linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQVN9ZEh_UGPZ9HqHXVopHEpxsSsqx1U=0bGLXyR5iAYGw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:44:56 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 00/31] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading
 ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:48:20PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-x86-boot
>>
>> and it is on top of linus's tree 2013-01-03
>> plus tip:x86/mm, tip:x86/mm2
>
> This is causing a merge conflict when merging tip:x86/mm2
> after having merged tip:x86/mm ontop of -rc2+ (today's Linus'
> tree) in mm/nobootmem.c. free_all_bootmem_node has gained a
> reset_node_lowmem_managed_pages() call which got added in
> 9feedc9d831e18ae6d0d15aa562e5e46ba53647b.
>
> Now, you have a patch in tip:x86/mm2 which kills that
> free_all_bootmem_node() function but the commit above adds that
> reset_node_lowmem_managed_pages() call to it.
>
> A proper merge conflict resolve would need to be added to the pull
> request which sends tip:x86/mm2 upstream and then you'd need to rebase
> your stuff ontop. Or something better which I'm not thinking of right
> now...

Peter or Linus could figure it out.
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