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authorGravatar Rex Lunae <rexlunae@gmail.com> 2016-08-11 20:04:24 -0700
committerGravatar Rex Lunae <rexlunae@gmail.com> 2016-08-11 20:04:24 -0700
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Moved cache flushing operations out of bits64 to shared because they
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+//! Functions to flush the translation lookaside buffer (TLB).
+
+/// Invalidate the given address in the TLB using the `invlpg` instruction.
+///
+/// # Safety
+/// This function is unsafe as it causes a general protection fault (GP) if the current privilege
+/// level is not 0.
+pub unsafe fn flush(addr: usize) {
+ asm!("invlpg ($0)" :: "r" (addr) : "memory");
+}
+
+/// Invalidate the TLB completely by reloading the CR3 register.
+///
+/// # Safety
+/// This function is unsafe as it causes a general protection fault (GP) if the current privilege
+/// level is not 0.
+pub unsafe fn flush_all() {
+ use shared::control_regs::{cr3, cr3_write};
+ cr3_write(cr3())
+}