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arm64: Make local stores observable before sending IPIs

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arm64: Make local stores observable before sending IPIs

Add a synchronizing instruction to flush and wait until the local
CPU's writes are observable to other CPUs before sending IPIs.

This fixes an issue where recipient CPUs doing a rendezvous could
enter the rendezvous handling code before the initiator's writes
to the smp_rv_* variables were visible. This manifested as a
system hang, where a single CPU's increment of smp_rv_waiters[0]
actually happened "before" the initiator's zeroing of that field,
so all CPUs were stuck with the field appearing to be at
ncpus - 1.

Reviewed by: andrew, markj
Approved by: scottl (implicit)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Ampere Computing, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25798

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scottphAuthored on Aug 26 2020, 2:04 AM
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rG177b077e577f: Handle jail.conf variables that have the same names as parameters.
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