[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/9] Miscellaneous fixes for v5.3

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 11:03:27 EST


Hello!

This series provides miscellaneous fixes:

1. Dump specified number of blocked tasks rather than rely on
serendipity, courtesy of Neeraj Upadhyay.

2. Correctly unlock root node in rcu_check_gp_start_stall(),
courtesy of Neeraj Upadhyay.

3. Make kfree_rcu() ignore NULL pointers.

4. Set a maximum limit for back-to-back callback invocation.

5. Remove ".vnet" from paulmck email addresses.

6. Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb().

7. Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer().

8. Force inlining of rcu_read_lock(), courtesy of Waiman Long.

9. Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer(), courtesy of
Andrea Parri.

Thanx, Paul

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Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 8 +++----
Documentation/core-api/circular-buffers.rst | 2 -
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 -
Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt | 2 -
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 21 ++++++++++---------
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 7 +++---
kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h | 3 --
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 -
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 4 ++-
tools/include/linux/rcu.h | 4 +--
tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 -
11 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)