On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 08:51:19AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
>
>
> Am 11.02.21 um 18:22 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 4:27 PM Christian König
> > <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 11.02.21 um 16:02 schrieb Jani Nikula:
> > > > On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > >
> > > > > I had a conflict this morning in the ttm pool while pushing an important
> > > > > fix to drm-misc-fixes.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not 100% sure if I correctly fixed up drm-tip. How can this be
> > > > > double checked? And how can it be fixed if the merge has gone bad?
> > > > I'm afraid there's a problem; bb52cb0dec8d ("drm/ttm: make the pool
> > > > shrinker lock a mutex") in upstream and drm-misc-fixes creates a silent
> > > > conflict with ba051901d10f ("drm/ttm: add a debugfs file for the global
> > > > page pools") in drm-misc-next, causing the latter to use
> > > > spin_lock/unlock on a mutex.
> > > >
> > > > But while you hit a conflict, it does look like the conflict breaking
> > > > the build is silent, AFAICT the spinlock part does not conflict. So a
> > > > fixup patch in drm-rerere is probably needed until there are some
> > > > backmerges.
> > > Well exactly that's the issue. I've already had a fixup in drm-rerere
> > > for this.
> > >
> > > But today I've pushed another fix to drm-misc-fixes which also conflicts
> > > with ba051901d10f ("drm/ttm: add a debugfs file for the global page pools").
> > >
> > > I've fixed this up as well and committed the solution. But dim then
> > > complained that the original fixup is now not applicable any more (which
> > > is true as far as I know).
> > >
> > > This somehow went away when I said that dim should assume patch
> > > reversal, but I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do.
> > Nothing, it's all still broken. You need to delete the now unecessary
> > fixup. As a rule, when rebuilding drm-tip failed always try again to
> > confirm that what you've done actually fixed things (since sometimes
> > git can also not remember where to apply the resolution for some odd
> > reasons).
>
> My question is how to I remove the fixup now?
>
> E.g. where can I find it?
In the rerere branch under the fixup/ directory. That's also the place
where rerere solutions are carried around. I guess docs don't explain this
well how drm-tip is rebuilt :-/
-Daniel
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.
>
> >
> > I'm fixing this now.
> > -Daniel
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Christian.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > BR,
> > > > Jani.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
>
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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