Re: [PATCH 4/4] Hugetlb: Copy on Write support

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:15:34PM -0800, William Lee Irwin wrote:
>> Did you do the audit of pte protection bits I asked about? If not, I'll
>> dredge them up and check to make sure.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:49:07AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> I still don't know what you're talking about here - you never
> responded to my mail asking for clarification.  The hugepage code
> already relies on pte_mkwrite() and pte_wrprotect() working correctly,
> I don't see that COW makes any difference.

You appear to have a good idea of what's going on given that you've
reminded me of that reliance. It looks like I dropped that email packet
for some reason, sorry about that.

Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


-- wli
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