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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.1/MIPS - missing cache flushing when user program
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> I think that's wrong, really.  We've discussed this before and decided that
> these flushing operations should be open-coded in the main .c file rather
> than embedded in arch functions which happen to undocumentedly do other
> stuff.

err, OK, I give up.  Lots of architectures do the cache flush in
tlb_start_vma().  I guess mips may as well do the same.