> Paolo, Alex,
>>>
>>> I assume this will go over one of your tree? If you want, I can also create a topic branch
>>> for you to pick if you prefer that.
>>
>> It's a KVM focused change, vfio is collateral, so I'd defer to Paolo.
>> I don't believe I have anything pending that conflicts, it applies
>> cleanly against current vfio next branch, but a shared branch is always
>> a nice hedge.  Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
> 
> So I
> - applied these patches on top of 7.3-rc2
> - removed _safe from vfio_device_get_kvm_safe
> - created a topic branch at
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux.git/log/?h=vfio_file_reference
> 
> Paolo,
> unless you want to take it yourself, I will merge this into kvms390/next and schedule this for
> the next merge window.
> ok?
Its now part of linux-next 20261006. In case of future non-trivial conflicts before the next merge
window, feel free to pull in the topic branch and resolve it that way.

Christian