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    rcu: Consolidate last open-coded expedited memory barrier · 704dd435
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    One of the requirements on RCU grace periods is that if there is a
    causal chain of operations that starts after one grace period and
    ends before another grace period, then the two grace periods must
    be serialized.  There has been (and might still be) code that relies
    on this, for example, certain types of reference-counting code that
    does a call_rcu() within an RCU callback function.
    
    This requirement is why there is an smp_mb() at the end of both
    synchronize_sched_expedited() and synchronize_rcu_expedited().
    However, this is the only smp_mb() in these functions, so it would
    be nicer to consolidate it into rcu_exp_gp_seq_end().  This commit
    does just that.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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