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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:44:51PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   kernel/sched/fair.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   0ccb977f4c80 ("sched/fair: Explicitly generate __update_load_avg() instances")
> 
> from the tip tree and patch:
> 
>    "kernel/sched/fair.c: uninline __update_load_avg()"
> 
> from the akpm tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (see below) 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.

Argh!

Andrew, please drop that patch. And the x86 out-of-line of __atomic_add_unless().