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

Pull RCU update from Ingo Molnar:
 "The major features of this tree are:

     1. A first version of no-callbacks CPUs.  This version prohibits
        offlining CPU 0, but only when enabled via CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y.
        Relaxing this constraint is in progress, but not yet ready
        for prime time.  These commits were posted to LKML at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/724.

     2. Changes to SRCU that allows statically initialized srcu_struct
        structures.  These commits were posted to LKML at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/296.

     3. Restructuring of RCU's debugfs output.  These commits were posted
        to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/341.

     4. Additional CPU-hotplug/RCU improvements, posted to LKML at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/327.
        Note that the commit eliminating __stop_machine() was judged to
        be too-high of risk, so is deferred to 3.9.

     5. Changes to RCU's idle interface, most notably a new module
        parameter that redirects normal grace-period operations to
        their expedited equivalents.  These were posted to LKML at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/739.

     6. Additional diagnostics for RCU's CPU stall warning facility,
        posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/315.
        The most notable change reduces the
        default RCU CPU stall-warning time from 60 seconds to 21 seconds,
        so that it once again happens sooner than the softlockup timeout.

     7. Documentation updates, which were posted to LKML at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/280.
        A couple of late-breaking changes were posted at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/634 and
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/547.

     8. Miscellaneous fixes, which were posted to LKML at
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/309.

     9. Finally, a fix for an lockdep-RCU splat was posted to LKML
        at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/7/486."

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem
  sched: Mark RCU reader in sched_show_task()
  rcu: Separate accounting of callbacks from callback-free CPUs
  rcu: Add callback-free CPUs
  rcu: Add documentation for the new rcuexp debugfs trace file
  rcu: Update documentation for TREE_RCU debugfs tracing
  rcu: Reduce default RCU CPU stall warning timeout
  rcu: Fix TINY_RCU rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle check
  rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives
  rcu: Add new rcutorture module parameters to start/end test messages
  rcu: Remove list_for_each_continue_rcu()
  rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem
  rcu: Add tracing for synchronize_sched_expedited()
  rcu: Remove old debugfs interfaces and also RCU flavor name
  rcu: split 'rcuhier' to each flavor
  rcu: split 'rcugp' to each flavor
  rcu: split 'rcuboost' to each flavor
  rcu: split 'rcubarrier' to each flavor
  rcu: Fix tracing formatting
  rcu: Remove the interface "rcudata.csv"
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9776f068306..9d2e5cb3a95 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2394,6 +2394,27 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
 			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
 
+	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL,BOOT]
+			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
+			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
+			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
+			be offloaded to "rcuoN" kthreads created for
+			that purpose.  This reduces OS jitter on the
+			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
+			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
+			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
+
+	rcu_nocbs_poll	[KNL,BOOT]
+			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
+			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
+			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
+			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
+			This improves the real-time response for the
+			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
+			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
+			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
+			periodically wake up to do the polling.
+
 	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL,BOOT]
 			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
 			in one batch.