Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - Torture-test changes, including refactoring of rcutorture and
     introduction of a vestigial locktorture.

   - Real-time latency fixes.

   - Documentation updates.

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits)
  rcu: Provide grace-period piggybacking API
  rcu: Ensure kernel/rcu/rcu.h can be sourced/used stand-alone
  rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c
  notifier: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw()
  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Clarify release/acquire ordering
  rcutorture: Save kvm.sh output to log
  rcutorture: Add a lock_busted to test the test
  rcutorture: Place kvm-test-1-run.sh output into res directory
  rcutorture: Rename TREE_RCU-Kconfig.txt
  locktorture: Add kvm-recheck.sh plug-in for locktorture
  rcutorture: Gracefully handle NULL cleanup hooks
  locktorture: Add vestigial locktorture configuration
  rcutorture: Introduce "rcu" directory level underneath configs
  rcutorture: Rename kvm-test-1-rcu.sh
  rcutorture: Remove RCU dependencies from ver_functions.sh API
  rcutorture: Create CFcommon file for common Kconfig parameters
  rcutorture: Create config files for scripted test-the-test testing
  rcutorture: Add an rcu_busted to test the test
  locktorture: Add a lock-torture kernel module
  rcutorture: Abstract kvm-recheck.sh
  ...
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Linus Torvalds
2014-03-31 11:05:24 -07:00
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@@ -980,6 +980,21 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
mutexes and rwsems.
config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
tristate "torture tests for locking"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select TORTURE_TEST
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
to be built into the kernel.
Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
endmenu # lock debugging
config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
@@ -1141,9 +1156,14 @@ config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
Say N if you are unsure.
config TORTURE_TEST
tristate
default n
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
tristate "torture tests for RCU"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select TORTURE_TEST
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests