we might as well handle the per process cycle
counter in the portable part instead of duplicating the code
in every arch and have inconsistent implementations.
we now have a portable kenter() and kexit() function,
that is ment to be used in trap/syscall from user,
which updates the counters.
some kernels missed initializing Mach.cyclefreq.
spectacular bug. cmpswap() had a sign extension bug
using sign extending MOV to load the old compare
value and LDXRW using zero extension while the CMP
instruction compared 64 bit registers.
this caused cmpswap with negative old value always
to fail.
interestingly, libc's version of this function was
fine.
the new raspberry pi 4 firmware for arm64 seems to have
broken atag support. so we now parse the device tree
structure to get the bootargs and memory configuration.
when the exclusive monitor is cleared, a event is generated
which we can use to wake up idlehands. that way we do not
need to wait for the next timer interrupt until a cpu takes
work from the run queue.
