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

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The changes in this cycle were:

   - Adding transitivity uniformly to rcu_node structure ->lock
     acquisitions.  (This is implemented by the first two commits on top
     of v4.4-rc2 due to the pervasive nature of this change.)

   - Documentation updates, including RCU requirements.

   - Expedited grace-period changes.

   - Miscellaneous fixes.

   - Linked-list fixes, courtesy of KTSAN.

   - Torture-test updates.

   - Late-breaking fix to sysrq-generated crash.

  One thing I should note is that these pieces of documentation are
  fairly large files:

    .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html      | 2897 ++++++++++++++++++++
    .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx     | 2741 ++++++++++++++++++

  and are written in HTML, not the usual .txt style.  I hope they are
  fine"

Paul McKenney explains the html docs:
 "For whatever it is worth, the reason for this unconventional choice
  was that attempts to do the diagrams in ASCII art failed miserably.

  And attempts to do ASCII art for the upcoming documentation of the
  data structures failed even more miserably"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  sysrq: Fix warning in sysrq generated crash.
  list: Add lockless list traversal primitives
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_init() be bool rather than int
  rcu: Move wakeup out from under rnp->lock
  rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace
  rcu: Don't redundantly disable irqs in rcu_irq_{enter,exit}()
  rcu: Make cpu_needs_another_gp() be bool
  rcu: Eliminate unused rcu_init_one() argument
  rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters
  torture: Place console.log files correctly from the get-go
  torture: Abbreviate console error dump
  rcutorture: Print symbolic name for ->gp_state
  rcutorture: Print symbolic name for rcu_torture_writer_state
  rcutorture: Remove CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS from rcutorture selftest doc
  rcutorture: Default grace period to three minutes, allow override
  rcutorture:  Dump stack when GP kthread stalls
  rcutorture: Flag nonexistent RCU GP kthread
  rcutorture: Add batch number to script printout
  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Fix ACCESS_ONCE thinko
  documentation: Update RCU requirements based on expedited changes
  ...

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
index 5381a72..e513940 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ static void sysrq_handle_crash(int key)
 {
 	char *killer = NULL;
 
+	/* we need to release the RCU read lock here,
+	 * otherwise we get an annoying
+	 * 'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context'
+	 * complaint from the kernel before the panic.
+	 */
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	panic_on_oops = 1;	/* force panic */
 	wmb();
 	*killer = 1;