BUG/MINOR: task: close a tiny race in the inter-thread wakeup
__task_wakeup() takes care of a small race that exists between threads,
but it uses a store barrier that is not sufficient since apparently the
state read after clearing the leaf_p pointer sometimes is incorrect. This
results in missed wakeups between threads competing at a high rate. Let's
use a full barrier instead to serialize the operations.
This may be backported to 1.9 though it's extremely unlikely that this
bug will ever manifest itself there.
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