Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the counters tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:53:10 +1100

Hi all,

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:48:21 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   lib/Makefile
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   37a0dbf631f6 ("counters: Introduce counter_atomic* counters")
> 
> from the counters tree and commit:
> 
>   ed7f5253e189 ("mm/page_alloc.c: fix freeing non-compound pages")
> 
> from the akpm-current 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.
> 
> diff --cc lib/Makefile
> index 95b357bb5f3c,1c7577b2e86a..000000000000
> --- a/lib/Makefile
> +++ b/lib/Makefile
> @@@ -99,7 -101,7 +101,8 @@@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV) += tes
>   obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_MEMINIT) += test_meminit.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_LOCKUP) += test_lockup.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_HMM) += test_hmm.o
>  +obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_COUNTERS) += test_counters.o
> + obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_FREE_PAGES) += test_free_pages.o
>   
>   #
>   # CFLAGS for compiling floating point code inside the kernel. x86/Makefile turns

This is now a conflict between the counters tree and Linus' tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell