On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > ptep_modify_prot_start() returns the current pte value, and puts the > > pte entry into a state where either the hardware will not update the > > pte, or if it does, the updates will be preserved on commit. > > > > ptep_modify_prot_commit() writes back the updated pte, makes sure that > > any hardware updates made since ptep_modify_prot_start() are > > preserved. > > Ok, I'm fine with this now that it's renamed to be clearly about just > protection bits. > > So > > Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> And seems very reasonable (and exceptionally well described) to me too. Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
