Re: User applications

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

Exactly that I need, but I don't think it is implemented properly for mips.
It simply flushes all the caches, no matter what options you gives it.

/Carsten

Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:23:20PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
>
> > What we need is a mechanism to partial invalidate the I-cache and a mechanism
> > to write-back and/or invalidate the D-cache.
>
> There is this nice little man page which should even be installed on your
> Linux/Inhell box:
>
> 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 contents of indicated cache(s) for 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
>        EINVAL cache parameter is not one of  ICACHE,  DCACHE,  or
>               BCACHE.
>
>        EFAULT Some   or   all   of  the  address  range  addr  to
>               (addr+nbytes-1) is not accessible.
>
> BUGS
>        The current implementation ignores  the  addr  and  nbytes
>        parameters.   Therefore always the whole cache is flushed.
>
> NOTE
>        This system call is only available on MIPS based  systems.
>        It should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
>
> Linux 2.0.32                27 June 95                          1

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