From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: linux-next: question about the luto-misc tree Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:17:44 -0800 Message-ID: <20141214181744.GF5310@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20141214175747.2e6c506e@canb.auug.org.au> <20141214120318.GA5310@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20141214173715.GB5310@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:47767 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbaLNSRv (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:17:51 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e35.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:17:51 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Stephen Rothwell , "linux-next@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:41:04AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Paul E. McKenney > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 08:29:33AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Paul E. McKenney > >> wrote: > >> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:26:36PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> >> On Dec 13, 2014 10:58 PM, "Stephen Rothwell" wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > Hi Andy, > >> >> > > >> >> > The luto-misc tree seems to have a whole series of commits in it that > >> >> > have just bee removed from the rcu tree ... You really have to be very > >> >> > careful if you base your work on a tree that is regularly rebased. > >> >> > >> >> Hmm. They were there a couple days ago. Paul, what should I do about > >> >> this? I only need the one NMI nesting change for the stuff in > >> >> luto/next. > >> >> > >> >> > I also wonder if the other commits in that tree are destined for > >> >> > v3.19? If they are for v3.20, then they should not be in linux-next > >> >> > until after v3.19-rc1 has been released. > >> >> > >> >> They're for 3.20. I'll drop the whole series from the next branch for now. > >> > > >> > You mean the NMI nesting change below, correct? One approach would be > >> > to include the branch rcu/dev from my -rcu tree. Would that work for you? > >> > >> That would work. > >> > >> The problem is that, if you rebase again and I don't notice, then > >> it'll generate a pile of conflicts. Is there someway that I can flag > >> my next tree as depending on a certain commi existing in another tree > >> so that the scripts that generate linux-next will ignore it if the > >> base commit goes away? > > > > The commits would still stick around because I keep date-encoded branches. > > But just to make things easier, I created a andy.2014.11.21a branch that > > points to the current commit and will stay there. Please let me know how > > it goes. > > That's the same commit that's in rcu/dev and was in luto/next, I > think. Is the issue just that you pulled the whole thing from > whichever linux-rcu branch is in -next, but I still had it, so it > caused a problem? I still have the commit. All I did was move the rcu/next branch that Stephen pulls from. > In any case, I'll wait for 3.19-rc1 before re-adding any of this. That does sound simpler, as I will make this commit available to -next at that point. ;-) Thanx, Paul