Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the tip tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jul 26 2012 - 03:03:15 EST


Hi all,

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:35:03 +0200 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:10:44AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in
> > > mm/migrate.c between the tip tree and commit "mm: memcg: fix
> > > compaction/migration failing due to memcg limits" from the
> > > akpm tree.
> > >
> > > The commit 4783af477d3d ("mm: Migrate misplaced page") was
> > > removed (among several others) from the tip tree since
> > > yesterday (and thus linux-next) so the above akpm tree patch
> > > no longer applies.
> > >
> > > I have dropped this patch form the akpm tree (and the following patches
> > > as well:
> > > mm-memcg-fix-compaction-migration-failing-due-to-memcg-limits-checkpatch-fixes
> > > mm: memcg: push down PageSwapCache check into uncharge entry functions
> > > mm: memcg: only check for PageSwapCache when uncharging anon
> > > mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
> > > mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
> > > )
> > >
> > > Hopefully this doesn't cause other problems. I guess that
> > > they will need rebasing depending on what gets merged via the
> > > tip tree.
> >
> > Andrew, sorry about this last minute fallout: I felt that
> > sched/numa was still not fully cooked and did not want to hold
> > up the rest of the scheduler tree on that - nor did I want to
> > send an uncooked tree to Linus.
> >
> > PeterZ posted another series of sched/numa patches two days ago
> > - once that is ready (probably after the merge window) it will
> > all reappear again, in a slightly different form. I could stick
> > the mm/ bits into a separate tree to make it easier for you.
>
> As this is unlikely to reappear in this merge window, the conflict
> resolution is quite simple. All that's needed is remove the 3 hunks
> from my patch that converted a user in Peter's patch to a new API. I
> can resend the series if needed, but it's probably easier to just
> remove the hunks against mm/migrate.c::migrate_misplaced_page():

OK, so I have readded those patches to linux-next today with the
appropriate hunks removed. Except for
mm-memcg-fix-compaction-migration-failing-due-to-memcg-limits-checkpatch-fixes
which only touched the part of the file that no longer exists.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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