> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 3:46 PM
> To: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>; x...@kernel.org;
> gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org;
> de...@linuxdriverproject.org; o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com;
> jasow...@redhat.com; h...@zytor.com; Stephen Hemminger
> <sthem...@microsoft.com>; Michael Kelley (EOSG)
> <michael.h.kel...@microsoft.com>; vkuzn...@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86/Hyper-V:: Fix the circular dependency in IPI
> enlightenment.
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > I am confused. The label ipi_mask_done was introduced in this patch
> > > (the patch under question fixes a circular dependency in this patch):
> > >
> > > commit 68bb7bfb7985df2bd15c2dc975cb68b7a901488a
> > > Author: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
> > > Date:   Wed May 16 14:53:31 2018 -0700
> > >
> > >     X86/Hyper-V: Enable IPI enlightenments
> > >
> > >     Hyper-V supports hypercalls to implement IPI; use them.
> > >
> > >     Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
> > >     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> > >     Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikel...@microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > This patch was committed by Thomas some weeks ago and is in linux-
> next.
> > > This patch is also in 4.18-rc3.
> >
> > And then that name was changed to a different label in:
> >
> >   4bd06060762b: x86/hyper-v: Use cheaper HVCALL_SEND_IPI hypercall
> when possible
> >
> > So maybe you were testing on an older kernel. Could you try the latest -
> tip?


> 
> The problem is that the wreckage is in Linus tree and needs to be fixed
> there, i.e. via x86/urgent.
> 
> Now we have the new bits queued in x86/hyperv already which collide. So
> we
> need to merge x86/urgent into x86/hyperv after applying the fix and mop up
> the merge wreckage in x86/hyperv.
> 
> I'll have a look tomorrow morning unless you beat me to it.

I can rebase this patch against the latest tip and resend (tomorrow).

K. Y 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       tglx
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