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Linus Torvalds b99cdfdf0b Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
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
  ...
2018-08-13 10:49:41 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:47:26 -07:00
block Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions" 2018-08-04 18:19:55 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-07-19 07:32:44 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:49:41 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:47:26 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:25:08 -07:00
include Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:49:41 -07:00
init init: rename and re-order boot_cpu_state_init() 2018-08-12 12:19:42 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c add ->pagesize function to shm_vm_ops 2018-08-02 16:03:40 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:49:41 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:21:28 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm/memory.c: check return value of ioremap_prot 2018-08-10 20:19:58 -07:00
net dsa: slave: eee: Allow ports to use phylink 2018-08-08 19:19:03 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: xdp_redirect_cpu adjustment to reproduce teardown race easier 2018-08-09 21:50:44 +02:00
scripts lib/ubsan: remove null-pointer checks 2018-08-10 20:19:58 -07:00
security selinux/stable-4.18 PR 20180629 2018-06-30 11:15:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Yet another Clevo P950 quirk entry 2018-07-18 12:17:46 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:49:41 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt Miscellaneous bugfixes, plus a small patchlet related to Spectre v2. 2018-07-18 11:08:44 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:49:41 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18 2018-08-12 13:41:04 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.