From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 21:44:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48387E29.50103@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805241022210.3081@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 14:20 [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` [PATCH 1 of 4] mm: add a pte_rmw transaction abstraction Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` [PATCH 2 of 4] paravirt: add hooks for pte_rmw_start/commit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` [PATCH 3 of 4] xen: implement pte_rmw_start/commit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 14:20 ` [PATCH 4 of 4] xen: add mechanism to extend existing multicalls Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 18:27 ` [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction Zachary Amsden
2008-05-23 20:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 20:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 23:25 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-05-31 0:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-02 20:09 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-05-23 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-23 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-23 20:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-23 20:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-24 20:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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