Re: [mm PATCH v6 6/7] mm: Add reserved flag setting to set_page_links

[Alexander Duyck]

On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 15:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 21:42:47 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > I got your explanation. However Andrew had already applied the patches
> > > and I had some outstanding issues in them that needed to be addressed.
> > > So I thought it best to send out this set of patches with those fixes
> > > before the code in mm became too stale. I am still working on what to
> > > do about the Reserved bit, and plan to submit it as a follow-up set.
> > > From my experience Andrew can drop patches between different versions of
> > the patchset. Things can change a lot while they are in mmotm and under
> > the discussion.
> 
> It's been a while and everyone has forgotten everything, so I'll drop
> this version of the patchset.
> 

As far as getting to the reserved bit I probably won't have the time in
the near future. If I were to resubmit the first 4 patches as a
standalone patch set would that be acceptable, or would they be held up
as well until the reserved bit issues is addressed?

- Alex