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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Subject: Re: 'cacheflush' in FreeBSD ?
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 05:13:13PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> FreeBSD doesn't have 'cacheflush' system call. So how is instruction
> cache flushed on FreeBSD? I suspect this is a bug in LLVM that this
> function is a noop.

__clear_cache on the relevant architectures?

Joerg