From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF802EB64DA for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231493AbjF1Lr2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:47:28 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36722 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230417AbjF1LrZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:47:25 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FDB42D58 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 04:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24CB4612B7 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06E91C433C9; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:47:22 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1687952843; bh=PVaFDEbBF2Au7UWFczdEngsK/YR0zBZrsGSHokTjBKM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=cRmjrlR7h5CB3Y/kvjrssKwZyep7A3kG7lSpSjfzPxtyv/uqd2+lrFXpuVolNswD2 E71w9o3rmH49rzMpZGlnpep5JTF2LsHaANnH3erZYpOaOri5mYNLBMU2laa0sQM9zZ WzTLiOMZ/n/23LjYFHGwmOXMa/F0RShpkFAYUxRI= Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:47:20 +0200 From: Greg KH To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Alexander Graf , Babis Chalios , Theodore Ts'o , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mzxreary@0pointer.de, xmarcalx@amazon.co.uk, Amit Shah Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning Message-ID: <2023062827-hatchet-await-50dd@gregkh> References: <20230531095119.11202-1-bchalios@amazon.es> <20f65557-766d-d954-f3ef-c26ad2b661dc@amazon.es> <6ccec434-42f0-0ae8-8c7b-bea4646c5e7d@amazon.de> <2023062834-lark-frostbite-9710@gregkh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 01:36:51PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:22 PM Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > On 16.06.23 17:07, Babis Chalios wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > Some time has passed since I sent this. Any comments/thoughts? > > > > > > > > > Can we please get this merged somehow? Greg, any advise? > > > > > > This is purely a device notification event to user space, similar to network > > > link change events and the likes and has nothing to do with Jason's > > > envisioned random reseed event exposure. We can happily send RFC patches for > > > the latter after this is merged too. > > > > Sure, I can take it, but it's the middle of the merge window and it's > > too late for anything new right now, sorry. > > > > I'll pick it up after 6.5-rc1 is out. > > Please do *NOT* do that. I'm still unconvinced that this isn't just a > subset of the vmclone work that needs to be done in conjunction with > the RNG, and I'd like to get those recent virtio patches merged first > before we move onto this, so we can see where this fits in > holistically. I would not be happy if this got merged prematurely. Ok, will hold off on this until you all work it out. The changelog text discusses entropy, so it makes sense that this looks like it is related to this topic. thanks, greg k-h