x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier

Lazy TLB mode can result in an idle CPU being woken up by a TLB flush,
when all it really needs to do is reload %CR3 at the next context switch,
assuming no page table pages got freed.

Memory ordering is used to prevent race conditions between switch_mm_irqs_off,
which checks whether .tlb_gen changed, and the TLB invalidation code, which
increments .tlb_gen whenever page table entries get invalidated.

The atomic increment in inc_mm_tlb_gen is its own barrier; the context
switch code adds an explicit barrier between reading tlbstate.is_lazy and
next->context.tlb_gen.

CPUs in lazy TLB mode remain part of the mm_cpumask(mm), both because
that allows TLB flush IPIs to be sent at page table freeing time, and
because the cache line bouncing on the mm_cpumask(mm) was responsible
for about half the CPU use in switch_mm_irqs_off().

We can change native_flush_tlb_others() without touching other
(paravirt) implementations of flush_tlb_others() because we'll be
flushing less. The existing implementations flush more and are
therefore still correct.

Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180926035844.1420-8-riel@surriel.com

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