It came to my attention that the file "whatisRCU.txt" does not
manage to actually ever spell out what is RCU.

This might not be an issue for a lot of people, but we have to
assume the consumers of these documents are starting from ground
zero; otherwise they'd not be reading the docs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

cond_resched.2017.12.04a: Convert cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched()
dyntick.2017.11.28a: Make RCU dynticks handle interrupts from NMI
fixes.2017.12.11a: Miscellaneous fixes
srbd.2017.12.05a: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends()
torture.2017.12.11a: Torture-testing update

This commit keeps only the historical and low-level discussion of
smp_read_barrier_depends().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Adjusted to allow for David Howells feedback on prior commit. ]

Now that cond_resched() also provides RCU quiescent states when
needed, it can be used in place of cond_resched_rcu_qs().  This
commit therefore documents this change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - Documentation updates

   - RCU CPU stall-warning updates

   - Torture-test updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes

  Size wise the biggest updates are to documentation. Excluding
  documentation most of the code increase comes from a single commit
  which expands debugging"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  srcu: Add parameters to SRCU docbook comments
  doc: Rewrite confusing statement about memory barriers
  memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in pairing example
  rcu/segcblist: Include rcupdate.h
  rcu: Add extended-quiescent-state testing advice
  rcu: Suppress lockdep false-positive ->boost_mtx complaints
  rcu: Do not include rtmutex_common.h unconditionally
  torture: Provide TMPDIR environment variable to specify tmpdir
  rcutorture: Dump writer stack if stalled
  rcutorture: Add interrupt-disable capability to stall-warning tests
  rcu: Suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while dumping trace
  rcu: Turn off tracing before dumping trace
  rcu: Make RCU CPU stall warnings check for irq-disabled CPUs
  sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() provide RCU quiescent state
  sched: Make resched_cpu() unconditional
  irq_work: Map irq_work_on_queue() to irq_work_on() in !SMP
  rcu: Create call_rcu_tasks() kthread at boot time
  rcu: Fix up pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle
  memory-barriers: Rework multicopy-atomicity section
  memory-barriers: Replace uses of "transitive"
  ...

Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The RCU CPU stall warnings have morphed significantly since the last
update, so this commit brings the documentation up to date.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

If a fast system has a worst-case grace-period duration of (say) ten
seconds, then running the same workload on a system ten times as slow
will get you an RCU CPU stall warning given default stall-warning
timeout settings.  This commit therefore adds this possibility to
stallwarn.txt.

Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

If a periodic interrupt's handler takes longer to execute than the period
between successive interrupts, RCU's kthreads and softirq handlers can
be prevented from executing, resulting in otherwise inexplicable RCU
CPU stall warnings.  This commit therefore calls out this possibility
in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt.

Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>