On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote: > The bug Vitaly encountered is exactly why it's pre Premature send :-) What I was going to say... The bug Vitaly encountered is exactly why upstream process _strongly_ prefers splitting patches by logical changes, even when the changes are related or tiny. Bundling the fix for the egregious bug with the enhancement makes it unnecessarily difficult to grab _just_ the fix. In this case, Vitaly was on top of things and there was minimal fallout, but imagine if the fix was for KVM proper and needed to be backported. Some unsuspecting user would grab the "fix", apply it to their kernel, and suddenly be presented with previously unseen failures.
