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

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:55:04AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   kernel/rcu/update.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   64e838679e14 ("rcu: Make SRCU mandatory")
> 
> from the printk tree and commit:
> 
>   0cd7e350abc4 ("rcu: Make SRCU mandatory")
> 
> from the rcu tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (I just used the latter - it kept the WARN_ON_ONCE) 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.
> 
> Maybe you could share a (non rebasing) topic branch?

Please accept my apologies for the hassle!

We are sharing a topic branch, but it recently changed and was therefore
rebased.  You saw -rcu providing the updated version to -next, but what
with timezones and all, printk() is still providing the old one.

With a little luck, this will straighten itself out soon.

							Thanx, Paul