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From: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>
To: sson <sson@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cache control from user land (patch)
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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