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

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed May 04 2022 - 03:06:13 EST


On Wed, 04 May 2022 05:35:29 +0100,
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:
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> arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
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> between commit:
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> 0b12620fddb8 ("KVM: arm64: Treat ESR_EL2 as a 64-bit register")
>
> from the arm64 tree and commits:
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> e65197666773 ("KVM: arm64: Wire up CP15 feature registers to their AArch64 equivalents")
> 9369bc5c5e35 ("KVM: arm64: Plumb cp10 ID traps through the AArch64 sysreg handler")
>
> from the kvm-arm tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) 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.

Thanks Stephen.

I've added a fix to address the 'u32 esr' instances that were
introduced by Oliver's series. Catalin, do you want me to merge the
ESR series in the kvm-arm tree in order to avoid the minor conflict?

Cheers,

M.

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