ArmPkg/ArmMmuLib ARM: cache-invalidate initial page table entries

In the ARM version of ArmMmuLib, we are currently relying on set/way
invalidation to ensure that the caches are in a consistent state with
respect to main memory once we turn the MMU on. Even if set/way
operations were the appropriate method to achieve this, doing an
invalidate-all first and then populating the page table entries creates
a window where page table entries could be loaded speculatively into
the caches before we modify them, and shadow the new values that we
write there.

So let's get rid of the blanket clean/invalidate operations, and instead,
invalidate each page table right after allocating it, and each section
entry after it is updated (to address all the little corner cases that the
ARMv7 spec permits), and invalidate sets of level 2 entries in blocks,
using the generic invalidation routine from CacheMaintenanceLib

On ARMv7, cache maintenance may be required also when the MMU is
enabled, in case the page table walker is not cache coherent. However,
the code being updated here is guaranteed to run only when the MMU is
still off, and so we can disregard the case when the MMU and caches
are on.

Since the MMU and D-cache are already off when we reach this point, we
can drop the MMU and D-cache disables as well. Maintenance of the I-cache
is unnecessary, since we are not modifying any code, and the installed
mapping is guaranteed to be 1:1. This means we can also leave it enabled
while the page table population code is running.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>

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