From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751116AbVKJA5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:57:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751170AbVKJA5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:57:21 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:42213 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116AbVKJA5U (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:57:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:56:33 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: David Gibson Cc: Adam Litke , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Hugetlb: Copy on Write support Message-ID: <20051110005633.GO29402@holomorphy.com> References: <1131578925.28383.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1131579596.28383.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051110001534.GN29402@holomorphy.com> <20051110004907.GA17840@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051110004907.GA17840@localhost.localdomain> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:15:34PM -0800, William Lee Irwin wrote: >> Did you do the audit of pte protection bits I asked about? If not, I'll >> dredge them up and check to make sure. On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:49:07AM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > I still don't know what you're talking about here - you never > responded to my mail asking for clarification. The hugepage code > already relies on pte_mkwrite() and pte_wrprotect() working correctly, > I don't see that COW makes any difference. You appear to have a good idea of what's going on given that you've reminded me of that reliance. It looks like I dropped that email packet for some reason, sorry about that. Acked-by: William Irwin -- wli