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authorLinus Torvalds2015-11-03 15:40:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2015-11-03 15:40:38 -0800
commit281422869942c19f05a08d4017c633d08d390938 (patch)
tree78e1fb9155e3e82697f96ce04e7b40e8f7c5147c /Documentation/locking
parentf5a8160c1e055c0fd8d16a5b3ac97c638365b0db (diff)
parentb33e18f61bd18227a456016a77b1a968f5bc1d65 (diff)
Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Improvements to expedited grace periods (Paul E McKenney) - Performance improvements to and locktorture tests for percpu-rwsem (Oleg Nesterov, Paul E McKenney) - Torture-test changes (Paul E McKenney, Davidlohr Bueso) - Documentation updates (Paul E McKenney) - Miscellaneous fixes (Paul E McKenney, Boqun Feng, Oleg Nesterov, Patrick Marlier)" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits) fs/writeback, rcu: Don't use list_entry_rcu() for pointer offsetting in bdi_split_work_to_wbs() rcu: Better hotplug handling for synchronize_sched_expedited() rcu: Enable stall warnings for synchronize_rcu_expedited() rcu: Add tasks to expedited stall-warning messages rcu: Add online/offline info to expedited stall warning message rcu: Consolidate expedited CPU selection rcu: Prepare for consolidating expedited CPU selection cpu: Remove try_get_online_cpus() rcu: Stop excluding CPU hotplug in synchronize_sched_expedited() rcu: Stop silencing lockdep false positive for expedited grace periods rcu: Switch synchronize_sched_expedited() to IPI locktorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified torture: Forgive non-plural arguments rcutorture: Fix unused-function warning for torturing_tasks() rcutorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified rcu_sync: Cleanup the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks locking/percpu-rwsem: Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read() locking/percpu-rwsem: Fix the comments outdated by rcu_sync locking/percpu-rwsem: Make use of the rcu_sync infrastructure locking/percpu-rwsem: Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safe ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.txt b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.txt
index 619f2bb136a5..a2ef3a929bf1 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ torture_type Type of lock to torture. By default, only spinlocks will
o "mutex_lock": mutex_lock() and mutex_unlock() pairs.
+ o "rtmutex_lock": rtmutex_lock() and rtmutex_unlock()
+ pairs. Kernel must have CONFIG_RT_MUTEX=y.
+
o "rwsem_lock": read/write down() and up() semaphore pairs.
torture_runnable Start locktorture at boot time in the case where the