> On Jul 8, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:53:44 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Today's linux-next merge of the char-misc tree got a conflict in:
>>
>> drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
>>
>> between commit:
>>
>> 225afca60b8a ("vmw_balloon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions")
>>
>> from the driver-core tree and commits:
>>
>> 83a8afa72e9c ("vmw_balloon: Compaction support")
>> 5d1a86ecf328 ("vmw_balloon: Add memory shrinker")
>>
>> from the char-misc 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.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Stephen Rothwell
>>
>> diff --cc drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
>> index fdf5ad757226,043eed845246..000000000000
>> --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
>> @@@ -1553,15 -1942,26 +1932,24 @@@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void
>> if (x86_hyper_type != X86_HYPER_VMWARE)
>> return -ENODEV;
>>
>> - for (page_size = VMW_BALLOON_4K_PAGE;
>> - page_size <= VMW_BALLOON_LAST_SIZE; page_size++)
>> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.page_sizes[page_size].pages);
>> -
>> -
>> INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&balloon.dwork, vmballoon_work);
>>
>> + error = vmballoon_register_shrinker(&balloon);
>> + if (error)
>> + goto fail;
>> +
>> - error = vmballoon_debugfs_init(&balloon);
>> - if (error)
>> - goto fail;
>> + vmballoon_debugfs_init(&balloon);
>>
>> + /*
>> + * Initialization of compaction must be done after the call to
>> + * balloon_devinfo_init() .
>> + */
>> + balloon_devinfo_init(&balloon.b_dev_info);
>> + error = vmballoon_compaction_init(&balloon);
>> + if (error)
>> + goto fail;
>> +
>> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.huge_pages);
>> spin_lock_init(&balloon.comm_lock);
>> init_rwsem(&balloon.conf_sem);
>> balloon.vmci_doorbell = VMCI_INVALID_HANDLE;
>
> I am still getting this conflict (the commit ids may have changed).
> Just a reminder in case you think Linus may need to know.
Greg,
Can you please take care of it, as you are the maintainer of char-misc
and the committer of the patch?
