cacheflush(2) System Calls Manual cacheflush(2)Name
cacheflush - flush the instruction cache, data cache, or both
Syntax
#include <mips/cachectl.h>
cacheflush(addr, nbytes, cache)
char *addr;
int nbytes, cache;
Description
Flushes contents of indicated caches for user addresses in the range of addr to (addr+nbytes-1). The cache parameter is one of the follow-
ing:
ICACHE Flush only the instruction cache.
DCACHE Flush only the data cache.
BCACHE Flush both the instruction and data caches.
Return Values
The system call returns 0 when errors are not detected. If errors are detected, the system call returns -1 with the error cause indicated
in errno.
Diagnostics
[EFAULT] Some or all of the address range in the addr to (addr+nbytes-1) are not accessible.
[EINVAL] The cache parameter is not ICACHE, DCACHE, or BCACHE.
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CACHEFLUSH(2) Linux Programmer's Manual CACHEFLUSH(2)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
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