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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
.\"
-.TH cacheflush 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH cacheflush 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
cacheflush \- flush contents of instruction and/or data cache
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/cachectl.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int cacheflush(void " addr [. nbytes "], int "nbytes ", int "cache );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.IR Note :
On some architectures,
there is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ glibc provides a wrapper for this system call,
with the prototype shown in SYNOPSIS,
for the following architectures:
ARC, CSKY, MIPS, and NIOS2.
-.PP
+.P
On some other architectures,
Linux provides this system call, with different arguments:
.TP
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ NDS32:
.nf
.BI "int cacheflush(unsigned int " start ", unsigned int " end ", int " cache );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
On the above architectures,
glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
.BR syscall (2).
@@ -102,17 +102,17 @@ you probably want to use the GCC built-in function
.BR __builtin___clear_cache (),
which provides a portable interface
across platforms supported by GCC and compatible compilers:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
.BI "void __builtin___clear_cache(void *" begin ", void *" end );
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
On platforms that don't require instruction cache flushes,
.BR __builtin___clear_cache ()
has no effect.
-.PP
+.P
.IR Note :
On some GCC-compatible compilers,
the prototype for this built-in function uses
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ and
.I nbytes
arguments, making this function fairly expensive.
Therefore, the whole cache is always flushed.
-.PP
+.P
This function always behaves as if
.B BCACHE
has been passed for the