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Message-ID: <4c72a04bb87e341ea7c747d509f42136a99a0716.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:50:36 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, pavel.tatashin@...rosoft.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, dave.jiang@...el.com,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, willy@...radead.org, vbabka@...e.cz,
        khalid.aziz@...cle.com, ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, yi.z.zhang@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [mm PATCH v6 6/7] mm: Add reserved flag setting to
 set_page_links

On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 15:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 21:42:47 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> 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