linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xen-tip tree with the tip tree

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Message-ID: <20170403143825.GA1124@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:38:25 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Xen Devel <Xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xen-tip tree with the tip tree


* Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com> wrote:

> > So my suggestion would be: could you delay 75cd32d6093e for a week, and then 
> > merge it on top of a pulled in tip:x86/mm? I'll send that tree to Linus on the 
> > first day of the merge window so there shouldn't be any ordering problems.
> 
> Okay, that's rather easy to do.
> 
> Boris, I renamed the current Xen for-linus-4.12 branch for easy development of 
> other Xen patches to for-linus-4.12-pre.
> 
> I'll create another branch for-linus-4.12 based on the tip tree next week which 
> will be subject to the pull request for Linus. As soon as for-linus-4.12 is 
> ready the for-linus-4.12-pre branch shouldn't be used any longer.

I've created a tip:x86-mm-for-xen branch with the following head:

  7f75540ff2ca ("Merge tag 'v4.11-rc5' into x86/mm, to refresh the branch")

... which should be a reasonable base that includes a working version of the 
5-level pagetable changes.

Thanks,

	Ingo