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Pull RCU and LKMM changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- Documentation updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Dynamic tick (nohz) updates, perhaps most notably changes to
force the tick on when needed due to lengthy in-kernel execution
on CPUs on which RCU is waiting.
- Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_prepace_pointer().
- Torture-test updates.
- Linux-kernel memory consistency model updates.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.