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

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Oct 09 2014 - 09:15:32 EST


On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 03:13:31PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 03:50:18PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the percpu tree got a conflict in
> > kernel/irq_work.c between commit 76a33061b932 ("irq_work: Force raised
> > irq work to run on irq work interrupt") from the tip tree and commit
> > 22127e93c587 ("time: Replace __get_cpu_var uses") from the percpu tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action
> > is required).
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > diff --cc kernel/irq_work.c
> > index 385b85aded19,345d19edcdae..000000000000
> > --- a/kernel/irq_work.c
> > +++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
> > @@@ -113,12 -113,10 +113,12 @@@ bool irq_work_needs_cpu(void
> > {
> > struct llist_head *raised, *lazy;
> >
> > - raised = &__get_cpu_var(raised_list);
> > - lazy = &__get_cpu_var(lazy_list);
> > + raised = this_cpu_ptr(&raised_list);
> > + lazy = this_cpu_ptr(&lazy_list);
>
> Ah thanks! The conflict is compile time rather than merge time, thanks
> for spotting it!
>
> Should we notify Linus about it? That's certainly something that should
> be applied with the percpu tree.

I'm holding back percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops till other trees are
merged and collecting the conflicts. I'll list them when sending the
pull request.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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