stop_machine: Avoid potential race behaviour
Both multi_cpu_stop() and set_state() access multi_stop_data::state racily using plain accesses. These are subject to compiler transformations which could break the intended behaviour of the code, and this situation is detected by KCSAN on both arm64 and x86 (splats below). Improve matters by using READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() to ensure that the compiler cannot elide, replay, or tear loads and stores. In multi_cpu_stop() the two loads of multi_stop_data::state are expected to be a consistent value, so snapshot the value into a temporary variable to ensure this. The state transitions are serialized by atomic manipulation of multi_stop_data::num_threads, and other fields in multi_stop_data are not modified while subject to concurrent reads. KCSAN splat on arm64: | BUG: KCSAN: data-race in multi_cpu_stop+0xa8/0x198 and set_state+0x80/0xb0 | | write to 0xffff00001003bd00 of 4 bytes by task 24 on cpu 3: | set_state+0x80/0xb0 | multi_cpu_stop+0x16c/0x198 | cp...
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