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Revert r240317 to prevent leaking pmap entries

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Revert r240317 to prevent leaking pmap entries

Subsequent to r240317, kmem_free() was replaced with kva_free() (r254025).
kva_free() releases the KVA allocation for the mapped region, but no longer
clears the pmap (pagetable) entries.

An affected pmap_unmapdev operation would leave the still-pmap'd VA space
free for allocation by other KVA consumers. However, this bug easily
avoided notice for ~7 years because most devices (1) never call
pmap_unmapdev and (2) on amd64, mostly fit within the DMAP and do not need
KVA allocations. Other affected arch are less popular: i386, MIPS, and
PowerPC. Arm64, arm32, and riscv are not affected.

Reported by: Don Morris <dgmorris AT earthlink.net>
Submitted by: Don Morris (amd64 part)
Reviewed by: kib, markj, Don (!amd64 parts)
MFC after: I don't intend to, but you might want to
Sponsored by: Dell Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25689

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kib
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D25689: Revert r240317 to prevent leaking pmap entries
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rS363265: add script to help figure out what man pages need MLINKS updated...
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