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

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Sep 05 2012 - 12:40:04 EST


On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:59:47PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in
> kernel/sched/core.c between commit f319da0c6894 ("sched: Fix load avg vs
> cpu-hotplug") from the tip tree and commit ead504e5600e ("sched: Fix load
> avg vs cpu-hotplug") from the rcu tree.
>
> These are 2 slightly different versions of the same patch :-( Same author
> time, different commit times ... The rcu tree version contains this
> extra bit in the commit message:
>
> " [ paulmck: Move call to calc_load_migration to CPU_DEAD to avoid
> miscounting noted by Rakib. ]"
>
> So I used it. Let me know if this is not correct.

My guess is that Peter Zijlstra will replace my version at some point,
at which point I will drop mine. But from what I can see, the version
currently in -tip is the older version, so I will keep mine until
-tip updates.

Thanx, Paul

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