Re: [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Jun 28 2023 - 07:37:13 EST


On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:22 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > On 16.06.23 17:07, Babis Chalios wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Some time has passed since I sent this. Any comments/thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Can we please get this merged somehow? Greg, any advise?
> >
> > This is purely a device notification event to user space, similar to network
> > link change events and the likes and has nothing to do with Jason's
> > envisioned random reseed event exposure. We can happily send RFC patches for
> > the latter after this is merged too.
>
> Sure, I can take it, but it's the middle of the merge window and it's
> too late for anything new right now, sorry.
>
> I'll pick it up after 6.5-rc1 is out.

Please do *NOT* do that. I'm still unconvinced that this isn't just a
subset of the vmclone work that needs to be done in conjunction with
the RNG, and I'd like to get those recent virtio patches merged first
before we move onto this, so we can see where this fits in
holistically. I would not be happy if this got merged prematurely.