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Linus Torvalds 8cc01d43f8 RCU pull request for v6.3
This pull request contains the following branches:
 
 doc.2023.01.05a: Documentation updates.
 
 fixes.2023.01.23a: Miscellaneous fixes, perhaps most notably:
 
 o	Throttling callback invocation based on the number of callbacks
 	that are now ready to invoke instead of on the total number
 	of callbacks.
 
 o	Several patches that suppress false-positive boot-time
 	diagnostics, for example, due to lockdep not yet being
 	initialized.
 
 o	Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings dump stacks of any tasks
 	that are blocking the stalled grace period.  (Normal RCU CPU
 	stall warnings have doen this for mnay years.)
 
 o	Lazy-callback fixes to avoid delays during boot, suspend, and
 	resume.  (Note that lazy callbacks must be explicitly enabled,
 	so this should not (yet) affect production use cases.)
 
 kvfree.2023.01.03a: Cause kfree_rcu() and friends to take advantage of
 	polled grace periods, thus reducing memory footprint by almost
 	two orders of magnitude, admittedly on a microbenchmark.
 	This series also begins the transition from kfree_rcu(p) to
 	kfree_rcu_mightsleep(p).  This transition was motivated by bugs
 	where kfree_rcu(p), which can block, was typed instead of the
 	intended kfree_rcu(p, rh).
 
 srcu.2023.01.03a: SRCU updates, perhaps most notably fixing a bug that
 	causes SRCU to fail when booted on a system with a non-zero boot
 	CPU.  This surprising situation actually happens for kdump kernels
 	on the powerpc architecture.  It also adds an srcu_down_read()
 	and srcu_up_read(), which act like srcu_read_lock() and
 	srcu_read_unlock(), but allow an SRCU read-side critical section
 	to be handed off from one task to another.
 
 srcu-always.2023.02.02a: Cleans up the now-useless SRCU Kconfig option.
 	There are a few more commits that are not yet acked or pulled
 	into maintainer trees, and these will be in a pull request for
 	a later merge window.
 
 tasks.2023.01.03a: RCU-tasks updates, perhaps most notably these fixes:
 
 o	A strange interaction between PID-namespace unshare and the
 	RCU-tasks grace period that results in a low-probability but
 	very real hang.
 
 o	A race between an RCU tasks rude grace period on a single-CPU
 	system and CPU-hotplug addition of the second CPU that can result
 	in a too-short grace period.
 
 o	A race between shrinking RCU tasks down to a single callback list
 	and queuing a new callback to some other CPU, but where that
 	queuing is delayed for more than an RCU grace period.  This can
 	result in that callback being stranded on the non-boot CPU.
 
 torture.2023.01.05a: Torture-test updates and fixes.
 
 torturescript.2023.01.03a: Torture-test scripting updates and fixes.
 
 stall.2023.01.09a: Provide additional RCU CPU stall-warning information
 	in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y, and
 	restore the full five-minute timeout limit for expedited RCU
 	CPU stall warnings.
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Merge tag 'rcu.2023.02.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu

Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes, perhaps most notably:

      - Throttling callback invocation based on the number of callbacks
        that are now ready to invoke instead of on the total number of
        callbacks

      - Several patches that suppress false-positive boot-time
        diagnostics, for example, due to lockdep not yet being
        initialized

      - Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings dump stacks of any tasks
        that are blocking the stalled grace period. (Normal RCU CPU
        stall warnings have done this for many years)

      - Lazy-callback fixes to avoid delays during boot, suspend, and
        resume. (Note that lazy callbacks must be explicitly enabled, so
        this should not (yet) affect production use cases)

 - Make kfree_rcu() and friends take advantage of polled grace periods,
   thus reducing memory footprint by almost two orders of magnitude,
   admittedly on a microbenchmark

   This also begins the transition from kfree_rcu(p) to
   kfree_rcu_mightsleep(p). This transition was motivated by bugs where
   kfree_rcu(p), which can block, was typed instead of the intended
   kfree_rcu(p, rh)

 - SRCU updates, perhaps most notably fixing a bug that causes SRCU to
   fail when booted on a system with a non-zero boot CPU. This
   surprising situation actually happens for kdump kernels on the
   powerpc architecture

   This also adds an srcu_down_read() and srcu_up_read(), which act like
   srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock(), but allow an SRCU read-side
   critical section to be handed off from one task to another

 - Clean up the now-useless SRCU Kconfig option

   There are a few more commits that are not yet acked or pulled into
   maintainer trees, and these will be in a pull request for a later
   merge window

 - RCU-tasks updates, perhaps most notably these fixes:

      - A strange interaction between PID-namespace unshare and the
        RCU-tasks grace period that results in a low-probability but
        very real hang

      - A race between an RCU tasks rude grace period on a single-CPU
        system and CPU-hotplug addition of the second CPU that can
        result in a too-short grace period

      - A race between shrinking RCU tasks down to a single callback
        list and queuing a new callback to some other CPU, but where
        that queuing is delayed for more than an RCU grace period. This
        can result in that callback being stranded on the non-boot CPU

 - Torture-test updates and fixes

 - Torture-test scripting updates and fixes

 - Provide additional RCU CPU stall-warning information in kernels built
   with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y, and restore the full five-minute
   timeout limit for expedited RCU CPU stall warnings

* tag 'rcu.2023.02.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (80 commits)
  rcu/kvfree: Add kvfree_rcu_mightsleep() and kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
  kernel/notifier: Remove CONFIG_SRCU
  init: Remove "select SRCU"
  fs/quota: Remove "select SRCU"
  fs/notify: Remove "select SRCU"
  fs/btrfs: Remove "select SRCU"
  fs: Remove CONFIG_SRCU
  drivers/pci/controller: Remove "select SRCU"
  drivers/net: Remove "select SRCU"
  drivers/md: Remove "select SRCU"
  drivers/hwtracing/stm: Remove "select SRCU"
  drivers/dax: Remove "select SRCU"
  drivers/base: Remove CONFIG_SRCU
  rcu: Disable laziness if lazy-tracking says so
  rcu: Track laziness during boot and suspend
  rcu: Remove redundant call to rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity()
  rcu: Allow up to five minutes expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeouts
  rcu: Align the output of RCU CPU stall warning messages
  rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information
  sched: Add helper nr_context_switches_cpu()
  ...
2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
arch Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2023-02-21 10:03:48 -08:00
block Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2023-02-21 10:03:48 -08:00
certs certs: don't try to update blacklist keys 2023-02-13 10:11:20 +02:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Fix ECDSA use via keyctl uapi 2023-02-13 10:11:20 +02:00
Documentation RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
drivers RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
fs RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
include RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
init RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
io_uring for-6.3/block-2023-02-16 2023-02-20 14:27:21 -08:00
ipc fs: port ->permission() to pass mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00
kernel RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
lib Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2023-02-21 10:03:48 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm Scheduler updates in this cycle are: 2023-02-20 17:41:08 -08:00
net for-6.3/block-2023-02-16 2023-02-20 14:27:21 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.3 2023-02-20 10:40:42 -08:00
samples ftrace: Export ftrace_free_filter() to modules 2023-01-24 11:20:58 -05:00
scripts Changes in this cycle: 2023-02-20 18:32:55 -08:00
security fs.idmapped.v6.3 2023-02-20 11:53:11 -08:00
sound ARM: unused boardfile removal for 6.3 2023-02-20 15:28:57 -08:00
tools RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt VFIO fixes for v6.2-rc6 2023-01-23 11:56:07 -08:00
.clang-format iommufd for 6.2 2022-12-14 09:15:43 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore *.rpm 2022-12-30 17:22:14 +09:00
.mailmap 12 hotfixes, mostly against mm/. Five of these fixes are cc:stable. 2023-02-13 14:09:20 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update SCTP maintainers 2023-02-02 11:35:33 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2023-02-21 10:03:48 -08:00
Makefile Rust changes for v6.3 2023-02-20 10:40:42 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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