[GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.38

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Dec 23 2010 - 00:37:51 EST


Hello, Ingo,

This pull request covers RCU changes for 2.6.38. These include RCU
priority boosting for TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU, some cleanups from
Lai Jiangshan, fixes to synchronize_sched_expedited() including some
from Tejun Heo, some nohz fixes from Frederic Weisbecker, some changes
to reduce lock contention for internal-to-RCU locks, and a fix from
Mariusz Kozlowski to fix unbalanced parentheses.

These changes are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu.git rcu/next

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Frederic Weisbecker (2):
rcu: Stop chasing QS if another CPU did it for us
rcu: Keep gpnum and completed fields synchronized

Lai Jiangshan (2):
rcu,cleanup: move synchronize_sched_expedited() out of sched.c
rcu,cleanup: simplify the code when cpu is dying

Mariusz Kozlowski (1):
rculist: fix borked __list_for_each_rcu() macro

Paul E. McKenney (14):
rcu: add priority-inversion testing to rcutorture
rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread
rcu: priority boosting for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: add tracing for TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: document TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing.
rcu: Distinguish between boosting and boosted
rcu: get rid of obsolete "classic" names in TREE_RCU tracing
rcu: update documentation/comments for Lai's adoption patch
rcu: fix race condition in synchronize_sched_expedited()
rcu: Make synchronize_srcu_expedited() fast if running readers
rcu: fine-tune grace-period begin/end checks
rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
rcu: reduce __call_rcu()-induced contention on rcu_node structures
rcu: remove unused __list_for_each_rcu() macro

Tejun Heo (1):
rcu: increase synchronize_sched_expedited() batching

Documentation/RCU/trace.txt | 144 +++++++++++++--
include/linux/init_task.h | 9 +-
include/linux/rculist.h | 5 -
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 4 +-
include/linux/rcutiny.h | 13 +-
include/linux/rcutree.h | 2 +
include/linux/sched.h | 11 +-
init/Kconfig | 55 ++++++-
kernel/rcutiny.c | 105 +++++++----
kernel/rcutiny_plugin.h | 433 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
kernel/rcutorture.c | 270 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/rcutree.c | 156 ++++++++--------
kernel/rcutree.h | 61 +++----
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 135 +++++++++++++-
kernel/rcutree_trace.c | 12 +-
kernel/sched.c | 69 -------
kernel/srcu.c | 8 +-
17 files changed, 1207 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-)
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