kernel virtual machine (kvm) · Supported

Maintainers

• M Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/virt/kvm/
• F include/asm-generic/kvm*
• F include/kvm/iodev.h
• F include/linux/kvm*
• F include/trace/events/kvm.h
• F include/uapi/asm-generic/kvm*
• F include/uapi/linux/kvm*
• F tools/kvm/
• F tools/testing/selftests/kvm/
• F virt/kvm/*

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies Linux 7.1.8
  2026-08-09 18:36 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Linux 6.18.44
  2026-08-09 18:36 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 7.1 000/438] 7.1.8-rc1 review
  2026-08-07 15:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.18 000/396] 6.18.44-rc1 review
  2026-08-07 14:59 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
  4 attestations (2 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-07

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on stable (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday Re: Linux 7.1.8
  2026-08-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday Re: Linux 6.18.44
  2026-08-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 7.1 051/438] KVM: arm64: Reject guest_memfd memslots when the VM has MTE
  2026-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.18 042/396] KVM: arm64: Reject guest_memfd memslots when the VM has MTE
  2026-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Service local TLB flushes on failed nested VM-Enter
  2026-07-28 · Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: selftests: Verify SNP VMs are rejected from migration and mirroring
  2026-06-02 · Atish Patra <atish.patra@linux.dev>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: selftests: Verify SNP VMs are rejected from migration and mirroring
  2026-06-01 · Atish Patra <atish.patra@linux.dev>
• COLD39d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.12] Documentation: kvm: update links in the references section of AMD Memory Encryption
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.4
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE95d Re: Linux 6.18.27
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH 6.18 069/275] KVM: selftests: Fix reserved value WRMSR testcase for multi-feature MSRs
  2026-05-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.1
  2026-04-22 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.14
  2026-04-22 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.24
  2026-04-22 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD19d FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate LAUNCH_UPDATE_VMSA call in" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-04-20 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE137d Re: Linux 6.12.78
  2026-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.9
  2026-03-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE131d Re: Linux 6.18.19
  2026-03-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.12.y 8/8] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM
  2026-03-16 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE146d [PATCH 6.12.y 6/8] KVM: x86: Introduce Intel specific quirk KVM_X86_QUIRK_IGNORE_GUEST_PAT
  2026-03-16 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE146d [PATCH 6.12.y 2/8] KVM: x86: Quirk initialization of feature MSRs to KVM's max configuration
  2026-03-16 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-03-16 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-03-16 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE146d FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-03-16 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE148d Re: Linux 6.18.17
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.7
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE151d [PATCH 4/5] selftests: kvm: add a test that VMX validates controls on RSM
  2026-03-10 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• STALE151d [PATCH 3/5] selftests: kvm: extract common functionality out of smm_test.c
  2026-03-10 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• STALE145d [PATCH 6.18 116/314] KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE147d [PATCH 6.19 099/311] KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD39d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.12] Documentation: kvm: update links in the references section of AMD Memory Encryption
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.7
  2026-01-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.12.y] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures
  2026-02-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.6.y] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures
  2026-02-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.1.y] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures
  2026-02-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.163
  2026-02-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE179d Re: Linux 6.12.70
  2026-02-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE179d Re: Linux 6.6.124
  2026-02-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE179d Re: Linux 6.18.10
  2026-02-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE151d [PATCH 3/5] selftests: kvm: extract common functionality out of smm_test.c
  2026-03-10 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• STALE151d [PATCH 4/5] selftests: kvm: add a test that VMX validates controls on RSM
  2026-03-10 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>