linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm tree with Linus' tree

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:35:29 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm tree with Linus' tree

On 29/01/2018 05:02, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:53:26 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:23:17 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:  
>>>> No. Keep it and lets next time coordinate the relevant bits and pieces
>>>> better. I reserve that bit 20 and let Linus sort out the trivial conflict
>>>> when merging the stuff.  
>>>
>>> I just picked that bit 20 when resolving the conflict.  The original patch used
>>> bit 11, so the resolution could use any other sensible bit.  
>>
>> 20 is fine :)
> 
> So maybe this (X86_FEATURE_SEV) should be fixed up to use "( 7*32+20)" in
> the kvm tree?  (Just a followup patch changing the value/position in the
> file would be fine).

Yes, we'll fix this and the other conflicts with Linus's tree before
sending out the pull request.

Paolo