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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/locking, branch v7.0.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>locking/mutex: Rename mutex_init_lockep()</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:08:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-17T19:15:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8b65eb52d93e4e496bd26e6867152344554eb39e ]

Typo, this wants to be _lockdep().

Fixes: 51d7a054521d ("locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217191512.1180151-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8b65eb52d93e4e496bd26e6867152344554eb39e ]

Typo, this wants to be _lockdep().

Fixes: 51d7a054521d ("locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217191512.1180151-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keenan Dong</name>
<email>keenanat2000@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-08T08:46:00+00:00</published>
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commit 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 upstream.

remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().

In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:

  1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held

  2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
     dangling pointer primed for UAF around.

  3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
     task

Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.

[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
  	changelog ]

Fixes: 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong &lt;keenanat2000@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 upstream.

remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().

In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:

  1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held

  2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
     dangling pointer primed for UAF around.

  3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
     task

Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.

[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
  	changelog ]

Fixes: 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong &lt;keenanat2000@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>test-ww_mutex: Allow test to be run (and re-run) from userland</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T09:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>jstultz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T01:35:11+00:00</published>
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In cases where the ww_mutex test was occasionally tripping on
hard to find issues, leaving qemu in a reboot loop was my best
way to reproduce problems. These reboots however wasted time
when I just wanted to run the test-ww_mutex logic.

So tweak the test-ww_mutex test so that it can be re-triggered
via a sysfs file, so the test can be run repeatedly without
doing module loads or restarting.

This has been particularly valuable to stressing and finding
issues with the proxy-exec series.

To use, run as root:
  echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/test_ww_mutex/run_tests

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205013515.759030-4-jstultz@google.com
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In cases where the ww_mutex test was occasionally tripping on
hard to find issues, leaving qemu in a reboot loop was my best
way to reproduce problems. These reboots however wasted time
when I just wanted to run the test-ww_mutex logic.

So tweak the test-ww_mutex test so that it can be re-triggered
via a sysfs file, so the test can be run repeatedly without
doing module loads or restarting.

This has been particularly valuable to stressing and finding
issues with the proxy-exec series.

To use, run as root:
  echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/test_ww_mutex/run_tests

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205013515.759030-4-jstultz@google.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>test-ww_mutex: Move work to its own UNBOUND workqueue</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T09:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>jstultz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T01:35:10+00:00</published>
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The test-ww_mutex test already allocates its own workqueue
so be sure to use it for the mtx.work and abba.work rather
then the default system workqueue.

This resolves numerous messages of the sort:
"workqueue: test_abba_work hogged CPU... consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND"
"workqueue: test_mutex_work hogged CPU... consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND"

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205013515.759030-3-jstultz@google.com
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The test-ww_mutex test already allocates its own workqueue
so be sure to use it for the mtx.work and abba.work rather
then the default system workqueue.

This resolves numerous messages of the sort:
"workqueue: test_abba_work hogged CPU... consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND"
"workqueue: test_mutex_work hogged CPU... consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND"

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205013515.759030-3-jstultz@google.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>test-ww_mutex: Extend ww_mutex tests to test both classes of ww_mutexes</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T09:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>jstultz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T01:35:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=34d80c93a5bbf38938e8c215ec6c938807edeaf0'/>
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Currently the test-ww_mutex tool only utilizes the wait-die
class of ww_mutexes, and thus isn't very helpful in exercising
the wait-wound class of ww_mutexes.

So extend the test to exercise both classes of ww_mutexes for
all of the subtests.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205013515.759030-2-jstultz@google.com
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Currently the test-ww_mutex tool only utilizes the wait-die
class of ww_mutexes, and thus isn't very helpful in exercising
the wait-wound class of ww_mutexes.

So extend the test to exercise both classes of ww_mutexes for
all of the subtests.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205013515.759030-2-jstultz@google.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux</title>
<updated>2025-12-03T20:18:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T20:18:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=98e7dcbb82fa57de8dfad357f9b851c3625797fa'/>
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Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "SRCU:

   - Properly handle SRCU readers within IRQ disabled sections in tiny
     SRCU

   - Preparation to reimplement RCU Tasks Trace on top of SRCU fast:

      - Introduce API to expedite a grace period and test it through
        rcutorture

      - Split srcu-fast in two flavours: SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown.

        Both are still targeted toward faster readers (without full
        barriers on LOCK and UNLOCK) at the expense of heavier write
        side (using full RCU grace period ordering instead of simply
        full ordering) as compared to "traditional" non-fast SRCU. But
        those srcu-fast flavours are going to be optimized in two
        different ways:

          - SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for
            RCU-TASK-TRACE for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must
            be NMI safe, SRCU-fast must be as well.

          - SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order
            to get rid of the read-side memory barriers while still
            allowing entering the reader at task level while exiting it
            in a timer handler. It is considered semaphore-like in that
            it can have different owners between LOCK and UNLOCK.
            However it is not NMI-safe.

        The actual optimizations are work in progress for the next
        cycle. Only the new interfaces are added for now, along with
        related torture and scalability test code.

   - Create/document/debug/torture new proper initializers for RCU fast:
     DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()

     This allows for using right away the proper ordering on the write
     side (either full ordering or full RCU grace period ordering)
     without waiting for the read side to tell which to use.

     This also optimizes the read side altogether with moving flavour
     debug checks under debug config and with removing a costly RmW
     operation on their first call.

   - Make some diagnostic functions tracing safe

  Refscale:

   - Add performance testing for common context synchronizations
     (Preemption, IRQ, Softirq) and per-cpu increments. Those are
     relevant comparisons against SRCU-fast read side APIs, especially
     as they are planned to synchronize further tracing fast-path code

  Miscellanous:

   - In order to prepare the layout for nohz_full work deferral to user
     exit, the context tracking state must shrink the counter of
     transitions to/from RCU not watching. The only possible hazard is
     to trigger wrap-around more easily, delaying a bit grace periods
     when that happens. This should be a rare event though. Yet add
     debugging and torture code to test that assumption

   - Fix memory leak on locktorture module

   - Annotate accesses in rculist_nulls.h to prevent from KCSAN
     warnings. On recent discussions, we also concluded that all those
     WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on list APIs deserve appropriate
     comments. Something to be expected for the next cycle

   - Provide a script to apply several configs to several commits with
     torture

   - Allow torture to reuse a build directory in order to save needless
     rebuild time

   - Various cleanups"

* tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (29 commits)
  refscale: Add SRCU-fast-updown readers
  refscale: Exercise DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
  rcutorture: Make srcu{,d}_torture_init() announce the SRCU type
  srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API
  refscale: Do not disable interrupts for tests involving local_bh_enable()
  refscale: Add non-atomic per-CPU increment readers
  refscale: Add this_cpu_inc() readers
  refscale: Add preempt_disable() readers
  refscale: Add local_bh_disable() readers
  refscale: Add local_irq_disable() and local_irq_save() readers
  torture: Permit negative kvm.sh --kconfig numberic arguments
  srcu: Add SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN CPP macro
  rcu: Mark diagnostic functions as notrace
  rcutorture: Make TREE04 use CONFIG_RCU_DYNTICKS_TORTURE
  rcutorture: Remove redundant rcutorture_one_extend() from rcu_torture_one_read()
  rcutorture: Permit kvm-again.sh to re-use the build directory
  torture: Add kvm-series.sh to test commit/scenario combination
  rcu: use WRITE_ONCE() for -&gt;next and -&gt;pprev of hlist_nulls
  locktorture: Fix memory leak in param_set_cpumask()
  doc: Update for SRCU-fast definitions and initialization
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "SRCU:

   - Properly handle SRCU readers within IRQ disabled sections in tiny
     SRCU

   - Preparation to reimplement RCU Tasks Trace on top of SRCU fast:

      - Introduce API to expedite a grace period and test it through
        rcutorture

      - Split srcu-fast in two flavours: SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown.

        Both are still targeted toward faster readers (without full
        barriers on LOCK and UNLOCK) at the expense of heavier write
        side (using full RCU grace period ordering instead of simply
        full ordering) as compared to "traditional" non-fast SRCU. But
        those srcu-fast flavours are going to be optimized in two
        different ways:

          - SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for
            RCU-TASK-TRACE for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must
            be NMI safe, SRCU-fast must be as well.

          - SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order
            to get rid of the read-side memory barriers while still
            allowing entering the reader at task level while exiting it
            in a timer handler. It is considered semaphore-like in that
            it can have different owners between LOCK and UNLOCK.
            However it is not NMI-safe.

        The actual optimizations are work in progress for the next
        cycle. Only the new interfaces are added for now, along with
        related torture and scalability test code.

   - Create/document/debug/torture new proper initializers for RCU fast:
     DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()

     This allows for using right away the proper ordering on the write
     side (either full ordering or full RCU grace period ordering)
     without waiting for the read side to tell which to use.

     This also optimizes the read side altogether with moving flavour
     debug checks under debug config and with removing a costly RmW
     operation on their first call.

   - Make some diagnostic functions tracing safe

  Refscale:

   - Add performance testing for common context synchronizations
     (Preemption, IRQ, Softirq) and per-cpu increments. Those are
     relevant comparisons against SRCU-fast read side APIs, especially
     as they are planned to synchronize further tracing fast-path code

  Miscellanous:

   - In order to prepare the layout for nohz_full work deferral to user
     exit, the context tracking state must shrink the counter of
     transitions to/from RCU not watching. The only possible hazard is
     to trigger wrap-around more easily, delaying a bit grace periods
     when that happens. This should be a rare event though. Yet add
     debugging and torture code to test that assumption

   - Fix memory leak on locktorture module

   - Annotate accesses in rculist_nulls.h to prevent from KCSAN
     warnings. On recent discussions, we also concluded that all those
     WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on list APIs deserve appropriate
     comments. Something to be expected for the next cycle

   - Provide a script to apply several configs to several commits with
     torture

   - Allow torture to reuse a build directory in order to save needless
     rebuild time

   - Various cleanups"

* tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (29 commits)
  refscale: Add SRCU-fast-updown readers
  refscale: Exercise DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
  rcutorture: Make srcu{,d}_torture_init() announce the SRCU type
  srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API
  refscale: Do not disable interrupts for tests involving local_bh_enable()
  refscale: Add non-atomic per-CPU increment readers
  refscale: Add this_cpu_inc() readers
  refscale: Add preempt_disable() readers
  refscale: Add local_bh_disable() readers
  refscale: Add local_irq_disable() and local_irq_save() readers
  torture: Permit negative kvm.sh --kconfig numberic arguments
  srcu: Add SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN CPP macro
  rcu: Mark diagnostic functions as notrace
  rcutorture: Make TREE04 use CONFIG_RCU_DYNTICKS_TORTURE
  rcutorture: Remove redundant rcutorture_one_extend() from rcu_torture_one_read()
  rcutorture: Permit kvm-again.sh to re-use the build directory
  torture: Add kvm-series.sh to test commit/scenario combination
  rcu: use WRITE_ONCE() for -&gt;next and -&gt;pprev of hlist_nulls
  locktorture: Fix memory leak in param_set_cpumask()
  doc: Update for SRCU-fast definitions and initialization
  ...
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