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

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change in this cycle is the conclusion of the big
  'simplify RCU to two primary flavors' consolidation work - i.e.
  there's a single RCU flavor for any kernel variant (PREEMPT and
  !PREEMPT):

    - Consolidate the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched flavors into a
      single flavor similar to RCU-sched in !PREEMPT kernels and into a
      single flavor similar to RCU-preempt (but also waiting on
      preempt-disabled sequences of code) in PREEMPT kernels.

      This branch also includes a refactoring of
      rcu_{nmi,irq}_{enter,exit}() from Byungchul Park.

    - Now that there is only one RCU flavor in any given running kernel,
      the many "rsp" pointers are no longer required, and this cleanup
      series removes them.

    - This branch carries out additional cleanups made possible by the
      RCU flavor consolidation, including inlining now-trivial
      functions, updating comments and definitions, and removing
      now-unneeded rcutorture scenarios.

    - Now that there is only one flavor of RCU in any running kernel,
      there is also only on rcu_data structure per CPU. This means that
      the rcu_dynticks structure can be merged into the rcu_data
      structure, a task taken on by this branch. This branch also
      contains a -rt-related fix from Mike Galbraith.

  There were also other updates:

    - Documentation updates, including some good-eye catches from Joel
      Fernandes.

    - SRCU updates, most notably changes enabling call_srcu() to be
      invoked very early in the boot sequence.

    - Torture-test updates, including some preliminary work towards
      making rcutorture better able to find problems that result in
      insufficient grace-period forward progress.

    - Initial changes to RCU to better promote forward progress of grace
      periods, including fixing a bug found by Marius Hillenbrand and
      David Woodhouse, with the fix suggested by Peter Zijlstra"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
  srcu: Make early-boot call_srcu() reuse workqueue lists
  rcutorture: Test early boot call_srcu()
  srcu: Make call_srcu() available during very early boot
  rcu: Convert rcu_state.ofl_lock to raw_spinlock_t
  rcu: Remove obsolete ->dynticks_fqs and ->cond_resched_completed
  rcu: Switch ->dynticks to rcu_data structure, remove rcu_dynticks
  rcu: Switch dyntick nesting counters to rcu_data structure
  rcu: Switch urgent quiescent-state requests to rcu_data structure
  rcu: Switch lazy counts to rcu_data structure
  rcu: Switch last accelerate/advance to rcu_data structure
  rcu: Switch ->tick_nohz_enabled_snap to rcu_data structure
  rcu: Merge rcu_dynticks structure into rcu_data structure
  rcu: Remove unused rcu_dynticks_snap() from Tiny RCU
  rcu: Convert "1UL << x" to "BIT(x)"
  rcu: Avoid resched_cpu() when rescheduling the current CPU
  rcu: More aggressively enlist scheduler aid for nohz_full CPUs
  rcu: Compute jiffies_till_sched_qs from other kernel parameters
  rcu: Provide functions for determining if call_rcu() has been invoked
  rcu: Eliminate ->rcu_qs_ctr from the rcu_dynticks structure
  rcu: Motivate Tiny RCU forward progress
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 92eb1f42240d..e9054fd1d0d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3540,14 +3540,14 @@
 
 			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
 			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
-			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
-			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
-			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
-			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
-			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
-			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
-			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
-			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
+			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
+			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
+			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
+			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
+			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
+			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
+			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
+			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
 
 	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
 			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
@@ -3601,7 +3601,14 @@
 			Set required age in jiffies for a
 			given grace period before RCU starts
 			soliciting quiescent-state help from
-			rcu_note_context_switch().
+			rcu_note_context_switch().  If not specified, the
+			kernel will calculate a value based on the most
+			recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
+			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
+			This calculated value may be viewed in
+			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to
+			set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
+			cheerfully overwritten.
 
 	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
 			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
@@ -3869,12 +3876,6 @@
 	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
 			Run the RCU early boot self tests
 
-	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
-			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
-
-	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
-			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
-
 	rdinit=		[KNL]
 			Format: <full_path>
 			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,