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

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 24 2020 - 23:18:11 EST


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 02:08:45PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got conflicts in:
>
> lib/Kconfig.kcsan
> kernel/kcsan/report.c
> kernel/kcsan/kcsan.h
> kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c
> kernel/kcsan/core.c
> kernel/kcsan/atomic.h
> include/linux/kcsan-checks.h
>
> between a series of commits from the tip tree and the same series of
> patches (but different commits) in the rcu tre (followed by some more
> changes in the rcu tree).
>
> I fixed it up (I just used the rcu tree versions of these files) 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.
>
> Please clean up the rcu tree WRT the tip tree.

Will do, and apologies for the hassle!

Thanx, Paul