Re: linux-next: manual merge of the ftrace tree with the mm-nonmm-stable tree

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Mon Feb 09 2026 - 12:03:29 EST


On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 15:43:49 +0000 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Today's linux-next merge of the ftrace tree got a conflict in:
>
> kernel/trace/trace.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 86e685ff364394 ("tracing: remove size parameter in __trace_puts()")
>
> from the mm-nonmm-stable tree and commits:
>
> 27931ee8f45415 ("tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c")
> 0e730bc067e7a7 ("tracing: Move __trace_buffer_{un}lock_*() functions to trace.h")
>
> from the ftrace 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.

Yikes.

How about I drop "tracing: remove size parameter in __trace_puts()" and
"tracing: move tracing declarations from kernel.h to a dedicated
header"?