Re: [PATCH v16 00/45] arm64: Support for Arm CCA in KVM

On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:06:24 +0100,
Steven Price [off-list ref] wrote:

On 03/08/2026 16:01, Marc Zyngier wrote:

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On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:43:16 +0100,
Steven Price [off-list ref] wrote:

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This series is based on the guest_memfd in-place conversion v9 tree[1],
which is itself based on kvm-x86/next. It is also available as a git
repository:

Well done. Series on top of another random series, based on a random
tree. Unusable. Have you realised there are reasons why we (KVM/arm64)
ask people to base their series on a *released* tag from Linus' tree?
This means that Sashiko cannot, once again, provide any feedback on
this series, as it fails to apply.

Just to avoid any ambiguity: Sashiko reviews, as annoying as they are,
are not optional. They are very much mandatory, and I wish I could
turn back the clocks to run it on my own code...

Running it on your own is not enough, because *I* want to see what the
tool finds. Not to mention that non-Gemini runs of sashiko are much
less interesting (unsurprisingly).

Sorry, but I'm not sure what you expect me to do - clearly I want to
base my changes on top of the guest_memfd series which is being worked
on and not just ignore that work. So I've based my changes on top of the
tree that Ackerley published.

But that completely ignores the way the KVM/arm64 tree is managed. If
you base a series on a bunch of unmerged patches, how do you expect
people to do a sensible job at reviewing it? Now I need to ingest
another pile of random patches just to review this set?

Not happening, sorry.

	M.

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