Re: [patch V6 00/37] x86/entry: Rework leftovers and merge plan

[Joel Fernandes]

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:18:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 01:45:47AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> [ . . . ]
> 
> >   - noinstr-rcu-nmi-2020-05-15
> > 
> >     Based on the core/rcu branch in the tip tree. It has merged in
> >     noinstr-lds-2020-05-15 and contains the nmi_enter/exit() changes along
> >     with the noinstr section changes on top.
> > 
> >     This tag is intended to be pulled by Paul into his rcu/next branch so
> >     he can sort the conflicts and base further work on top.
> 
> And this sorting process is now allegedly complete and available on the
> -rcu tree's "dev" branch.  As you might have guessed, the major source
> of conflicts were with Joel's patches, including one conflict that was
> invisible to "git rebase":
> 
> 1b2530e7d0c3 ("Revert b8c17e6664c4 ("rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter")
> 03f31532d0ce ("rcu/tree: Add better tracing for dyntick-idle")
> a309d5ce2335 ("rcu/tree: Clean up dynticks counter usage")
> 5c6e734fbaeb ("rcu/tree: Remove dynticks_nmi_nesting counter")
> 
> This passes modest rcutorture testing.  So far, so good!  ;-)

Also I double checked these patches in the rcu/dev branch. It looks good to
me, thanks for resolving the conflicts!!

 - Joel