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schedlock 4/4

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schedlock 4/4

Don't hold the scheduler lock while doing context switches. Instead we
unlock after selecting the new thread and switch within a spinlock
section leaving interrupts and preemption disabled to prevent local
concurrency. This means that mi_switch() is entered with the thread
locked but returns without. This dramatically simplifies scheduler
locking because we will not hold the schedlock while spinning on
blocked lock in switch.

This change has not been made to 4BSD but in principle it would be
more straightforward.

Discussed with: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22778

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Provenance
jeffAuthored on
Reviewer
kib
Differential Revision
D22778: Don't hold the scheduler lock while doing context switches.
Parents
rS355783: powerpc/powernv: Set the PTCR for the Nest MMU
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