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From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] do_no_pfn
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Robin Holt wrote:
> For Carsten's case, how would you propose we handle that?
After previous discussion with Linus, and because I do not
have a good idea how to solve the remaining problems
in a clean way (yet?), please leave my case out for now.
We won't need it anytime soon on 390 as far as I can tell.

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You _really_ cannot do COW together with "random pfn
> filling".

cheers,
Carsten