switching. The indirect costs being unnecessary TLB misses that are
incurred when ASIDs are not used. In fact, currently, when we perform a
context switch on one processor, we issue a broadcast TLB invalidation that
flushes the TLB contents on every processor.
Mark all user-space ("ttbr0") page table entries with the non-global flag so
that they are cached in the TLB under their ASID.
Correct an error in pmap_pinit0(). The pointer to the root of the page
table was being initialized to the root of the kernel-space page table
rather than a user-space page table. However, the root of the page table
that was being cached in process 0's md_l0addr field correctly pointed to a
user-space page table. As long as ASIDs weren't being used, this was
harmless, except that it led to some unnecessary page table switches in
pmap_switch(). Specifically, other kernel processes besides process 0 would
have their md_l0addr field set to the root of the kernel-space page table,
and so pmap_switch() would actually change page tables when switching
between process 0 and other kernel processes.
Implement a workaround for Cavium erratum 27456 affecting ThunderX machines.
(I would like to thank andrew@ for providing the code to detect the affected
machines.)
Address integer overflow in the definition of TCR_ASID_16.
Setup TCR according to the PARange and ASIDBits fields from
ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1. Previously, TCR_ASID_16 was unconditionally set.
Modify build_l1_block_pagetable so that lower attributes, such as ATTR_nG,
can be specified as a parameter.
Eliminate some unused code.
Earlier versions were tested to varying degrees by: andrew, emaste, markj
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21922
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