srcu: Add an API for a memory barrier after SRCU read lock

To avoid redundant memory barriers, add smp_mb__after_srcu_read_lock() to
pair with smp_mb__after_srcu_read_unlock() for use in paths that need to
emit a memory barrier, but already do srcu_read_lock(), which includes a
full memory barrier.  Provide an API, e.g. as opposed to having callers
document the behavior via a comment, as the full memory barrier provided
by srcu_read_lock() is an implementation detail that shouldn't bleed into
random subsystems.

KVM will use smp_mb__after_srcu_read_lock() in it's VM-Exit path to ensure
a memory barrier is emitted, which is necessary to ensure correctness of
mixed memory types on CPUs that support self-snoop.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
[sean: massage changelog]
Tested-by: Xiangfei Ma <xiangfeix.ma@intel.com>
Tested-by: Yongwei Ma <yongwei.ma@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240309010929.1403984-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

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