x86: change flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask
Impact: reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API. This is made a little more tricky by uv_flush_tlb_others which actually alters its argument, for an IPI to be sent to the remaining cpus in the mask. I solve this by allocating a cpumask_var_t for this case and falling back to IPI should this fail. To eliminate temporaries in the caller, all flush_tlb_others implementations now do the this-cpu-elimination step themselves. Note also the curious "cpus_or(f->flush_cpumask, cpumask, f->flush_cpumask)" which has been there since pre-git and yet f->flush_cpumask is always zero at this point. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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