Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm tree with Linus' tree

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jan 17 2018 - 07:36:08 EST


On 17/01/2018 13:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 17/01/2018 12:45, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>> [This is the same conflict I reported the day before yesterday, but one
>>>> of the commits has moved and another that contributed has been dropped.]
>>>> diff --cc arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
>>>> index aa09559b2c0b,19f35be95f16..000000000000
>>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
>>>> @@@ -211,7 -209,6 +211,8 @@@
>>>> #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4FMAPS ( 7*32+17) /* AVX-512 Multiply Accumulation Single precision */
>>>>
>>>> #define X86_FEATURE_MBA ( 7*32+18) /* Memory Bandwidth Allocation */
>>>> +#define X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW ( 7*32+19) /* Fill RSB on context switches */
>>>> ++#define X86_FEATURE_SEV ( 7*32+20) /* AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization */
>>> Groan.....
>>>
>>
>> Brijesh,
>>
>> please send out again the (host-side) SEV series so that they are merged
>> through the TIP tree instead of kvm.git.
>>
>> Even though Boris did review it, there's just too much stuff in there
>> outside arch/x86/kvm.
>
> No. Keep it and lets next time coordinate the relevant bits and pieces
> better. I reserve that bit 20 and let Linus sort out the trivial conflict
> when merging the stuff.

Thank you. In the future we'll make sure to contact you before merging
this kind of change.

Thanks,

Paolo