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sync_instruction_memory(3C)				   Standard C Library Functions 			       sync_instruction_memory(3C)

NAME

       sync_instruction_memory - make modified instructions executable

SYNOPSIS

       void sync_instruction_memory(caddr_t addr, int len);

DESCRIPTION

       The sync_instruction_memory() function performs whatever steps are required to make instructions modified by a program executable.

       Some  processor	architectures,	including  some  SPARC processors, have separate and independent instruction and data caches which are not
       kept consistent by hardware.  For example, if the instruction cache contains an instruction from some address and the program then stores a
       new  instruction  at  that  address,  the  new instruction may not be immediately visible to the instruction fetch mechanism. Software must
       explicitly invalidate the instruction cache entries for new or changed mappings of pages that might contain executable  instructions.   The
       sync_instruction_memory() function performs this function, and/or any other functions needed to make modified instructions between addr and
       addr+len visible. A program should call sync_instruction_memory() after modifying instructions and before executing them.

       On processors with unified caches (one cache for both instructions and data) and pipelines which are flushed by a branch instruction,  such
       as the x86 architecture, the function may do nothing and just return.

       The  changes  are  immediately  visible	to  the  thread calling sync_instruction_memory() when the call returns, even if the thread should
       migrate to another processor during or after the call. The changes become visible to other threads in the same manner that stores do;  that
       is, they eventually become visible, but the latency is implementation-dependent.

       The  result  of executing sync_instruction_memory() are unpredictable if addr through addr+len-1 are not valid for the address space of the
       program making the call.

RETURN VALUES

       No values are returned.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    12 Feb 1997 				       sync_instruction_memory(3C)

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NAME

       cacheflush - flush contents of instruction and/or data cache

SYNOPSIS

       #include <asm/cachectl.h>

       int cacheflush(char *addr, int nbytes, int cache);

DESCRIPTION

       cacheflush()  flushes the contents of the indicated cache(s) for the user addresses in the range addr to (addr+nbytes-1).  cache may be one
       of:

       ICACHE Flush the instruction cache.

       DCACHE Write back to memory and invalidate the affected valid cache lines.

       BCACHE Same as (ICACHE|DCACHE).

RETURN VALUE

       cacheflush() returns 0 on success or -1 on error.  If errors are detected, errno will indicate the error.

ERRORS

       EFAULT Some or all of the address range addr to (addr+nbytes-1) is not accessible.

       EINVAL cache is not one of ICACHE, DCACHE, or BCACHE (but see BUGS).

CONFORMING TO

       Historically, this system call was available on all MIPS UNIX variants including RISC/os, IRIX, Ultrix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and  FreeBSD  (and
       also on some non-UNIX MIPS operating systems), so that the existence of this call in MIPS operating systems is a de-facto standard.

   Caveat
       cacheflush()  should  not  be  used  in programs intended to be portable.  On Linux, this call first appeared on the MIPS architecture, but
       nowadays, Linux provides a cacheflush() system call on some other architectures, but with different arguments.

BUGS

       Linux kernels older than version 2.6.11 ignore the addr and nbytes arguments, making this function fairly expensive.  Therefore, the  whole
       cache is always flushed.

       This function always behaves as if BCACHE has been passed for the cache argument and does not do any error checking on the cache argument.

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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