On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:02:20 +0000,
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:02:37 +0000
> Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The growing set of features supported by the hypervisor in protected
> > mode necessitates debugging and profiling tools. Tracefs is the
> > ideal candidate for this task:
> >
> > * It is simple to use and to script.
> >
> > * It is supported by various tools, from the trace-cmd CLI to the
> > Android web-based perfetto.
> >
> > * The ring-buffer, where are stored trace events consists of linked
> > pages, making it an ideal structure for sharing between kernel and
> > hypervisor.
> >
> > This series first introduces a new generic way of creating remote events and
> > remote buffers. Then it adds support to the pKVM hypervisor.
> >
>
> So I finished my review of all the tracing patches, but I just realized
> that there's likely going to be some major conflicts with changes in the
> tracing tree that's going to happen against this series.
>
> To solve that, after -rc2 comes out, I'll apply the tracing portion of this
> series to a branch in my tree directly on top of -rc2 and I will then use
> that to base my changes for the next merge window.
>
> Then the arm/kvm folks could start with that branch and add the arm/KVM
> portion of this series on top of it. This will prevent major merge
> conflicts in linux-next.
>
> Does that sound OK?
That works. Just send us a link to the branch after -rc2 and we'll get
that sorted.
Thanks,
M.
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