Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with the tip tree

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 20:31:54 EST


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 05:27:26PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:50:35AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in:
> >
> > kernel/cpu.c
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> > 45178ac0cea8 ("cpu/hotplug, stop_machine: Fix stop_machine vs hotplug order")
> >
> > from the tip tree and commit:
> >
> > d62c673f4cfc ("cpu/hotplug, stop_machine: Fix stop_machine vs hotplug order")
> >
> > from the rcu tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (I just used the tip tree version) and can carry the fix
> > as necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but
> > any non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer
> > when your tree is submitted for merging. You may also want to consider
> > cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any
> > particularly complex conflicts.
>
> I will pull this one out of the set that I mark for -next. That way
> I can test and you can avoid at least this one conflict. ;-)

Heh. And the reason that it conflicts is that I fixed at least one
spelling error... ;-)

Still, the one in tip is the official one, so I will proceed as planned.

Thanx, Paul