linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with Linus' tree

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Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:14:26 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with Linus' tree

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:14:54AM -0400, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c between commit b77e70bf3535 ("x86, mce:
> Replace MCE_SELF_VECTOR by irq_work") from Linus' tree and commit
> ef14aea88fee ("x86: Call idle notifier after irq_enter()") from the rcu
> tree.
> 
> The commit in Linus' tree seem to superced the need for the rcu tree
> patch ... so I effectively dropped the rcu tree change to this file.

Yes, this is correct.

@Frederic, Paul: you guys could probably redo the patch without the
<arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c> hunk or leave it like this and let
Linus know about the conflict when sending the pull request during the
merge window...

Thanks.

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