Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xen-tip tree with the tip tree
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 03 2017 - 10:38:36 EST
* Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So my suggestion would be: could you delay 75cd32d6093e for a week, and then
> > merge it on top of a pulled in tip:x86/mm? I'll send that tree to Linus on the
> > first day of the merge window so there shouldn't be any ordering problems.
>
> Okay, that's rather easy to do.
>
> Boris, I renamed the current Xen for-linus-4.12 branch for easy development of
> other Xen patches to for-linus-4.12-pre.
>
> I'll create another branch for-linus-4.12 based on the tip tree next week which
> will be subject to the pull request for Linus. As soon as for-linus-4.12 is
> ready the for-linus-4.12-pre branch shouldn't be used any longer.
I've created a tip:x86-mm-for-xen branch with the following head:
7f75540ff2ca ("Merge tag 'v4.11-rc5' into x86/mm, to refresh the branch")
... which should be a reasonable base that includes a working version of the
5-level pagetable changes.
Thanks,
Ingo