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

[Christoffer Dall]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Fri, Aug 25 2017 at  2:57:21 pm BST, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the kvm-arm tree got a conflict in:
>>
>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h
>>
>> between commit:
>>
>>   1f9b8936f36f ("arm64: Decode information from ESR upon mem faults")
>>
>> from the arm64 tree and commit:
>>
>>   c5511c3c068c ("KVM: arm/arm64: Fix guest external abort matching")
>>
>> from the kvm-arm tree.
>>
>> I fixed it up (I used the former 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.
>
> Thanks for that, result looking good.
>
> Christoffer: I think we could simply drop the hunk touching esr.h from
> James' patch. After all, even if nothing is using it, this bit still
> exists in the ESR register, and there is little gain in dropping its
> definition. This would solve the conflict nicely...
>

Yes, I have updated the branch accordingly and added my signed-off-by as well.

Thanks,
-Christoffer