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bhyve/arm64: Fix a race in PSCI CPU_ON
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Authored by andrew on Aug 6 2025, 4:20 PM.
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Summary

When multiple CPUs try to start the same CPU only one should return
success, the other CPUs should see either ON_PENDING or ALREADY_ON.
There was a race between checking if the CPU is on and marking it as
on in the running_cpumask CPU set.

Fix the race by using CPU_TEST_SET_ATOMIC to both check and set the
state in running_cpumask.

Sponsored by: Arm Ltd

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