Christian Brauner [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:17:30PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

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Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref] writes:

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Hi all,

Today's linux-next merge of the pidfd tree got a conflict in:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl

between commit:

  35e32a6cb5f6 ("powerpc/syscalls: Split SPU-ness out of ABI")

from the powerpc-fixes tree and commit:

  9b4feb630e8e ("arch: wire-up close_range()")

from the pidfd 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.

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I'm planning to send those changes to Linus for rc2, so the conflict
will then be vs mainline. But I guess it's pretty trivial so it doesn't
really matter.

close_range() is targeted for the v5.9 merge window. I always do
test-merges with mainline at the time I'm creating a pr and I'll just
mention to Linus that there's conflict with ppc. :)

I ended up dropping the patch, so there shouldn't be a conflict anymore.

cheers