linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm-arm tree with the arm64 tree

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Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 09:08:03 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Christoffer Dall <cdall@...columbia.edu>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm-arm tree with the arm64 tree

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 08:06:07AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, 04 May 2022 05:35:29 +0100,
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> > [1  <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the kvm-arm tree got a conflict in:
> > 
> >   arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   0b12620fddb8 ("KVM: arm64: Treat ESR_EL2 as a 64-bit register")
> > 
> > from the arm64 tree and commits:
> > 
> >   e65197666773 ("KVM: arm64: Wire up CP15 feature registers to their AArch64 equivalents")
> >   9369bc5c5e35 ("KVM: arm64: Plumb cp10 ID traps through the AArch64 sysreg handler")
> > 
> > from the kvm-arm 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.
> 
> Thanks Stephen.
> 
> I've added a fix to address the 'u32 esr' instances that were
> introduced by Oliver's series. Catalin, do you want me to merge the
> ESR series in the kvm-arm tree in order to avoid the minor conflict?

You could merge the arm64 for-next/esr-elx-64-bit branch, it already has
a couple of KVM patches.

-- 
Catalin