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cacheflush.2: Update some portability details and bugs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.BR BCACHE .
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.BR BCACHE .
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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This Linux-specific system call is available only on MIPS-based systems.
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Historically, this system calls was available on all MIPS UNIX variants
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.\" FIXME The cacheflush() system call was only on MIPS back in 1.2 days,
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including RISC/os, IRIX, Ultrix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD
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.\" but by now it is on a number of other architectures (but not i386).
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(and also on some non-UNIX MIPS operating systems), so that
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.\" Investigate the details and update this page.
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the existence of this call in MIPS operating systems is a de-facto
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It should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
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standard.
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.\" Irix 6.5 appears to have a cacheflush() syscall -- mtk
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.SS Caveat
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.BR cacheflush ()
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should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
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On Linux, this call first appeared on the MIPS archititecture,
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but nowadays, Linux provides a
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.BR cacheflush ()
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system call on some other architectures, but with different arguments.
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.SH BUGS
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.SH BUGS
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The current implementation ignores the
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Linux kernels older than version 2.6.11 ignore the
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.I addr
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.I addr
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.I nbytes
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.I nbytes
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arguments.
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arguments, making this function fairly expensive.
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Therefore, the whole cache is always flushed.
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Therefore, the whole cache is always flushed.
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This function is always behaving as if
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.BR BCACHE
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.I cache
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argument and does not do any error checking on the
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.I cache
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