Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
0. 'idle RCU':
Adds RCU APIs that allow non-idle tasks to enter RCU idle mode and
provides x86 code to make use of them, allowing RCU to treat
user-mode execution as an extended quiescent state when the new
RCU_USER_QS kernel configuration parameter is specified. (Work is
in progress to port this to a few other architectures, but is not
part of this series.)
1. A fix for a latent bug that has been in RCU ever since the addition
of CPU stall warnings. This bug results in false-positive stall
warnings, but thus far only on embedded systems with severely
cut-down userspace configurations.
2. Further reductions in latency spikes for huge systems, along with
additional boot-time adaptation to the actual hardware.
This is a large change, as it moves RCU grace-period initialization
and cleanup, along with quiescent-state forcing, from softirq to a
kthread. However, it appears to be in quite good shape (famous
last words).
3. Updates to documentation and rcutorture, the latter category
including keeping statistics on CPU-hotplug latencies and fixing
some initialization-time races.
4. CPU-hotplug fixes and improvements.
5. Idle-loop fixes that were omitted on an earlier submission.
6. Miscellaneous fixes and improvements
In certain RCU configurations new kernel threads will show up (rcu_bh,
rcu_sched), showing RCU processing overhead.
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
rcu: Apply micro-optimization and int/bool fixes to RCU's idle handling
rcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftest
x86: Exit RCU extended QS on notify resume
x86: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption
rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemption
rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on kernel preemption after irq/exception
x86: Exception hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
x86: Unspaghettize do_general_protection()
x86: Syscall hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
rcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switch
rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default
rcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nest
rcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent state
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticks
rcu: New rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq() APIs
rcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIs
ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
score: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
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Linus Torvalds
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