Re: [PATCH v11 00/29] KVM: arm64: Implement support for SME

Hi Mark and Mark,

On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 at 12:49, Mark Rutland [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 12:31:45PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:

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On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 at 12:28, Mark Rutland [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 11:26:41AM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:

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base-commit: 4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37

I think this SHA is local to your tree. I can't locate it, and neither
could Sashiko [1, 2].

That's the tagged commit for v7.2.-rc2. See:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37

I think that neither you nor sashiko have fetched mainline recently.

Thanks, I have 7.2-rc2, but `git show
4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37` gives me `fatal: bad object
4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37` . The SHA for rc2 is
8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda (which is what shows in the
link above, not sure what ID is, which is the part that matches your
SHA.

Sorry, 4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37 is the tag object for
v7.2-rc2, which points to commit object
8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda.

The odd thing is that we see different behaviour; for me (with git
2.30.2) running:

        git show 4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37

... gives me the description of the tag as per the example in the
context below.

I'm surprised that git show doesn't find that for you.

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That's what confused both Sashiko and I, since it's used as the base-commit SHA.

Sure; I'm just surprised as above that git show doesn't find the tag
object.

Two different issues that manifested in the same way:
- Sashiko wasn't advancing HEAD after fetch (
https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko/pull/317 )
- Neither Sashiko nor I were fetching tags

Thanks for this, and sorry for the noise.

Cheers,
/fuad

Mark.

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Cheers,
/fuad

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I have it locally after fetching from Linus's tree, as below.

Mark.

| [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% git describe 4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37
| v7.2-rc2
| [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% git show 4c45e14df2f4e77982ad70d6d8e3fe750edd4c37
| tag v7.2-rc2
| Tagger:     Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
| TaggerDate: Sun Jul 5 14:44:06 2026 -1000
|
| Linux 7.2-rc2
| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
| iQFSBAABCgA8FiEEq68RxlopcLEwq+PEeb4+QwBBGIYFAmpK+lYeHHRvcnZhbGRz
| QGxpbnV4LWZvdW5kYXRpb24ub3JnAAoJEHm+PkMAQRiGsv8H/Rn7Hr3Hp8t6au8B
| xQueZThJWjqQ4v8pyLnXF6OomKiDR24OTXMCrFgDkcmZ7RK2ALqowI3tQVwLUTuI
| yUN0qL2z2y+LyTcO0CYf3Lple8KlgLAXYMsv7pGLsOvhS7BW2jW97/bcbpUNxoHb
| eghxqbIEnyRImUbbyg+nW7VVk65RKdPUNkBPXfQ2NMVwe+SDE5Rl+NXNVqDNjGad
| soDTUBrD9yXkWX+4s0myleE62UzzH5nYgGPQeQgYmzWgq7LybH6WBlbQK9D7ODJR
| Cw3LCq1hwZZ2w04Yx+XwMHquGJYHW8L2pj77h95uhzksz8buKnM0AGwBCTC6RMoi
| AyUQvdc=
| =JUWl
| -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
| commit 8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda (HEAD, tag: v7.2-rc2, kernel-org-tip/locking/debug, kernel-org-stable/master, kernel-org-rw-pm/master, kernel-org-rw-pm/fixes, kernel-org-powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm, kernel-org-powerpc/next-test, kernel-org-powerpc/next, kernel-org-powerpc/fixes-test, kernel-org-powerpc/fixes, google-android-kvm/master)
| Author:     Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
| AuthorDate: Sun Jul 5 14:44:06 2026 -1000
| Commit:     Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
| CommitDate: Sun Jul 5 14:44:06 2026 -1000
|
|     Linux 7.2-rc2
|
| diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
| index b9c5792c79e01..b4035d3cef266 100644
| --- a/Makefile
| +++ b/Makefile
| @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
|  VERSION = 7
|  PATCHLEVEL = 2
|  SUBLEVEL = 0
| -EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
| +EXTRAVERSION = -rc2
|  NAME = Baby Opossum Posse
|
|  # *DOCUMENTATION*