Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 May 2008 21:44:25 +0100 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> Well, you could use it to update the page and protection bits while preserving >> the AD bits, but I don't think that's very useful. >> > > It's not that it's not "very useful" - it's that it would be TOTALLY > WRONG. >
Sorry, I was using ironic understatement. I meant "...while preserving the AD bits, but I think that would be totally fucking stupid".
J
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