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Subject: Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?
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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