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    smp: Make control dependencies work on Alpha, improve documentation · 5af4692a
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    The current formulation of control dependencies fails on DEC Alpha,
    which does not respect dependencies of any kind unless an explicit
    memory barrier is provided.  This means that the current fomulation of
    control dependencies fails on Alpha.  This commit therefore creates a
    READ_ONCE_CTRL() that has the same overhead on non-Alpha systems, but
    causes Alpha to produce the needed ordering.  This commit also applies
    READ_ONCE_CTRL() to the one known use of control dependencies.
    
    Use of READ_ONCE_CTRL() also has the beneficial effect of adding a bit
    of self-documentation to control dependencies.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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