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Merge branches 'cond_resched.2017.12.04a', 'dyntick.2017.11.28a', 'fixes.2017.12.11a', 'srbd.2017.12.05a' and 'torture.2017.12.11a' into HEAD

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cond_resched.2017.12.04a: Convert cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched()
dyntick.2017.11.28a: Make RCU dynticks handle interrupts from NMI
fixes.2017.12.11a: Miscellaneous fixes
srbd.2017.12.05a: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends()
torture.2017.12.11a: Torture-testing update
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Paul E. McKenney
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@@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ This guarantee was only partially premeditated.
DYNIX/ptx used an explicit memory barrier for publication, but had nothing
resembling <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> for subscription, nor did it
have anything resembling the <tt>smp_read_barrier_depends()</tt>
that was later subsumed into <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt>.
that was later subsumed into <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> and later
still into <tt>READ_ONCE()</tt>.
The need for these operations made itself known quite suddenly at a
late-1990s meeting with the DEC Alpha architects, back in the days when
DEC was still a free-standing company.