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An IPI must be cleared before it is handled otherwise next IPI could be

Description

An IPI must be cleared before it is handled otherwise next IPI could be
missed. In other words, if a new request for an IPI is sent while the
previous request is being handled but the IPI is not cleared yet, the
clearing of the previous IPI request also clears the new one and the
handling is missed.

There are only three MP interrupt controllers in ARM now. Two of them are
fixed by this change, the third one is correct, probably only just by
accident. The fix is minimalistic as new interrupt framework is awaited.

It was debugged on RPi2 where missing IPI handling together with SCHED_ULE
led to situation in which tdq_ipipending was not cleared and so IPI_PREEMPT
was stopped to be sent. Various odditys were found related to slow system
response time like various events timed out, and slow console response.

Submitted by: Svatopluk Kraus <onwahe@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: loos, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3722

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andrewAuthored on
Reviewer
loos
Differential Revision
D3722: ARM - fix IPI dispatching
Parents
rS288446: Disable suspend when we're shutting down. This solves the "tell FreeBSD
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