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 changes in this cycle were:
- Adding transitivity uniformly to rcu_node structure ->lock
acquisitions. (This is implemented by the first two commits on top
of v4.4-rc2 due to the pervasive nature of this change.)
- Documentation updates, including RCU requirements.
- Expedited grace-period changes.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Linked-list fixes, courtesy of KTSAN.
- Torture-test updates.
- Late-breaking fix to sysrq-generated crash.
One thing I should note is that these pieces of documentation are
fairly large files:
.../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2897 ++++++++++++++++++++
.../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx | 2741 ++++++++++++++++++
and are written in HTML, not the usual .txt style. I hope they are
fine"
Paul McKenney explains the html docs:
"For whatever it is worth, the reason for...
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