On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Zoltan Menyhart wrote: > It is very much curious having so few dirty and i-access traps... The dirty bit handler is only used for sharable writable mappings. There are only very few pieces of software using such mappings. The kernel usually attempts to prepopulate ptes with bits set so that the dirty fault is avoided. F.e. a no page fault attempted for a write will install a dirty pte. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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