Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with the tip tree
From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Mar 25 2020 - 17:31:41 EST
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 08:18:09PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 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!
And done. The rcu/next branch should now be fully compatible with
tip/master.
Thanx, Paul