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

From: Yury Norov
Date: Wed May 12 2021 - 10:04:23 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:04:48PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
>
> between commit:
>
> b18def121f07 ("bitmap_parse: Support 'all' semantics")
>
> from the rcu tree and commit:
>
> 458a0b70b496 ("bitmap_parse: support 'all' semantics")
>
> from the akpm-current tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I just use the latter 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.

The difference is that Paul's version replaced 'isolcpus=all' with
'rcu_nocb=all' in documentation, which is more correct in general.

Could you please stick with the Paul's version, and sorry for
confusion?

Thanks,
Yury