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Invalidate the mapping before updating its physical address.

Description

Invalidate the mapping before updating its physical address.

Doing so ensures that all threads sharing the pmap have a consistent
view of the mapping. This fixes the problem described in the commit
log messages for r329254 without the overhead of an extra fault in the
common case. Once other pmap_enter() implementations are similarly
modified, the workaround added in r329254 can be removed, reducing the
overhead of CoW faults.

See also r335784 for amd64. The i386 implementation of pmap_enter()
already reused the PV entry from the old mapping.

Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16133

Details

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Reviewer
kib
Differential Revision
D16133: Address the COW problem in i386's pmap_enter()
Parents
rS336091: MFC r335660:
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