linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the pidfd tree with the powerpc-fixes tree

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:42:45 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the pidfd tree with the powerpc-fixes tree

Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:17:30PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Today's linux-next merge of the pidfd tree got a conflict in:
>> >
>> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
>> >
>> > between commit:
>> >
>> >   35e32a6cb5f6 ("powerpc/syscalls: Split SPU-ness out of ABI")
>> >
>> > from the powerpc-fixes tree and commit:
>> >
>> >   9b4feb630e8e ("arch: wire-up close_range()")
>> >
>> > from the pidfd tree.
>> >
>> > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
>> > is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
>> > conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
>> > is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider cooperating
>> > with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
>> > complex conflicts.
...
>> 
>> I'm planning to send those changes to Linus for rc2, so the conflict
>> will then be vs mainline. But I guess it's pretty trivial so it doesn't
>> really matter.
>
> close_range() is targeted for the v5.9 merge window. I always do
> test-merges with mainline at the time I'm creating a pr and I'll just
> mention to Linus that there's conflict with ppc. :)

I ended up dropping the patch, so there shouldn't be a conflict anymore.

cheers