Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the tip tree

Andrew Morton
2025-03-11T09:02:41Z

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:08:47 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The following commits are also in the mm tree as different commits
> (but the same patches):
>
> 0b3bc3354eb9 ("arm64: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> 127b0e05c166 ("vdso: Rename included Makefile")
> 30533a55ec8e ("parisc: Remove unused symbol vdso_data")
> 31e9fa2ba9ad ("arm: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> 365841e1557a ("vdso: Add generic architecture-specific data storage")
> 3ef32d90cdaa ("x86/vdso: Fix latent bug in vclock_pages calculation")
> 46fe55b204bf ("riscv: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> 51d6ca373f45 ("vdso: Add generic random data storage")
> 5b47aba85810 ("vdso: Introduce vdso/align.h")
> 69896119dc9d ("MIPS: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> 9729dceab17b ("x86/vdso/vdso2c: Remove page handling")
> 998a8a260819 ("vdso: Remove remnants of architecture-specific random state storage")
> ac1a42f4e4e2 ("vdso: Remove remnants of architecture-specific time storage")
> d2862bb9d9ca ("LoongArch: vDSO: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> dafde29605eb ("x86/vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> df7fcbefa710 ("vdso: Add generic time data storage")
>
> These are causing the following conflicts:
>
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_gettim
> ofday.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in arch/s390/kernel/time.c
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in include/asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in include/vdso/datapage.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in include/vdso/helpers.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in kernel/time/namespace.c
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in kernel/time/vsyscall.c
> CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in lib/vdso/datastore.c
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c

Yup, thanks. I trust it's not too much effort to simply skip the
mm.git copies?

There's presumably a better way of doing this, but it's really the
first time it has happened in N years so it isn't obviously worth
investing in setting something up.