[GIT PULL] KVM/arm64 updates for 6.2

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Tue Dec 6 13:43:43 PST 2022


On 12/6/22 19:20, Mark Brown wrote:
>> I almost suggested doing that on multiple occasions this cycle, but ultimately
>> decided not to because it would effectively mean splitting series that touch KVM
>> and selftests into different trees, which would create a different kind of
>> dependency hell.  Or maybe a hybrid approach where series that only (or mostly?)
>> touch selftests go into a dedicated tree?
>
> Some other subsystems do have a separate branch for kselftests.  One
> fairly common occurrence is that the selftests branch ends up failing to
> build independently because someone adds new ABI together with a
> selftest but the patches adding the ABI don't end up on the same branch
> as the tests which try to use them.  That is of course resolvable but
> it's a common friction point.

Yeah, the right solution is simply to merge selftests changes separately 
from the rest and use topic branches.

We will have more friction of this kind if we succeed in making more KVM 
code multi-architecture, so let's just treat selftests as the more 
innocuous drill...

Paolo




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