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Right now, thread_single(SINGLE_EXIT) returns after the p_numthreads

Description

Right now, thread_single(SINGLE_EXIT) returns after the p_numthreads
reaches 1. The p_numthreads counter is decremented in thread_exit() by
a call to thread_unlink(). This means that the exiting threads may
still execute on other CPUs when thread_single(SINGLE_EXIT) returns.
As result, vmspace could be destroyed while paging structures are
still used on other CPUs by exiting threads.

Delay the return from thread_single(SINGLE_EXIT) until all threads are
really destroyed by thread_stash() after the last switch out. The
p_exitthreads counter already provides the required mechanism, move
the wait from the thread_wait() (which is called from wait(2) code)
into thread_single().

Reported by: many (as "panic: pmap active <addr>")
Reviewed by: alc, jhb
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week

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Provenance
kibAuthored on
Reviewer
jhb
Parents
rS270999: Fix dereference after NULL check.
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