linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: Minor structure layout changes

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Message-ID: <167961301405.2556397.3492995846054138772.b4-ty@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:37:46 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Mathias Krause <minipli@...ecurity.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: Minor structure layout changes

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:33:34 +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20230213163351.30704-1-minipli@grsecurity.net/
> 
> This used to be a more exhaustive patch set shrinking kvm_vcpu's size.
> But we concluded that this would be too fragile to maintain and would
> require a more radical layout change to group often used members
> together instead of chopping off individual padding bytes.
> 
> [...]

Applied patch 1 to kvm-x86 pmu, and patch 2 to generic, thanks!

[1/2] KVM: x86: Shrink struct kvm_pmu
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/12aad9164763
[2/2] KVM: Shrink struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/f530b531fb9e

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