[PULL,00/23] Misc patches for 2024-10-04

The following changes since commit 718780d20470c66a3a36d036b29148d5809dc855:

  Merge tag 'pull-nvme-20241001' of https://gitlab.com/birkelund/qemu into staging (2024-10-01 11:34:07 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream

for you to fetch changes up to 7cca79fa52128054b02ecbea249aa51e1916ba72:

  qom: update object_resolve_path*() documentation (2024-10-03 22:04:24 +0200)

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* pc: Add a description for the i8042 property
* kvm: support for nested FRED
* tests/unit: fix warning when compiling test-nested-aio-poll with LTO
* kvm: refactoring of VM creation
* target/i386: expose IBPB-BRTYPE and SBPB CPUID bits to the guest
* hw/char: clean up serial
* remove virtfs-proxy-helper
* target/i386/kvm: Report which action failed in kvm_arch_put/get_registers
* qom: improvements to object_resolve_path*()

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Ani Sinha (6):
      kvm/i386: make kvm_filter_msr() and related definitions private to kvm module
      kvm/i386: fix return values of is_host_cpu_intel()
      kvm: replace fprintf with error_report()/printf() in kvm_init()
      kvm/i386: refactor kvm_arch_init and split it into smaller functions
      kvm: refactor core virtual machine creation into its own function
      accel/kvm: refactor dirty ring setup

Bernhard Beschow (3):
      hw: Remove unused inclusion of hw/char/serial.h
      hw/char/serial.h: Extract serial-isa.h
      hw/char: Extract serial-mm

Fabiano Rosas (1):
      target/i386: Expose IBPB-BRTYPE and SBPB CPUID bits to the guest

Julia Suvorova (2):
      kvm: Allow kvm_arch_get/put_registers to accept Error**
      target/i386/kvm: Report which action failed in kvm_arch_put/get_registers

Kamil Szczęk (1):
      hw/i386/pc: Add a description for the i8042 property

Lei Wang (1):
      target/i386: Raise the highest index value used for any VMCS encoding

Marc-André Lureau (3):
      qom: rename object_resolve_path_type() "ambiguousp"
      qom: set *ambiguous on all paths
      qom: update object_resolve_path*() documentation

Paolo Bonzini (4):
      tests/unit: remove block layer code from test-nested-aio-poll
      kvm/i386: replace identity_base variable with a constant
      9p: remove 'proxy' filesystem backend driver
      minikconf: print error entirely on stderr

Xin Li (Intel) (2):
      target/i386: Delete duplicated macro definition CR4_FRED_MASK
      target/i386: Add VMX control bits for nested FRED support

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