[PATCH kvmtool 0/7] Fix --vcpu-affinity

[Marc Zyngier]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:49:25 +0100,
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Tested on an Orion board and a x86 machine. On the x86 machine, there's was this
> one thread called 'kvm-nx-lpage-re' which had affinity of the VCPUs, but I
> couldn't figure out where it was created. I grep'ed for each part of the name in
> the source node, no luck. I used strace, and couldn't see a clone call that
> returned the corresponding pid. Any clues would be appreciated.

This is a KVM internal thread, from what I can tell. See
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c::kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery().

	M.

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