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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:49:18 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: madvise (MADV_FREE)
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Jeff Dike wrote:
> Maybe on arches where the hardware provides those bits and the kernel uses 
> them, but the i386 kernel doesn't.

The i386 not-user-mode kernel certainly uses the accessed and dirty bits.
What do you think pte_young does?

-- Jamie
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