Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] linkage: better symbol aliasing

[Will Deacon]

Hi Peter,

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 11:58:31AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:22:25PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Catalin, Will, Peter: I think this is ready now and would like to get it
> > queued, but it looks like this may (trivially) conflict with other bits
> > we'll want to queue in either the arm64 tree (Joey's string routine
> > changes [4]), or tip tree (Peter's IBT series).
> > 
> > I assume the best thing to do would be to have a stable branch merged in
> > both of those. I've tagged this such that it can be pulled (details
> > below); Peter also suggested he could make a stable branch in the tip
> > tree. Any preference?
> 
> No real preference, The conflicts on my end are really rather trivial
> IIRC, but they're a nice clean-up.
> 
> If I don't take then, feel free to add:
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Mark mentioned yesterday that this series will conflict with some pending
rework to the arm64 string routines [1], so we probably want a shared
branch to handle the fallout.

Do you plan to queue this someplace in -tip that I can pull from, or
shall I create a stable branch on the arm64 side?

Cheers,

Will

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215170723.21266-1-joey.gouly@xxxxxxx