linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the slab tree with the mm-unstable tree

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Message-Id: <20250904143918.dc01310952fe5b3a23deef77@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:39:18 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, "Liam R. Howlett"
 <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Next Mailing List
 <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>, Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@...o.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the slab tree with the mm-unstable
 tree

On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 10:39:47 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:

> On 9/4/25 08:29, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > FIXME: Add owner of second tree to To:
> >        Add author(s)/SOB of conflicting commits.
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the slab tree got a conflict in:
> > 
> >   tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   da018ebb7157 ("tools/testing/vma: clean up stubs in vma_internal.h")
> 
> We can solve it by me taking this and
> 
>   65d011b2bc05 ("maple_tree: remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN")
> 
> from the other thread and Andrew dropping them in mm-unstable. I tried to
> rebase mm-unstable locally while dropping those and there were no conflicts
> and they are self-contained cleanups. AFAIR Andrew was fine with such
> resolutions in the past.

Yep, I generally just drop things when these conflicts occur.