locking/xchg/alpha: Clean up barrier usage by using smp_mb() in place of __ASM__MB

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Replace each occurrence of __ASM__MB with a (trailing) smp_mb() in
xchg(), cmpxchg(), and remove the now unused __ASM__MB definitions;
this improves readability, with no additional synchronization cost.

Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519291469-5702-1-git-send-email-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Andrea Parri 2018-02-22 10:24:29 +01:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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