From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754819AbYFRXcM (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:32:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754736AbYFRXbp (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:31:45 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:33419 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754573AbYFRXbo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:31:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 4] mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML , x86@kernel.org, xen-devel , Thomas Gleixner , Hugh Dickins , Zachary Amsden , kvm-devel , Virtualization Mailing List , Rusty Russell , Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:23:23 +1000 Message-Id: <1213831403.8011.24.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 04:30 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > The only current user of this interface is mprotect Do you plan to use it with fork ultimately ? Ben.