linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] no ZERO

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:41:46 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>
cc:	Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	tee@....com, holt@....com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:03:15PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Maybe Nick will decide to not to mark the readfaults as dirty.
> 
> I don't like to mark the pte readonly and clean,

Nor I: I meant that anonymous readfault should
(perhaps) mark the pte writable but clean.

Hugh
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