On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Zenon Fortuna wrote: > Does the current system-call "cacheflush(2)" works with the newer kernels? > As the "man cacheflush" tells, it was supposed to work only on MIPS based > systems. It absolutely has to work, on the MIPS target GCC emits code invoking it to synchronise trampolines built at the run time on the stack (used for calling nested functions, a C language extension borrowed from Pascal, etc.), before passing execution there. Verification of this syscall is probably implicitly covered by the GCC test suite already. Maciej