Dave hit the problem fixed by commit:

  b6e13e85 ("sched/core: Fix ttwu() race")

and failed to understand much of the code involved. Per his request a
few comments to (hopefully) clarify things.
Requested-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702125211.GQ4800@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net