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Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:16:18 +0200
From:   Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>,
        David Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the gfs2 and xfs trees

Hi Stephen,

On 12 July 2018 at 06:41, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:30:07 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> this is what I'm seeing (git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
>> --graph ^origin/master gfs2/for-next):
>>
>> * f79caf101801 (gfs2/for-next) gfs2: use iomap_readpage for blocksize
>> == PAGE_SIZE
>> * af58827ee500 gfs2: Use iomap for stuffed direct I/O reads
>> *   c38e838abe42 Merge branch 'iomap-4.19-merge' into linux-gfs2/for-next
>> |\
>> | * 806a1477b10a (xfs/iomap-4.19-merge) iomap: add inline data support
>> to iomap_readpage_actor
>> | * ec181f6782d8 iomap: support direct I/O to inline data
>> | * 09230435dffd iomap: refactor iomap_dio_actor
>> | * c03cea42149d iomap: add initial support for writes without buffer heads
>> | * 72b4daa24129 iomap: add an iomap-based readpage and readpages implementation
>> * | 9ab5aa4f4e10 gfs2: fallocate_chunk: Always initialize struct iomap
>> * | 2e2834ef1797 GFS2: Fix recovery issues for spectators
>> * |   5db0147b887e Merge branch 'iomap-write' into linux-gfs2/for-next
>> |\ \
>> | * | 025d0e7f73c6 (gfs2/iomap-write) gfs2: Remove gfs2_write_{begin,end}
>> | * | 967bcc91b044 gfs2: iomap direct I/O support
>> | * | bcfe94139a45 gfs2: gfs2_extent_length cleanup
>> | * | 64bc06bb32ee gfs2: iomap buffered write support
>> | * | d505a96a3b16 gfs2: Further iomap cleanups
>> | |/
>> | * e184fde6f3f5 iomap: add private pointer to struct iomap
>> | * 63899c6f8851 iomap: add a page_done callback
>> | * 19e0c58f6552 iomap: generic inline data handling
>> | * ebf00be37de3 iomap: complete partial direct I/O writes synchronously
>> | * 3d7b6b21f6c5 iomap: mark newly allocated buffer heads as new
>> | * a6d639da63ae fs: factor out a __generic_write_end helper
>> * 3beacef8093b fs: gfs2: Adding new return type vm_fault_t
>> * d80ff78468e4 gfs2: using posix_acl_xattr_size instead of posix_acl_to_xattr
>> * e904f3d486f9 gfs2: Don't reject a supposedly full bitmap if we have
>> blocks reserved
>> * d1475c07f7ce GFS2: rgrp free blocks used incorrectly
>> * b7eba890a228 gfs2: Eliminate redundant ip->i_rgd
>> * 03f8c41c73da gfs2: Stop messing with ip->i_rgd in the rlist code
>> * ee9c7f9ae3d4 gfs2: call ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64() directly
>> * 00251a16d7f9 gfs2: Minor clarification to __gfs2_punch_hole
>> * 9e1a9ecd13b9 gfs2: Don't withdraw under a spin lock
>> * f85c10e24ab9 gfs2: eliminate rs_inum and reduce the size of gfs2 inodes
>>
>> Commit e184fde6f3f5 "iomap: add private pointer to struct iomap" is on
>> xfs/iomap-4.19-merge. That was my initial merge from
>> xfs/iomap-4.19-merge, but it was a fast-forward so there is no merge
>> commit. I've then merged our iomap-write branch into for-next, with
>> two additional commits on top. Then comes the rest of
>> xfs/iomap-4.19-merge (that branch has moved ahead in the meantime),
>> again with two more commits on top.
>>
>> There are no rebased commits, you're looking at the exact same commits.
>
> The problem is that commits
>
>   a6d639da63ae fs: factor out a __generic_write_end helper
>
> to
>
>   806a1477b10a (xfs/iomap-4.19-merge) iomap: add inline data support
>
> have been rebased in the xfs tree from a base of v4.18-rc1 to
> v4.18-rc4, so that those patches now appear twice in linux-next where I
> have merged the gfs2 tree and the xfs tree.

Ah, I see now. It's xfs/for-next that contains those rebased commits
from xfs/iomap-4.19-merge.

> This has caused a few
> conflicts today as there are more changes to the same files affected by
> those commits in the xfs tree. to iomap_readpage_actor
>
> What should have happened is that those commits should not have been
> rebased, so either the xfs tree needs rebuilding to use the old
> commits, or your tree needs to be rebuilt using the new commits from
> the xfs tree.  This is why we do not like the rebasing of published
> trees (especially when a subset of the tree is shared with other
> developers).
>
> Also, if you are going to merge (part of) another tree you need to make
> sure that the other maintainer will not do a rebase of it (I assume
> that this was probably talked about).

Indeed, the idea of setting up xfs/iomap-4.19-merge was to have a
common base that xfs/for-next and gfs2/for-next could both merge from.
Darrick, could you please fix xfs/for-next?

Thanks a lot,
Andreas

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