[PATCH 1/3] efi: Introduce *_continue efi_memory_desc iterators

[Jeremy Linton]

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Catalin Marinas [mailto:catalin.marinas at arm.com]
|Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 12:12 PM
|To: Jeremy Linton
|Cc: Matt Fleming; Mark Rutland; linux-efi at vger.kernel.org; Will Deacon;
|linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
|Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi: Introduce *_continue efi_memory_desc
|iterators
|
|On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:31:14AM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
|> On 06/02/2016 11:29 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
|> >On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:36:50PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
|> >>On Wed, 01 Jun, at 11:43:26AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
|> >>>
|> >>>Thanks for the heads up. I'll rebase the patches after -rc2 but
|> >>>anyway I plan to merge them in 4.8 via the arm64 tree, including
|> >>>the patch above if Matt acks it. So there is enough time to fix the
|conflicts.
|> >>
|> >>I'd really prefer it if you didn't take this series through the
|> >>arm64 tree, unless there are existing dependencies, of course.
|> >>
|> >>There were a number of conflicts in 3 different maintainer trees in
|> >>linux-next before the most recent merge window opened, and extra
|> >>work was required to sort that out. I want to avoid that in the
|> >>future, so expect me to be more insistent about keeping EFI patches
|> >>in the EFI tree than I have been in the past.
|> >>
|> >>Do arm64 prerequisites exist for this series? Or are you planning on
|> >>adding dependencies on top?
|> >
|> >I don't know when Jeremy plans to submit his contiguous PTE patches
|> >(we rejected them on the grounds of unnecessary huge page splitting,
|> >hence this series). If he's not targeting 4.8, I'm happy for the
|> >patches to go in via the EFI tree.
|>
|> I can re-post them again for 4.8. They seem to get simpler every time!
|
|I think you should post them fairly soon so that we get a chance to review
|them and ideally push into next around -rc4.
|
|Regarding these efi/arm64 patches, I can push them to a branch (once the
|conflicting efi/urgent patches hit upstream, I guess around -rc2) that Matt can
|pull into the EFI tree and I can also pull in the arm64 tree
|*if* we are to merge the Jeremy's patches.
|
|Jeremy, you can base your patches on such branch (I'll follow up with the
|details if that's ok with Matt).

Sure. Most of the delay on posting them generally comes down to how many machines I try to boot them on with a given kernel, which is related to how many ACPI issues I happen to have.


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