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

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Mon Feb 06 2023 - 03:37:44 EST


On Mon, 06 Feb 2023 01:44:51 +0000,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the kvm-arm tree got a conflict in:
>
> arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S
>
> between commit:
>
> f122576f3533 ("arm64/sme: Enable host kernel to access ZT0")
>
> from the arm64 tree and commit:
>
> e2d4f5ae1771 ("KVM: arm64: Introduce finalise_el2_state macro")
>
> from the kvm-arm tree.
>
> I fixed it up (the code modified by the former was moved by the latter,
> so I applied the following merge fix patch) 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.
>
> I hope I got this right :-)

Thanks for giving it a go!

Catalin, we'll probably end-up taking the arm64/for-next/tpidr2 branch
into the kvmarm tree in order to minimise the damage.

Please shout if you want to solve this the other way around (taking
the finalise_el2_state refactoring in the arm64 tree).

M.

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