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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 21:44:25 +0100
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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