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dtrace/arm: Fix and de-pessimize dtrace_copy
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Authored by freebsd_dev.thsi.be on Sun, Aug 30, 10:51 PM.
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Summary

Use an unprivileged load to access user memory from dtrace_copy, which
is running in SVC mode.

Abort the loop if the load is trapped, as it is useless, hence
wasteful, to keep faulting on successive addresses. I believe that
this de-pessimization should also be done on aarch64 and riscv.

PR: 298064
MFC after: 1 month

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