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Thu, 1 Oct 2026 13:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 11:46:05 -0600 From: Alex Williamson To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Paolo Bonzini , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe , Steffen Eiden , Janosch Frank , Claudio Imbrenda , David Hildenbrand , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Sven Schnelle , Sean Christopherson , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Matthew Rosato , Farhan Ali , Eric Farman , Tony Krowiak , Halil Pasic , Jason Herne , Harald Freudenberger , Holger Dengler , alex@shazbot.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] KVM/vfio: Use file-based reference counting for KVM Message-ID: <20261001114605.4167fa97@shazbot.org> In-Reply-To: <0c5fe5c2-4ab8-4d1f-a36a-84a8fd136160@linux.ibm.com> References: <20260928-vfio-v4-0-e32e226d5932@linux.ibm.com> <0c5fe5c2-4ab8-4d1f-a36a-84a8fd136160@linux.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.4.0 (GTK 3.24.52; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 1 Oct 2026 13:59:49 +0200 Christian Borntraeger wrote: > 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