[PATCH] memory writeback/invalidation fixes

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>

This attempts to take care of 2 of the MM todos I had on
my backlog:

1) Zap the stupid flush_cache_all() thing with more meaningful
   interfaces.

2) Resolve the ptrace user page access issues, first stage.

The "first stage" mentioned for #2 is simply creating the
user page accesor interfaces.  The next stage needs to be
mucking with get_user_pages() so that we can control when
the flush_dcache_page() occurs.  Then we:

1) For every platform where flush_dcache_page() is a non-nop
   add a call to the beginning of copy_{from,to}_user_page().
2) Make access_process_vm() set the "no dcache flush" bit in
   it's call to get_user_pages().

The idea also was that we'd consolidate the write etc. boolean
args passed to get_user_pages() into flag bits too.

But at least with the below, we can delete that reminder FIXME
comment from kernel/ptrace.c, the platforms have the necessary
tools and just need to make use of it :)

As a bonus I noticed that VMALLOC_VMADDR() did absolutely nothing.

After all of this I only have 1 real TODO left, and that's dealing
with the SMP TLB/pte invalidation stuff, very low priority until
someone starts doing more work with sparc32/SMP in 2.6.x :)

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