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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations

> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:05:37 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>

> > 1) Is it possible to know for sure that a smaller range could be
> >    flushed safely?
> 
> I believe glibc has an "aux" mechanism to convey this.  I don't know
> how it works, though.  Geoff?

The kernel does, in some versions, pass the size of a cache line (8,
16, whatever), but I don't think glibc passes it to userland yet.
There's no way to know which lines don't need flushing.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>
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