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<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-11-13T20:18:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-13T20:18:10+00:00</published>
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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 -&gt;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"
  ...
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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 -&gt;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"
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: fix ref to workqueue content</title>
<updated>2017-10-19T18:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Saeger</name>
<email>tom.saeger@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-12T20:23:48+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<title>documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees</title>
<updated>2017-10-09T21:23:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-08T00:23:20+00:00</published>
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This commit provides text and diagrams showing how Tree RCU implements
its grace-period memory ordering guarantees.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This commit provides text and diagrams showing how Tree RCU implements
its grace-period memory ordering guarantees.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>doc: Set down RCU's scheduling-clock-interrupt needs</title>
<updated>2017-08-17T14:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-19T16:52:58+00:00</published>
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This commit documents the situations in which RCU needs the
scheduling-clock interrupt to be enabled, along with the consequences
of failing to meet RCU's needs in this area.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit documents the situations in which RCU needs the
scheduling-clock interrupt to be enabled, along with the consequences
of failing to meet RCU's needs in this area.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Remove debugfs tracing</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T01:52:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-15T22:30:32+00:00</published>
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RCU's debugfs tracing used to be the only reasonable low-level debug
information available, but ftrace and event tracing has since surpassed
the RCU debugfs level of usefulness.  This commit therefore removes
RCU's debugfs tracing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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RCU's debugfs tracing used to be the only reasonable low-level debug
information available, but ftrace and event tracing has since surpassed
the RCU debugfs level of usefulness.  This commit therefore removes
RCU's debugfs tracing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T01:52:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-12T22:56:35+00:00</published>
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The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional.  This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
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The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional.  This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T01:52:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-11T18:26:22+00:00</published>
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The NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE full-system-idle capability was added in 2013
by commit 0edd1b1784cb ("nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine"),
but has not been used.  This commit therefore removes it.

If it turns out to be needed later, this commit can always be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE full-system-idle capability was added in 2013
by commit 0edd1b1784cb ("nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine"),
but has not been used.  This commit therefore removes it.

If it turns out to be needed later, this commit can always be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>doc: Take tail recursion into account in RCU requirements</title>
<updated>2017-06-08T15:25:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-27T20:25:41+00:00</published>
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This commit classifies tail recursion as an alternative way to write
a loop, with similar limitations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit classifies tail recursion as an alternative way to write
a loop, with similar limitations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>srcu: Document auto-expediting requirement</title>
<updated>2017-06-08T15:25:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-27T20:16:15+00:00</published>
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This commit documents the auto-expediting requirement satisfied by
commits 2da4b2a7fd8d ("srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle")
and 22607d66bbc3 ("srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time").

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit documents the auto-expediting requirement satisfied by
commits 2da4b2a7fd8d ("srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle")
and 22607d66bbc3 ("srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time").

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2017.04.12a', 'fixes.2017.04.19a' and 'srcu.2017.04.21a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T13:00:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-21T13:00:13+00:00</published>
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doc.2017.04.12a: Documentation updates
fixes.2017.04.19a: Miscellaneous fixes
srcu.2017.04.21a: Parallelize SRCU callback handling
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doc.2017.04.12a: Documentation updates
fixes.2017.04.19a: Miscellaneous fixes
srcu.2017.04.21a: Parallelize SRCU callback handling
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