Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm-arm tree with the arm64 tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jan 22 2015 - 18:05:47 EST


Hi Mark,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:29:20 +0000 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 08:51:54AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22 2015 at 5:07:04 am GMT, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the kvm-arm tree got a conflict in
> > > arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h between commit 6e53031ed840 ("arm64:
> > > kvm: remove ESR_EL2_* macros") from the arm64 tree and commit
> > > 0d97f8848104 ("arm/arm64: KVM: add tracing support for arm64 exit
> > > handler") from the kvm-arm tree.
> > >
> > > I fixed it up (see below, but this probably requires more work) and can
> > > carry the fix as necessary (no action is required).
> >
> > Thanks for dealing with this. I think the following patch should be
> > applied on top of your resolution, making the new macro part of the
> > asm/esr.h file.
> >
> > Mark, Wei: does it match your expectations?
>
> The below patch looks fine to me.
>
> I suspected we mighh see something like this, so I kept my
> arm64/common-esr-macros branch [1] stable. Catalin merged this into the
> arm64 for-next/core branch.
>
> I guess the easiest way to solve the conflict would be if the kvm-arm
> tree also merged that and fixed the fallout there?

Yes, that would be a good resolution. In the mean time, I will apply
the merge fix patch to my tree (I will remove it when the above
resolution is done).
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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