On Thu, Aug 31, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > This is definitely stuff that I wish I took a look for earlier (and > this is also why I prefer small bits over the development period, as > it keeps me honest), I'll work on making this happen. I think the biggest thing on my end is to make it easier to track/merge arbitrary topic branches, e.g. so that I can put big series into their own branches with minimal risk of forgetting to merge them into kvm-x86/next. > I'll take a look but I've pulled it anyway. FWIW, I despise the "goverened features" name, though I like the guest_can_use() name. > BTW, not using filemap turned out to be much bigger, and to some > extent uglier, than I expected. I'll send a message to the private mem > thread, but I think we should not pursue that for now and do it in a > separate patch series (if at all) so that it's clearer what filemap_* > code is being replaced by custom code. Bummer, I was hoping we could avoid having to touch mm/ code.