Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Use gfn_to_pfn_cache for record_steal_time

From: Huang, Kai

Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 19:29:48 EST


On Thu, 2026-03-12 at 17:17 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> I've been content
> to ignore the kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast() warning[*] because I can't imagine anyone
> is crazy enough to emulate Xen with an RT kernel

[...]

> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/673f4bbc.050a0220.3c9d61.0174.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx

Completely not related to this patch:

One side effort of this lockdep warning is it suppresses all further lockdep
warnings. We have met in our TDX CI testing that a useful lockdep warning
was suppressed because of this one. We have since then disabled
CONFIG_KVM_XEN in our CI. :-)