Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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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