From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:14:17 +0000 (+0200) Subject: KVM: Documentation: minimal updates to review-checklist.rst X-Git-Tag: v6.16-rc7~23^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83131d84694a85627f595b5ecd480f6ecb98b5aa;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git KVM: Documentation: minimal updates to review-checklist.rst While the file could stand a larger update, these are the bare minimum changes needed to make it more widely applicable. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst index dc01aea4057b..7eb9974c676d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Review checklist for kvm patches 1. The patch must follow Documentation/process/coding-style.rst and Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. -2. Patches should be against kvm.git master branch. +2. Patches should be against kvm.git master or next branches. 3. If the patch introduces or modifies a new userspace API: - the API must be documented in Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ Review checklist for kvm patches 5. New features must default to off (userspace should explicitly request them). Performance improvements can and should default to on. -6. New cpu features should be exposed via KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2 +6. New cpu features should be exposed via KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2, + or its equivalent for non-x86 architectures 7. Emulator changes should be accompanied by unit tests for qemu-kvm.git kvm/test directory.