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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1 of 4] mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction
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On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> > Along the lines of:
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> Hell no. There's a reason we have a special set_wrprotect() thing. We can
> do it more efficiently on native hardware by just clearing the bit
> atomically. No need to do the cmpxchg games.

But we can't batch ...

Ben.




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