Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/efi: Replace efi_pgd with efi_mm.pgd

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 12 March 2018 at 09:26, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > -static pgd_t *efi_pgd;
> >> > -
> >>
> >> Hm, so there's some interaction here with:
> >>
> >>   116fef640859: x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Add the EFI pagetable to the debugfs 'page_tables' directory
> >>
> >> which is in tip:x86/mm.
> >>
> >> Could you please resolve that conflict? I'll sort out the topic branches
> >> afterwards.
> >
> > So I've resolved it the following way, I merged the conflicting commit into
> > tip:efi/core and applied the 3 unrelated patches from your series:
> >
> >  36b649760e94: efi: Use string literals for efi_char16_t variable initializers
> >  136d5d57e35c: efi/esrt: Fix handling of early ESRT table mapping
> >  7e904a91bf60: efi: Use efi_mm in x86 as well as ARM
> >  b0599e2801df: Merge branch 'x86/mm' into efi/core
> >
> > and pushed it out.
> >
> > So if you could resolve the two conflicting patches on top of 36b649760e94 then we
> > should be good going forward.
> >
> 
> By 'resolve' you mean rebase and resend, right?

Yeah.

I expected it to probably be a bit more work than a regular rebase, because we 
grew a new efi_pgd user and I didn't want to trivialize the conflict resolution 
effort - hence the 'resolve the conflict' formulation! :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo