linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/13] percpu-rwsem patches for 4.4

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:45:14 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	bobby.prani@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/13] percpu-rwsem patches for 4.4

Hello!

This series contains performance improvements and locktorture testing
for percpu-rwsem:

1.	Add rtmutex torturing to locktorture, courtesy of Davidlohr Bueso.

2.	Add exports to allow locktorture to be built as a module.

3.	Add torture tests for percpu-rwsem.

4.	Consolidate cond_resched_rcu_qs() into stutter_wait().

5.	Create rcu_sync infrastructure, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

6.	Simplify rcu_sync using new rcu_sync_ops structure, courtesy
	of Oleg Nesterov.

7.	Add CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks for rcu_sync, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

8.	Introduce rcu_sync_dtor(), courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

9.	Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safe, courtesy of Oleg
	Nesterov.

10.	Make percpu-rwsem make use of rcu_sync, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

11.	Fix the comments outdated by rcu_sync, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

12.	Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read(), courtesy
	Peter Zijlstra and of Oleg Nesterov.

13.	Cleanup the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

							Thanx, Paul

------------------------------------------------------------------------

 b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.txt                       |    3 
 b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h                                |    3 
 b/include/linux/rcu_sync.h                                    |  168 ++++--
 b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c                                |  158 +++++
 b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c                               |   90 +--
 b/kernel/rcu/Makefile                                         |    2 
 b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c                                     |    2 
 b/kernel/rcu/sync.c                                           |  269 +++++++++-
 b/kernel/torture.c                                            |    1 
 b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/CFLIST      |    4 
 b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/LOCK05      |    6 
 b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/LOCK05.boot |    1 
 b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/LOCK06      |    6 
 b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/LOCK06.boot |    1 
 14 files changed, 588 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)

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