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Sorry for the late reply -- sounds like we can handle this cleaner. But I am wondering: why is this even required? Is it just for "Services that intercept write faults (e.g., for promotion tracking) need PTEs to stay read-only" But that promotion tracking sounds like some orthogonal work to me. What am I missing that this is required in this patch set? (is it just for the special compressed RAM bits?) -- Cheers, David