Merge tag 'core-rcu-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - kfree_rcu updates

 - RCU tasks updates

 - Read-side scalability tests

 - SRCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes

* tag 'core-rcu-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (109 commits)
  torture: Remove obsolete "cd $KVM"
  torture: Avoid duplicate specification of qemu command
  torture: Dump ftrace at shutdown only if requested
  torture: Add kvm-tranform.sh script for qemu-cmd files
  torture: Add more tracing crib notes to kvm.sh
  torture: Improve diagnostic for KCSAN-incapable compilers
  torture: Correctly summarize build-only runs
  torture: Pass --kmake-arg to all make invocations
  rcutorture: Check for unwatched readers
  torture: Abstract out console-log error detection
  torture: Add a stop-run capability
  torture: Create qemu-cmd in --buildonly runs
  rcu/rcutorture: Replace 0 with false
  torture: Add --allcpus argument to the kvm.sh script
  torture: Remove whitespace from identify_qemu_vcpus output
  rcutorture: NULL rcu_torture_current earlier in cleanup code
  rcutorture: Handle non-statistic bang-string error messages
  torture: Set configfile variable to current scenario
  rcutorture: Add races with task-exit processing
  locktorture: Use true and false to assign to bool variables
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index fb95fad81c79..d35fd3ced0db 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4038,6 +4038,14 @@
 			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
 			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
 
+	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
+			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
+			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
+			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
+			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
+			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
+			condition.
+
 	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
 			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
 			first attempt to force quiescent states.
@@ -4258,6 +4266,20 @@
 			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
 			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
 
+	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
+			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
+			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
+			task-exit processing.
+
+	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
+			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
+			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
+			is spawned.
+
+	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
+			The delay, in seconds, between successive
+			read-then-exit testing episodes.
+
 	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
 			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
 			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
@@ -4407,6 +4429,45 @@
 			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
 					to be used for rebooting.
 
+	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
+			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
+			this parameter is to delay the start of the
+			test until boot completes in order to avoid
+			interference.
+
+	refscale.loops= [KNL]
+			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
+			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
+			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
+			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
+			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
+			x86 laptops.
+
+	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
+			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
+			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
+			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
+
+	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
+			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
+			the console log.
+
+	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
+			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
+			measured in microseconds.
+
+	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
+			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
+
+	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
+			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
+			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
+			rcuperf is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
+			it running) when rcuperf is built as a module.
+
+	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
+			Enable additional printk() statements.
+
 	relax_domain_level=
 			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
 			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
@@ -5082,6 +5143,13 @@
 			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
 			until after init has spawned.
 
+	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
+			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
+			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
+			very costly operation when many torture tests
+			are running concurrently, especially on systems
+			with rotating-rust storage.
+
 	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
 
 	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]