Re: User applications

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> promoted to the syscall status? What is the situation that a user in its program
> would like
> to call cacheflush() ? Unless, of course, he is doing DoS.

A cache flush is not a denial of service attack. Its no less effective than a
1Mb memcpy 

> I can understand why we need this in kernel, for context switch, for example, but
> as a syscall?...

Self modifying code, dynamic compilation, glibc trampolines



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