linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] Introduce CET supervisor state support

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Message-ID: <a2639c00-ddbb-4e74-afd4-2ab74f6d3397@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 11:45:53 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
 seanjc@...gle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com
Cc: peterz@...radead.org, rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com,
 weijiang.yang@...el.com, john.allen@....com, bp@...en8.de,
 chang.seok.bae@...el.com, xin3.li@...el.com,
 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, Eric Biggers
 <ebiggers@...gle.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
 Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>, Mitchell Levy
 <levymitchell0@...il.com>, Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>,
 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>,
 Stanislav Spassov <stanspas@...zon.de>,
 Vignesh Balasubramanian <vigbalas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] Introduce CET supervisor state support

On 6/3/25 17:56, Chao Gao wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 08:10:03AM -0700, Chao Gao wrote:
>> Dear maintainers and reviewers,
>>
>> I kindly request your consideration for merging this series. Most of
>> patches have received Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags.
> Looks like we now have AMD RB and the other issue (reported by Sean) was
> pre-existing. x86 maintainers, please consider applying.

Hi Chao,

You might want to take a look at this:

https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-tip.html#merge-window

Specifically:

> Please do not expect patches to be reviewed or merged by tip
> maintainers around or during the merge window. The trees are closed
> to all but urgent fixes during this time. They reopen once the merge
> window closes and a new -rc1 kernel has been released.

In other words, your mail to ask us to consider applying is going to get
ignored for at least a week. Best case, it gets put on one of our lists
to go look at later.

My suggestion to you and all other submitters of non-critical fixes is
to spend the time between now and -rc1 reviewing *others* code and
making sure yours is 100% ready once -rc1 is released. The week after
the -rc1 release is a great time to send these emails, not now.