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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:16:16PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:

> I think I just found it.
> The system call is sysmips(FLUSH_CACHE).

Don't.  Sysmips(FLUSH_CACHE, ...) only allows very coarse flush operation,
that is flushing all caches.  The whole sysmips(2) call exists in Linux
only as a stone age compatibility thing.

  Ralf