Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:15:36 +0000 From: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr> To: sson <sson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Cache control from user land (patch) Message-ID: <20150113191536.GA29344@tazenat.gentiane.org> In-Reply-To: <1421175994697-5980362.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1421175994697-5980362.post@n5.nabble.com>
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> Hi all: > > Below is a link to a patch that provides a sysarch() so that cache lines may > be invalidated from userspace (via the sysarch() system call). For > convenience mips_cacheflush() is provided in the machine/cachectl.h header > file: > > int mips_cacheflush(void *addr, size_t nbytes, int whichcache); Why not provide an IRIX-compatible cacheflush() and _flush_cache() aliases? Many 3rd-party software expects them if defined(__mips__). Miod
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