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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/RCU/Design, branch v5.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T23:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhouyi Zhou</name>
<email>zhouzhouyi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-25T21:43:33+00:00</published>
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Invoking scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py in the Linux-kernel source tree
located the following issues:

1. TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Referencing files: arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig

It should now be CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Except that the CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in
that same file implies CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y.  Therefore, delete the
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y line.

The reason is as follows:

In kernel/rcu/Kconfig, we have
config PREEMPT_RCU
        bool
        default y if PREEMPTION

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt says,
"The default value is only assigned to the config symbol if no other value
 was set by the user (via the input prompt above)."
there is no prompt in config PREEMPT_RCU entry, so we are guaranteed to
get CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y when CONFIG_PREEMPT is present.

2. RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
Referencing files: arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig

The old Kconfig option RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO was removed by commit
75c27f119b64 ("rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO"), and the kernel
now acts as if this Kconfig option was unconditionally enabled.

3. RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
Referencing files:
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst

This is an old snapshot of the code. I update this from the real
rcu_prepare_for_idle() function in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.
This change was tested by invoking "make htmldocs".

4. RCU_TORTURE_TESTS
Referencing files: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

Forward-progress checking conflicts with CPU-stall testing, so we should
complain at "modprobe rcutorture" when both are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Invoking scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py in the Linux-kernel source tree
located the following issues:

1. TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Referencing files: arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig

It should now be CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Except that the CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in
that same file implies CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y.  Therefore, delete the
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y line.

The reason is as follows:

In kernel/rcu/Kconfig, we have
config PREEMPT_RCU
        bool
        default y if PREEMPTION

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt says,
"The default value is only assigned to the config symbol if no other value
 was set by the user (via the input prompt above)."
there is no prompt in config PREEMPT_RCU entry, so we are guaranteed to
get CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y when CONFIG_PREEMPT is present.

2. RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
Referencing files: arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig

The old Kconfig option RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO was removed by commit
75c27f119b64 ("rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO"), and the kernel
now acts as if this Kconfig option was unconditionally enabled.

3. RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
Referencing files:
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst

This is an old snapshot of the code. I update this from the real
rcu_prepare_for_idle() function in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.
This change was tested by invoking "make htmldocs".

4. RCU_TORTURE_TESTS
Referencing files: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

Forward-progress checking conflicts with CPU-stall testing, so we should
complain at "modprobe rcutorture" when both are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu/doc: Add a quick quiz to explain further why we need smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T20:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-10T15:50:29+00:00</published>
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Add some missing critical pieces of explanation to understand the need
for full memory barriers throughout the whole grace period state machine,
thanks to Paul's explanations.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Adjust code block per Akira Yokosawa. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Add some missing critical pieces of explanation to understand the need
for full memory barriers throughout the whole grace period state machine,
thanks to Paul's explanations.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Adjust code block per Akira Yokosawa. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/RCU: Fix nested inline markup</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T20:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akira Yokosawa</name>
<email>akiyks@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-21T02:16:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4966090849e96f4db1e115b77d2cfb68c2f73264'/>
<id>4966090849e96f4db1e115b77d2cfb68c2f73264</id>
<content type='text'>
To avoid the ``foo`` markup inside the `bar`__ hyperlink marker,
use the "replace" directive [1].

This should restore the intended appearance of the link.

Tested with sphinx versions 1.7.9 and 2.4.4.

[1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#replace

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa &lt;akiyks@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
To avoid the ``foo`` markup inside the `bar`__ hyperlink marker,
use the "replace" directive [1].

This should restore the intended appearance of the link.

Tested with sphinx versions 1.7.9 and 2.4.4.

[1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#replace

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa &lt;akiyks@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Fix diagram references in memory-ordering document</title>
<updated>2021-05-10T22:39:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-04T21:58:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=58d0db869d7ab8ca97b521f167022caa2c42cbe7'/>
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<content type='text'>
The three diagrams describing rcu_gp_init() all spuriously refer to
the same figure, probably due to a copy/paste issue.  This commit fixes
these references.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The three diagrams describing rcu_gp_init() all spuriously refer to
the same figure, probably due to a copy/paste issue.  This commit fixes
these references.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Fix statement of RCU's memory-ordering requirements</title>
<updated>2021-05-10T22:39:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-19T23:30:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=18389c4570211e10e94f4a2ce907d01397abc335'/>
<id>18389c4570211e10e94f4a2ce907d01397abc335</id>
<content type='text'>
The sentence defining the relationship of accesses before a grace
period to read-side accesses following that same grace period was
missing a small word: "not".  This commit therefore adds it.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The sentence defining the relationship of accesses before a grace
period to read-side accesses following that same grace period was
missing a small word: "not".  This commit therefore adds it.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-mingo-rcu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu</title>
<updated>2021-02-12T11:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-12T11:50:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=85e853c5ec8486117182baab10c98b321daa6d47'/>
<id>85e853c5ec8486117182baab10c98b321daa6d47</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

- Documentation updates.

- Miscellaneous fixes.

- kfree_rcu() updates: Addition of mem_dump_obj() to provide allocator return
  addresses to more easily locate bugs.  This has a couple of RCU-related commits,
  but is mostly MM.  Was pulled in with akpm's agreement.

- Per-callback-batch tracking of numbers of callbacks,
  which enables better debugging information and smarter
  reactions to large numbers of callbacks.

- The first round of changes to allow CPUs to be runtime switched from and to
  callback-offloaded state.

- CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT-related changes.

- RCU CPU stall warning updates.
- Addition of polling grace-period APIs for SRCU.

- Torture-test and torture-test scripting updates, including a "torture everything"
  script that runs rcutorture, locktorture, scftorture, rcuscale, and refscale.
  Plus does an allmodconfig build.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

- Documentation updates.

- Miscellaneous fixes.

- kfree_rcu() updates: Addition of mem_dump_obj() to provide allocator return
  addresses to more easily locate bugs.  This has a couple of RCU-related commits,
  but is mostly MM.  Was pulled in with akpm's agreement.

- Per-callback-batch tracking of numbers of callbacks,
  which enables better debugging information and smarter
  reactions to large numbers of callbacks.

- The first round of changes to allow CPUs to be runtime switched from and to
  callback-offloaded state.

- CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT-related changes.

- RCU CPU stall warning updates.
- Addition of polling grace-period APIs for SRCU.

- Torture-test and torture-test scripting updates, including a "torture everything"
  script that runs rcutorture, locktorture, scftorture, rcuscale, and refscale.
  Plus does an allmodconfig build.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2021.01.06a', 'fixes.2021.01.04b', 'kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a', 'mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a', 'nocb.2021.01.06a', 'rt.2021.01.04a', 'stall.2021.01.06a', 'torture.2021.01.12a' and 'tortureall.2021.01.06a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-01-22T23:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-22T23:26:44+00:00</published>
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<id>0d2460ba61841e5c2e64e77f7a84d3fc69cfe899</id>
<content type='text'>
doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
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<pre>
doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION</title>
<updated>2021-01-07T00:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T14:16:49+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Update the documents and mention CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Spell out
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT (instead PREEMPT_RT) since it is an option now.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Update the documents and mention CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Spell out
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT (instead PREEMPT_RT) since it is an option now.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Update RCU's requirements page about the PREEMPT_RT wiki</title>
<updated>2021-01-07T00:10:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T14:16:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=361c0f3d80dc3b54c20a19e8ffa2ad728fc1d23d'/>
<id>361c0f3d80dc3b54c20a19e8ffa2ad728fc1d23d</id>
<content type='text'>
The PREEMPT_RT wiki moved from kernel.org to the Linux Foundation wiki.
The kernel.org wiki is read only.

This commit therefore updates the URL of the active PREEMPT_RT wiki.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The PREEMPT_RT wiki moved from kernel.org to the Linux Foundation wiki.
The kernel.org wiki is read only.

This commit therefore updates the URL of the active PREEMPT_RT wiki.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>srcu: Document polling interfaces for Tree SRCU grace periods</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T21:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-19T00:01:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ee7f4a87a18cd3bb141b38e2ef0c3e53253cdf63'/>
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This commit adds requirements documentation for the
get_state_synchronize_srcu(), start_poll_synchronize_srcu(), and
poll_state_synchronize_srcu() functions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20201112201547.GF3365678@moria.home.lan/
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This commit adds requirements documentation for the
get_state_synchronize_srcu(), start_poll_synchronize_srcu(), and
poll_state_synchronize_srcu() functions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20201112201547.GF3365678@moria.home.lan/
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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