corresponding page tables followed by accesses to the pages in question.
This sequence is subject to the situation exactly described in the "AMD64
Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming" rev. 3.23,
"7.3.1 Special Coherency Considerations" [1, p. 171 f.]. Therefore, issuing
the INVLPG right after modifying the PTE bits is crucial.
For pmap_copy_page(), this has been broken in r124956 and later on carried
over to pmap_copy_pages() derived from the former, while all other places
in the i386 PMAP code use the correct order of instructions in this regard.
Fixing the latter breakage solves the problem of data corruption seen with
unmapped I/O enabled when running at least bare metal on AMD R-268D APUs.
However, this might also fix similar corruption reported for virtualized
environments.
- In pmap_copy_pages(), correctly set the cache bits on the source page being
copied. This change is thought to be a NOP for the real world, though. [2]
1: http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/24593_APM_v21.pdf
Submitted by: kib [2]
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 3 days
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