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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 01:36:44PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> What we do in some code is to comment the pairings, allowing the other
> side of the pairing to be easily located.  Would that work for you?

I would say that that is mandatory for any memory ordering code ;-)