Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:29:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1 of 4] mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction |
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > ptep_modify_prot_start() returns the current pte value, and puts the > pte entry into a state where either the hardware will not update the > pte, or if it does, the updates will be preserved on commit. > > ptep_modify_prot_commit() writes back the updated pte, makes sure that > any hardware updates made since ptep_modify_prot_start() are > preserved.
Ok, I'm fine with this now that it's renamed to be clearly about just protection bits.
So
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
for what it's worth.
Linus
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