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Replace all postponed TLB flushes by immediate ones except the one

Description

Replace all postponed TLB flushes by immediate ones except the one
in pmap_remove_pages().

Some points were considered:
(1) There is no range TLB flush cp15 function.
(2) There is no target selection for hardware TLB flush broadcasting.
(3) Some memory ranges could be mapped sparsely.
(4) Some memory ranges could be quite large.

Tested by buildworld on RPi2 and Jetson TK1, i.e. 4 core platforms.
It turned out that the buildworld time is faster. On the other hand,
when the postponed TLB flush was also removed from pmap_remove_pages(),
the result was worse. But pmap_remove_pages() is called for removing
all user mapping from a process, thus it's quite expected.

Note that the postponed TLB flushes came here from i386 pmap where
hardware TLB flush broadcasting is not available.

Approved by: kib (mentor)

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rS292268: Remove sys/types.h due to STANDARDS and unistd.h also includes sys/types.h.
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