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

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 00:51:44 EST


Hi all,

On Tue, 19 May 2020 17:23:16 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in:
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 116ac378bb3f ("powerpc/64s: machine check interrupt update NMI accounting")
>
> from the powerpc tree and commit:
>
> 187416eeb388 ("hardirq/nmi: Allow nested nmi_enter()")
>
> from the rcu tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I used the powerpc tree version for now) 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.

This is now a conflict between the powerpc commit and commit

69ea03b56ed2 ("hardirq/nmi: Allow nested nmi_enter()")

from the tip tree. I assume that the rcu and tip trees are sharing
some patches (but not commits) :-(

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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