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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-09 01:45:14 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-09 01:45:14 +0300
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Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The changes in this cycle are: - RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - SRCU updates - RCU-sync flavor consolidation - Torture-test updates - Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the addition of plain C-language accesses" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits) tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection tools/memory-model: Change definition of rcu-fence tools/memory-model: Expand definition of barrier tools/memory-model: Do not use "herd" to refer to "herd7" tools/memory-model: Fix comment in MP+poonceonces.litmus Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer() rcu: Force inlining of rcu_read_lock() rcu: Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer() rcu: Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb() rcutorture: Upper case solves the case of the vanishing NULL pointer torture: Suppress propagating trace_printk() warning rcutorture: Dump trace buffer for callback pipe drain failures torture: Add --trust-make to suppress "make clean" torture: Make --cpus override idleness calculations torture: Run kernel build in source directory torture: Add function graph-tracing cheat sheet torture: Capture qemu output rcutorture: Tweak kvm options rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation ...
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the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
the rcu_node combining tree.
+ rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
+ If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
+ per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
+ value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
+ Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
+
rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might