Introduce membar_acquire/release. Deprecate membar_enter/exit.

The names membar_enter/exit were unclear, and the documentation of
membar_enter has disagreed with the implementations on sparc,
power

Introduce membar_acquire/release. Deprecate membar_enter/exit.

The names membar_enter/exit were unclear, and the documentation of
membar_enter has disagreed with the implementations on sparc,
powerpc, and even x86(!) for the entire time it has been in NetBSD.

The terms `acquire' and `release' are ubiquitous in the literature
today, and have been adopted in the C and C++ standards to mean
load-before-load/store and load/store-before-store, respectively,
which are exactly the orderings required by acquiring and releasing a
mutex, as well as other useful applications like decrementing a
reference count and then freeing the underlying object if it went to
zero.

Originally I proposed changing one word in the documentation for
membar_enter to make it load-before-load/store instead of
store-before-load/store, i.e., to make it an acquire barrier. I
proposed this on the grounds that

(a) all implementations guarantee load-before-load/store,
(b) some implementations fail to guarantee store-before-load/store,
and
(c) all uses in-tree assume load-before-load/store.

I verified parts (a) and (b) (except, for (a), powerpc didn't even
guarantee load-before-load/store -- isync isn't necessarily enough;
need lwsync in general -- but it _almost_ did, and it certainly didn't
guarantee store-before-load/store).

Part (c) might not be correct, however: under the mistaken assumption
that atomic-r/m/w then membar-w/rw is equivalent to atomic-r/m/w then
membar-r/rw, I only audited the cases of membar_enter that _aren't_
immediately after an atomic-r/m/w. All of those cases assume
load-before-load/store. But my assumption was wrong -- there are
cases of atomic-r/m/w then membar-w/rw that would be broken by
changing to atomic-r/m/w then membar-r/rw:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2022/03/29/msg028044.html

Furthermore, the name membar_enter has been adopted in other places
like OpenBSD where it actually does follow the documentation and
guarantee store-before-load/store, even if that order is not useful.
So the name membar_enter currently lives in a bad place where it
means either of two things -- r/rw or w/rw.

With this change, we deprecate membar_enter/exit, introduce
membar_acquire/release as better names for the useful pair (r/rw and
rw/w), and make sure the implementation of membar_enter guarantees
both what was documented _and_ what was implemented, making it an
alias for membar_sync.

While here, rework all of the membar_* definitions and aliases. The
new logic follows a rule to make it easier to audit:

membar_X is defined as an alias for membar_Y iff membar_X is
guaranteed by membar_Y.

The `no stronger than' relation is (the transitive closure of):

- membar_consumer (r/r) is guaranteed by membar_acquire (r/rw)
- membar_producer (w/w) is guaranteed by membar_release (rw/w)
- membar_acquire (r/rw) is guaranteed by membar_sync (rw/rw)
- membar_release (rw/w) is guaranteed by membar_sync (rw/rw)

And, for the deprecated membars:

- membar_enter (whether r/rw, w/rw, or rw/rw) is guaranteed by
membar_sync (rw/rw)
- membar_exit (rw/w) is guaranteed by membar_release (rw/w)

(membar_exit is identical to membar_release, but the name is
deprecated.)

Finally, while here, annotate some of the instructions with their
semantics. For powerpc, leave an essay with citations on the
unfortunate but -- as far as I can tell -- necessary decision to use
lwsync, not isync, for membar_acquire and membar_consumer.

Also add membar(3) and atomic(3) man page links.

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sparc64/membar_ops: Upgrade membar_enter from R/RW to RW/RW.

This will be deprecated soon but let's avoid leaving rakes to trip on
with it arising from disagreement over the documentation (W/RW) and

sparc64/membar_ops: Upgrade membar_enter from R/RW to RW/RW.

This will be deprecated soon but let's avoid leaving rakes to trip on
with it arising from disagreement over the documentation (W/RW) and
implementation and usage (R/RW).

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sparc64: Fix membar_sync by issuing membar #StoreLoad.

In TSO this is the only memory barrier ever needed, and somehow we
got this wrong and instead issued an unnecessary membar #LoadLoad --
not nee

sparc64: Fix membar_sync by issuing membar #StoreLoad.

In TSO this is the only memory barrier ever needed, and somehow we
got this wrong and instead issued an unnecessary membar #LoadLoad --
not needed even in PSO let alone in TSO.

XXX Apparently we may run userland programs with PSO or RMO, in which
case all of these membars need fixing:

PSO RMO
membar_consumer nop membar #LoadLoad
membar_producer membar #StoreStore membar #StoreStore
membar_enter nop membar #LoadLoad|LoadStore
membar_exit membar #StoreStore membar #LoadStore|StoreStore
membar_sync membar #StoreLoad|StoreStore
membar #...everything...

But at least this fixes the TSO case in which we run the kernel.
Also I'm not sure there's any non-TSO hardware out there in practice.

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Nix trailing whitespace in files of membars, atomics, and lock stubs.

Will be touching many of these files soon for functional changes.

No functional change intended.

enable profiling of assembly functions.

Remove clause 3 and 4 from TNF licenses

Don't put membar in the delay slot. thorpej@ says it may be problematic.

Fix the aliases.

Memory barriers for sparc64. XXX Can the 'membar' go in retl delay slot?