to do uncached memory access during VM operations (which can be
quite expensive on some CPUs).
We currently write-back PTEs as soon as they're modified; there is
some room for optimization (to write them back in larger chunks).
For PTEs in the APTE space (i.e. PTEs for pmaps that describe another
process's address space), PTEs must also be evicted from the cache
complete (PTEs in PTE space will be evicted durint a context switch).
into platform-specific initialization code, giving platform-specific
code control over which free list a given chunk of memory gets put
onto.
Changes are essentially mechanical. Test compiled for all ARM
platforms, test booted on Intel IQ80321 and Shark.
Discussed some time ago on port-arm.
thorpej