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

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

Pull RCU updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large update to RCU:

  Preparatory work for consolidating the RCU flavors:

   - Introduce grace-period sequence numbers to the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt,
     and RCU-sched flavors, replacing the old ->gpnum and ->completed
     pair of fields.

     This change allows lockless code to obtain the complete
     grace-period state with a single READ_ONCE(), which is needed to
     maintain tolerable lock contention during the upcoming
     consolidation of the three RCU flavors.

     Note that grace-period sequence numbers are already used by
     rcu_barrier(), expedited RCU grace periods, and SRCU, and are thus
     already heavily used and well-tested. Joel Fernandes contributed a
     number of excellent fixes and improvements.

   - Clean up some grace-period-reporting loose ends, including
     improving the handling of quiescent states from offline CPUs and
     fixing some false-positive WARN_ON_ONCE() invocations.

     (Strictly speaking, the WARN_ON_ONCE() invocations were quite
     correct, but their invariants were (harmlessly) violated by the
     earlier sloppy handling of quiescent states from offline CPUs.)

     In addition, improve grace-period forward-progress guarantees so as
     to allow removal of fail-safe checks that required otherwise
     needless lock acquisitions. Finally, add more diagnostics to help
     debug the upcoming consolidation of the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt, and
     RCU-sched flavors.

  The rest:

   - SRCU updates

   - Updates to rcutorture and associated scripting.

   - The usual pile of miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (118 commits)
  rcutorture: Fix rcu_barrier successes counter
  rcutorture: Add support to detect if boost kthread prio is too low
  rcutorture: Use monotonic timestamp for stall detection
  rcutorture: Make boost test more robust
  rcutorture: Disable RT throttling for boost tests
  rcutorture: Emphasize testing of single reader protection type
  rcutorture: Handle extended read-side critical sections
  rcutorture: Make rcu_torture_timer() use rcu_torture_one_read()
  rcutorture: Use per-CPU random state for rcu_torture_timer()
  rcutorture: Use atomic increment for n_rcu_torture_timers
  rcutorture: Extract common code from rcu_torture_reader()
  rcuperf: Remove unused torturing_tasks() function
  rcu: Remove rcutorture test version and sequence number
  rcutorture: Change units of onoff_interval to jiffies
  rcu: Assign higher prio to RCU threads if rcutorture is built-in
  rculist: Improve documentation for list_for_each_entry_from_rcu()
  srcu: Add grace-period number to rcutorture statistics printout
  rcu: Print stall-warning NMI dyntick state in hexadecimal
  MAINTAINERS: Update RCU, SRCU, and TORTURE-TEST entries
  rcu: Make rcu_seq_diff() more exact
  ...