Use C++11 atomics for ticket locks implementation
This patch replaces use of compiler builtin atomics with C++11 atomics for ticket locks implementation. Ticket locks are used in critical places of the runtime, e.g. in the tasking mechanism. The main reason this change was introduced is the problem with work stealing function on ARM architecture which suffered from nasty race condition. It turned out that the root cause of the problem lies in the way ticket locks are implemented. Changing compiler builtins into C++11 atomics solves the problem. Two assertions were added into kmp_tasking.c which are useful for detecting early symptoms of something wrong going on with work stealing, which were among the possible outcomes of the race condition. Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19878 llvm-svn: 271324
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