Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
- An optimization and a fix for RCU expedited grace periods, with
the fix being from Boqun Feng.
- Miscellaneous fixes, including a lockdep-annotation fix from
Boqun Feng.
- SRCU updates.
- Updates to rcutorture and associated scripting.
- 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.
- Additional miscellaneous fixes, including those contributed by
Byungchul Park, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Joe Perches, Joel Fernandes,
Steven Rostedt, Andrea Parri, and Neil Brown.
- Additional torture-test changes, including several contributed by
Arnd Bergmann and Joel Fernandes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
