Re: flush_anon_page for MIPS

[Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>]

Ralf,

Thanks for looking into this.

> See why such stuff is happening?  Providing a default implemntation may be
> fine for i.e. strcpy() where it's only about providing a better mouse
> trap than the standard one in lib/string.c.  It's an awfully bad idea for
> something that matters for correctness such as flush_anon_page() ...

Well, James Bottomley discussed this approach on linux-arch back then,
so you could have raised objections.

I don't like this whole flush_anon_page() approach, but nobody
(including me) seems to be interested enough in finding a better one ;)

Miklos