netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] bpf: add two helpers to read perf event enabled/running time

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Message-ID: <59D60B3D.4040702@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:36:45 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     yhs@...com, rostedt@...dmis.org, ast@...com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] bpf: add two helpers to read perf event
 enabled/running time

On 10/05/2017 10:34 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 04:00:56PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
>> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 15:42:14 -0700
>>
>>> [Dave, Peter,
>>>
>>>   Previous communcation shows that this patch may potentially have
>>>   merge conflict with upcoming tip changes in the next merge window.
>>>
>>>   Could you advise how this patch should proceed?
>>>
>>>   Thanks!
>>> ]
>>
>> Indeed, Peter how do you want to handle this?
>
> I think Alexei suggested that we merge the one patch in two branches and
> let git sort it out. I _think_ I've done something similar before and it
> worked.

Sounds good, we did something like this in the past as well I recall,
so lets make first patch isolated to only touch perf event area so
it can go into both trees, and the remaining pieces only for BPF bits
for net-next.