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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:18:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: only do a local TLB flush in ptep_set_access_flags()
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I can change the text of the changelog, however it looks
> like do_wp_page does actually use ptep_set_access_flags
> to set the write bit in the pte...
>
> I guess both need to be reflected in the changelog text
> somehow?

Yeah, and by now, after all this discussion, I suspect it should be
committed with a comment too. Commit messages are good and all, but
unless chasing a particular bug they introduced, we shouldn't expect
people to read them for background information.

                    Linus
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