Hello! This series provides torture-testing updates: 1. rcu-tasks: Use accurate runstart time for RCU Tasks boot-time testing, courtesy of Zqiang. 2. Seed torture_random_state on CPU. 3. rcu-tasks: Improve comments explaining tasks_rcu_exit_srcu purpose, courtesy of Frederic Weisbecker. 4. Provide for initialization failure. 5. rcu-tasks: Remove preemption disablement around srcu_read_[un]lock() calls, courtesy of Frederic Weisbecker. 6. Add tests using SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. 7. Allow non-rtmutex lock types to be boosted, courtesy of "Joel Fernandes (Google)". 8. rcu-tasks: Fix synchronize_rcu_tasks() VS zap_pid_ns_processes(), courtesy of Frederic Weisbecker. 9. Make the rt_boost factor a tunable, courtesy of "Joel Fernandes (Google)". 10. rcu-tasks: Make rude RCU-Tasks work well with CPU hotplug, courtesy of Zqiang. 11. rcu-tasks: Handle queue-shrink/callback-enqueue race condition, courtesy of Zqiang. 12. Drop sparse lock-acquisition annotations. 13. Fix hang during kthread shutdown phase, courtesy of "Joel Fernandes (Google)". Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 99 +++++++++-------- b/kernel/pid_namespace.c | 17 ++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 12 +- b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 16 +- b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 8 - b/kernel/torture.c | 2 kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 12 +- kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 236 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 77 +++++++++---- kernel/torture.c | 2 11 files changed, 393 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)