From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cacheflush.2
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:34:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca265930-00d7-44f5-b2dd-535a5cf0310a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <794cf0d1-d528-4b5a-3ce0-b1b5f588dc6d@gmx.de>
Hi Heinrich & Michael,
What about the following?:
[
NOTES
GCC provides a similar function, which may be useful on archi‐
tectures that lack this system call:
void __builtin___clear_cache(void *begin, void *end);
]
Cheers,
Alex
On 12/9/20 7:04 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> function cacheflush() does not exist on many architectures.
>
> It would have saved me a lot of time if the man-page had referenced GCC's
>
> void __builtin___clear_cache(void *begin, void *end)
>
> Maybe you can add it to NOTES.
>
> Best regards
>
> heirnich
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 18:04 cacheflush.2 Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-12-09 18:34 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2020-12-09 18:48 ` cacheflush.2 Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-12-09 19:15 ` cacheflush.2 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-11 18:14 ` cacheflush.2 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-14 21:13 ` cacheflush.2 Martin Sebor
2020-12-14 22:34 ` cacheflush.2 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-18 10:42 ` Ping: cacheflush.2 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-18 16:51 ` Martin Sebor
2020-12-19 14:04 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-10 18:17 ` cacheflush.2 Dave Martin
2020-12-10 19:20 ` cacheflush.2 Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-12-10 20:56 ` RFC v2: cacheflush.2 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-11 8:15 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-12-11 18:02 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-11 18:22 ` RFC v3: " Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-11 18:26 ` RFC v4: " Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-14 11:43 ` [PATCH v5] cacheflush.2: Document __builtin___clear_cache() as a more portable alternative Alejandro Colomar
2020-12-14 12:00 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-12-15 13:30 ` [PATCH v6] " Alejandro Colomar
2020-12-20 15:35 ` Ping: " Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-20 20:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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