linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for v4.9-rc1

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Message-ID: <aeb67611-3771-ff0d-6be7-2fddeba1e3da@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:34:37 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for v4.9-rc1



On 06/10/2016 13:16, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> Linus,
> 
> this merge needs one manual conflict resolution that is foretold in
> 3d9cd95f90b2 ("ARM: gic-v3: Work around definition of gic_write_bpr1").
> The commit says that the conflict is "obvious to resolve", but
> linux-next got it wrong, so I have pasted the correct resolution at the
> bottom -- inline assembly and surrounding #if should be removed, because
> the #if would always select the write_sysreg() branch.

This is nowhere as bad as 4.8, but I'd like to point out the right way to
do it: prepare a topic branch with the arch/arm/include/asm patches, and merge
it into both the irqchip and KVM-ARM trees.  You can find three examples in this
merge window alone:

Paolo Bonzini (12):
      Merge branch 'x86/amd-avic' of git://git.kernel.org/.../joro/iommu into HEAD

Paul Mackerras (8):
      Merge branch 'kvm-ppc-infrastructure' into kvm-ppc-next

Christian Borntraeger (1):
      Merge remote-tracking branch 'kvms390/s390forkvm' into kvms390next

So we can do better in 4.10. :)

Paolo