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Message-Id: <20170118025316.GB2042@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:53:16 -0800
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: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/20] Miscellaneous fixes for 4.11

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 01:12:55AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
Hello!

This series provides miscellaneous fixes:

1.	Make RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT be the default in order to speed up
	boot, courtesy of Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.

2.	Make RCU suspicious-access lockdep splats use pr_err().

3.	Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled, courtesy
	of Mathieu Desnoyers.

4.	Only dump stalled-tasks stacks if there was a real stall, courtesy
	of Byungchul Park.

5.	Remove unneeded rcu_process_callbacks() declarations.

6.	Remove unused but set "mask" variable, courtesy of Tobias Klauser.

7.	Add long-term CPU kicking.

8.	Remove short-term CPU kicking.

9.	Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings.

10.	Re-enable TASKS_RCU for User Mode Linux.

11.	Don't wake rcuc/X kthreads on NOCB CPUs.

12.	Add comment headers to expedited-grace-period counter functions.

13.	Make rcu_cpu_starting() use its "cpu" argument.

14.	Enable RCU tracepoints by default to aid in debugging, courtesy
	of Matt Fleming.

15.	Fix comment in rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads(), which no longer
	spawns kthreads.

16.	Clarify comments about when llist locking is needed, courtesy
	of Joel Fernandes.

17.	Eliminate unused expedited_normal counter.

18.	Add lockdep checks to synchronous expedited primitives.

Changes since v1:

o	Reverse the order of patches 7 and 8.

o	Defer the patch adding tests for trivial grace periods.

o	Defer the patch making cond_resched() provide RCU quiescent
	states.

o	Apply other feedback from Josh Triplett, Peter Zijlstra, and
	Michal Hocko.

							Thanx, Paul

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

 Documentation/RCU/trace.txt |    5 +----
 include/linux/llist.h       |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 init/Kconfig                |   14 --------------
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c    |   12 ++++++------
 kernel/membarrier.c         |    4 ++++
 kernel/rcu/tiny.c           |    2 --
 kernel/rcu/tree.c           |   35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 kernel/rcu/tree.h           |    1 -
 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h       |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h    |    5 +++--
 kernel/rcu/tree_trace.c     |    3 +--
 kernel/rcu/update.c         |    6 ++----
 lib/Kconfig.debug           |    1 +
 13 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)