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<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2019-03-09T17:56:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2019-03-09T17:56:17+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
  documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
  adjustments from Thomas"

* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
  docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
  Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
  doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
  docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
  Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -&gt; 5.x versioning
  docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
  doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
  doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
  Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
  scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
  doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
  Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
  doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
  doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
  perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
  perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
  perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
  perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
  sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
  docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -&gt; "if ... is"
  ...
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
  documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
  adjustments from Thomas"

* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
  docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
  Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
  doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
  docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
  Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -&gt; 5.x versioning
  docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
  doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
  doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
  Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
  scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
  doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
  Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
  doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
  doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
  perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
  perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
  perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
  perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
  sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
  docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -&gt; "if ... is"
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states</title>
<updated>2019-03-04T19:55:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-01T09:40:52+00:00</published>
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Since the removal of FS_RECLAIM annotations, lockdep states contain four
characters, not six.

Fixes: e5684bbfc3f03480 ("Documentation/locking/lockdep: Update info about states")
Fixes: d92a8cfcb37ecd13 ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Since the removal of FS_RECLAIM annotations, lockdep states contain four
characters, not six.

Fixes: e5684bbfc3f03480 ("Documentation/locking/lockdep: Update info about states")
Fixes: d92a8cfcb37ecd13 ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<title>doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning</title>
<updated>2019-03-04T19:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-28T10:59:32+00:00</published>
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Suspicious RCU usage messages are reported as warnings.

Fixes: a5dd63efda3d07b5 ("lockdep: Use "WARNING" tag on lockdep splats")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Suspicious RCU usage messages are reported as warnings.

Fixes: a5dd63efda3d07b5 ("lockdep: Use "WARNING" tag on lockdep splats")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2019.01.26a', 'fixes.2019.01.26a', 'sil.2019.01.26a', 'spdx.2019.02.09a', 'srcu.2019.01.26a' and 'torture.2019.01.26a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2019-02-09T16:47:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-09T16:47:52+00:00</published>
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doc.2019.01.26a:  Documentation updates.
fixes.2019.01.26a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
sil.2019.01.26a:  Removal of a few more spin_is_locked() instances.
spdx.2019.02.09a:  Add SPDX identifiers to RCU files
srcu.2019.01.26a:  SRCU updates.
torture.2019.01.26a: Torture-test updates.
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doc.2019.01.26a:  Documentation updates.
fixes.2019.01.26a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
sil.2019.01.26a:  Removal of a few more spin_is_locked() instances.
spdx.2019.02.09a:  Add SPDX identifiers to RCU files
srcu.2019.01.26a:  SRCU updates.
torture.2019.01.26a: Torture-test updates.
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<entry>
<title>RCU/torture.txt: Remove section MODULE PARAMETERS</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T23:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junchang Wang</name>
<email>junchangwang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T14:24:51+00:00</published>
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The supported module parameters are detailed in both RCU/torture.txt and
admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, and the latter is actively maintained.
So this patch removes section MODULE PARAMETERS in torture.txt and
adds a reference to the information in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang &lt;junchangwang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Add search string. ]
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The supported module parameters are detailed in both RCU/torture.txt and
admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, and the latter is actively maintained.
So this patch removes section MODULE PARAMETERS in torture.txt and
adds a reference to the information in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang &lt;junchangwang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Add search string. ]
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Rename rcu_process_callbacks() to rcu_core() for Tree RCU</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T23:35:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-21T20:42:12+00:00</published>
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Although the name rcu_process_callbacks() still makes sense for Tiny
RCU, where most of what it does is invoke callbacks, it no longer makes
much sense for Tree RCU, especially given that the actually callback
invocation is relegated to rcu_do_batch(), or, for no-CBs CPUs, to the
rcuo kthreads.  Especially in the latter case, rcu_process_callbacks()
has very little to do with actual callbacks.  A better description of
this function is that it performs RCU's core processing.

This commit therefore changes the name of Tree RCU's rcu_process_callbacks()
function to rcu_core(), which also has the virtue of being consistent with
the existing invoke_rcu_core() function.

While in the area, the header comment is reworked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Although the name rcu_process_callbacks() still makes sense for Tiny
RCU, where most of what it does is invoke callbacks, it no longer makes
much sense for Tree RCU, especially given that the actually callback
invocation is relegated to rcu_do_batch(), or, for no-CBs CPUs, to the
rcuo kthreads.  Especially in the latter case, rcu_process_callbacks()
has very little to do with actual callbacks.  A better description of
this function is that it performs RCU's core processing.

This commit therefore changes the name of Tree RCU's rcu_process_callbacks()
function to rcu_core(), which also has the virtue of being consistent with
the existing invoke_rcu_core() function.

While in the area, the header comment is reworked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq()</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T23:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-21T19:35:03+00:00</published>
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The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early
2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has
become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle
and NO_HZ_FULL.  The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into
the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that
callbacks get promoted to invocable state.

This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(),
which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this
function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel.  In addition, for
the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed
to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().

While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early
2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has
become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle
and NO_HZ_FULL.  The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into
the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that
callbacks get promoted to invocable state.

This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(),
which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this
function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel.  In addition, for
the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed
to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().

While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Fix outdated links</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T23:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junchang Wang</name>
<email>junchangwang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-01T14:03:19+00:00</published>
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Fix outdated links in whatisRCU.txt.

Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang &lt;junchangwang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Fix outdated links in whatisRCU.txt.

Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang &lt;junchangwang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: CPU-hotplug notifiers cannot invoke synchronize_srcu() or srcu_barrier()</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T23:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-11T16:28:56+00:00</published>
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SRCU's synchronize_srcu() may not be invoked from CPU-hotplug notifiers,
due to the fact that SRCU grace periods make use of timers and the
possibility of timers being temporarily stranded on the outgoing CPU.
This stranding of timers means that timers posted to the outgoing CPU
will not fire until late in the CPU-hotplug process.  The problem is
that if a notifier is waiting on an SRCU grace period, that grace period
is waiting on a timer, and that timer is stranded on the outgoing CPU,
then the notifier will never be awakened, in other words, deadlock has
occurred.  This same situation of course also prohibits srcu_barrier()
from being invoked from CPU-hotplug notifiers.

This commit therefore updates the requirements to include this restriction.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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SRCU's synchronize_srcu() may not be invoked from CPU-hotplug notifiers,
due to the fact that SRCU grace periods make use of timers and the
possibility of timers being temporarily stranded on the outgoing CPU.
This stranding of timers means that timers posted to the outgoing CPU
will not fire until late in the CPU-hotplug process.  The problem is
that if a notifier is waiting on an SRCU grace period, that grace period
is waiting on a timer, and that timer is stranded on the outgoing CPU,
then the notifier will never be awakened, in other words, deadlock has
occurred.  This same situation of course also prohibits srcu_barrier()
from being invoked from CPU-hotplug notifiers.

This commit therefore updates the requirements to include this restriction.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Discard separate per-CPU callback counts</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T23:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-29T21:28:49+00:00</published>
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Back when there were multiple flavors of RCU, it was necessary to
separately count lazy and non-lazy callbacks for each CPU.  These counts
were used in CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels to determine how long a newly
idle CPU should be allowed to sleep before handling its RCU callbacks.
But now that there is only one flavor, the callback counts for a given
CPU's sole rcu_data structure are the counts for that CPU.

This commit therefore removes the rcu_data structure's -&gt;nonlazy_posted
and -&gt;nonlazy_posted_snap fields, the rcu_idle_count_callbacks_posted()
and rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() functions, repurposes the rcu_data structure's
-&gt;all_lazy field to record the laziness state at the beginning of the
latest idle sojourn, and modifies CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ RCU CPU stall
warnings accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Back when there were multiple flavors of RCU, it was necessary to
separately count lazy and non-lazy callbacks for each CPU.  These counts
were used in CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels to determine how long a newly
idle CPU should be allowed to sleep before handling its RCU callbacks.
But now that there is only one flavor, the callback counts for a given
CPU's sole rcu_data structure are the counts for that CPU.

This commit therefore removes the rcu_data structure's -&gt;nonlazy_posted
and -&gt;nonlazy_posted_snap fields, the rcu_idle_count_callbacks_posted()
and rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() functions, repurposes the rcu_data structure's
-&gt;all_lazy field to record the laziness state at the beginning of the
latest idle sojourn, and modifies CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ RCU CPU stall
warnings accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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