Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] mm/gup: make __gup_longterm_locked common

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Dec 10 2020 - 14:54:57 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 01:57:20PM -0500, Pavel Tatashin wrote:

> Thank you. Yes, this series should be backported, but I am not sure
> what to do about Jason's patch. Perhaps, in the next version I will
> send out this series together with his patch.

You need to send out patches that can be applied on top of linux-next,
at this point the window to go to rc kernels is done.

When you eventually want this back ported to stables then suggest they
take my patch as a pre-requisite.

Jason