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This pull request contains the following branches:
doc.2023.12.13a: Documentation and comment updates.
torture.2023.11.23a: RCU torture, locktorture updates that include
cleanups; nolibc init build support for mips, ppc and rv64;
testing of mid stall duration scenario and fixing fqs task
creation conditions.
fixes.2023.12.13a: Misc fixes, most notably restricting usage of
RCU CPU stall notifiers, to confine their usage primarily
to debug kernels.
rcu-tasks.2023.12.12b: RCU tasks minor fixes.
srcu.2023.12.13a: lockdep annotation fix for NMI-safe accesses,
callback advancing/acceleration cleanup and documentation
improvements.
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Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.8' of https://github.com/neeraju/linux
Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay:
- Documentation and comment updates
- RCU torture, locktorture updates that include cleanups; nolibc init
build support for mips, ppc and rv64; testing of mid stall duration
scenario and fixing fqs task creation conditions
- Misc fixes, most notably restricting usage of RCU CPU stall
notifiers, to confine their usage primarily to debug kernels
- RCU tasks minor fixes
- lockdep annotation fix for NMI-safe accesses, callback
advancing/acceleration cleanup and documentation improvements
* tag 'rcu.release.v6.8' of https://github.com/neeraju/linux:
rcu: Force quiescent states only for ongoing grace period
doc: Clarify historical disclaimers in memory-barriers.txt
doc: Mention address and data dependencies in rcu_dereference.rst
doc: Clarify RCU Tasks reader/updater checklist
rculist.h: docs: Fix wrong function summary
Documentation: RCU: Remove repeated word in comments
srcu: Use try-lock lockdep annotation for NMI-safe access.
srcu: Explain why callbacks invocations can't run concurrently
srcu: No need to advance/accelerate if no callback enqueued
srcu: Remove superfluous callbacks advancing from srcu_gp_start()
rcu: Remove unused macros from rcupdate.h
rcu: Restrict access to RCU CPU stall notifiers
rcu-tasks: Mark RCU Tasks accesses to current->rcu_tasks_idle_cpu
rcutorture: Add fqs_holdoff check before fqs_task is created
rcutorture: Add mid-sized stall to TREE07
rcutorture: add nolibc init support for mips, ppc and rv64
locktorture: Increase Hamming distance between call_rcu_chain and rcu_call_chains
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.