Re: linux-next: manual merge of the btrfs tree with the fscache tree

From: Ira Weiny
Date: Thu Feb 11 2021 - 20:11:43 EST


On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:38:10AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the btrfs tree got a conflict in:
>
> lib/iov_iter.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 11432a3cc061 ("iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY")
>
> from the fscache tree and commit:
>
> 325a835476e3 ("iov_iter: Remove memzero_page() in favor of zero_user()")

I don't seem to have that commit after fetching linux-next? Should I have it?

This is where I fetched from.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git

After doing that I don't see the zero_user() as below.

All that said the resolution below seems correct.

Ira

>
> from the btrfs tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) 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.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
>
> diff --cc lib/iov_iter.c
> index 24413884b5ca,aa0d03b33a1e..000000000000
> --- a/lib/iov_iter.c
> +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
> @@@ -1048,9 -961,8 +1028,9 @@@ size_t iov_iter_zero(size_t bytes, stru
> return pipe_zero(bytes, i);
> iterate_and_advance(i, bytes, v,
> clear_user(v.iov_base, v.iov_len),
> - memzero_page(v.bv_page, v.bv_offset, v.bv_len),
> + zero_user(v.bv_page, v.bv_offset, v.bv_len),
> - memset(v.iov_base, 0, v.iov_len)
> + memset(v.iov_base, 0, v.iov_len),
> - memzero_page(v.bv_page, v.bv_offset, v.bv_len)
> ++ zero_user(v.bv_page, v.bv_offset, v.bv_len)
> )
>
> return bytes;