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Pull RCU updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A large update to RCU:
Preparatory work for consolidating the RCU flavors:
- Introduce grace-period sequence numbers to the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt,
and RCU-sched flavors, replacing the old ->gpnum and ->completed
pair of fields.
This change allows lockless code to obtain the complete
grace-period state with a single READ_ONCE(), which is needed to
maintain tolerable lock contention during the upcoming
consolidation of the three RCU flavors.
Note that grace-period sequence numbers are already used by
rcu_barrier(), expedited RCU grace periods, and SRCU, and are thus
already heavily used and well-tested. Joel Fernandes contributed a
number of excellent fixes and improvements.
- Clean up some grace-period-reporting loose ends, including
improving the handling of quiescent states from offline CPUs and
fixing some false-positive WARN_ON_ONCE() invocations.
(Strictly speaking, the WARN_ON_ONCE() invocations were quite
correct, but their invariants were (harmlessly) violated by the
earlier sloppy handling of quiescent states from offline CPUs.)
In addition, improve grace-period forward-progress guarantees so as
to allow removal of fail-safe checks that required otherwise
needless lock acquisitions. Finally, add more diagnostics to help
debug the upcoming consolidation of the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt, and
RCU-sched flavors.
The rest:
- SRCU updates
- Updates to rcutorture and associated scripting.
- The usual pile of miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (118 commits)
rcutorture: Fix rcu_barrier successes counter
rcutorture: Add support to detect if boost kthread prio is too low
rcutorture: Use monotonic timestamp for stall detection
rcutorture: Make boost test more robust
rcutorture: Disable RT throttling for boost tests
rcutorture: Emphasize testing of single reader protection type
rcutorture: Handle extended read-side critical sections
rcutorture: Make rcu_torture_timer() use rcu_torture_one_read()
rcutorture: Use per-CPU random state for rcu_torture_timer()
rcutorture: Use atomic increment for n_rcu_torture_timers
rcutorture: Extract common code from rcu_torture_reader()
rcuperf: Remove unused torturing_tasks() function
rcu: Remove rcutorture test version and sequence number
rcutorture: Change units of onoff_interval to jiffies
rcu: Assign higher prio to RCU threads if rcutorture is built-in
rculist: Improve documentation for list_for_each_entry_from_rcu()
srcu: Add grace-period number to rcutorture statistics printout
rcu: Print stall-warning NMI dyntick state in hexadecimal
MAINTAINERS: Update RCU, SRCU, and TORTURE-TEST entries
rcu: Make rcu_seq_diff() more exact
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