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Message-ID: <20160108090005-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:05:57 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the vhost
tree
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:50:11PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 08:46:15 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:59:08PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
> > >
> > > mm/balloon_compaction.c
> > >
> > > between commit:
> > >
> > > 0b5ffdb4f7c6 ("balloon: fix page list locking")
> > >
> > > from the vhost tree and commit:
> > >
> > > 0c983ec0c078 ("virtio_balloon: fix race between migration and ballooning")
> > >
> > > from the akpm-current tree.
> > >
> > > I fixed it up (I think that the former is a superset of the latter, so
> > > I used that, completely reversing the latter patch) and can carry the
> > > fix as necessary (no action is required).
> >
> > Oops, it isn't.
> >
> > Andrew, your tree seems to still carry original patch by Minchan Kim:
> >
> > 0c983ec0c078ed5d5c219cf97af06364e7a8e19f
> >
> > I reported on list that it has a deadlock:
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/159208
> >
> > I think it should be reverted and my patch applied - it's in my tree
> > but if you prefer it in yours instead, please let me know.
>
> That is what I effectively did in today's tree.
Ouch, looks like I can't read. Somehow I misread that and assumed the
reverse, fetched next-20160107 and saw the context there is wrong, but I
did not dig deeper. It seems that I was just hasty, and todays tree
isn't tagged yet.
Thanks!
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@...b.auug.org.au
> \
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