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

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:50:36 -0700 Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?
> 

Yes, I think that merging the first four will be OK.  As long as they
don't add some bug which [5/5] corrects, which happens sometimes!

Please redo, retest and resend sometime?