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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Apr 2010 15:03:45 +0900 (JST)

> I'm not against changing kernel internal. I only disagree mmu
> attribute fashion will be become used widely.

Desktop already uses similar features via PCI mmap
attributes and such, not to mention MSR settings on
x86.

So I disagree with your assesment that this is some
HPC/embedded issue.