vm changes from linux-2.6.14 to linux-2.6.15

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed May 2 07:31:50 EST 2007


> I have attached a patch (so pine does not mangle it) for linux-2.6.20.9.
> Is this what you had in mind?
> 
> For linux-2.6.21, more work will be needed as it has more code calling 
> ptep_set_access_flags.

I'm not 100% sure we need the 'update' argument... we can remove the
whole old_entry, pte_same, etc... and just have pte_set_access_flags()
read the old PTE and decide wether something needs to be changed or not.

Ben.





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