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

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This cycles's RCU changes include:

   - a couple of straggling RCU flavor consolidation updates

   - SRCU updates

   - RCU CPU stall-warning updates

   - torture-test updates

   - an LKMM commit adding support for synchronize_srcu_expedited()

   - documentation updates

   - miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  net/ipv4/netfilter: Update comment from call_rcu_bh() to call_rcu()
  tools/memory-model: Add support for synchronize_srcu_expedited()
  doc/kprobes: Update obsolete RCU update functions
  torture: Suppress false-positive CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE complaint
  locktorture: NULL cxt.lwsa and cxt.lrsa to allow bad-arg detection
  rcuperf: Fix cleanup path for invalid perf_type strings
  rcutorture: Fix cleanup path for invalid torture_type strings
  rcutorture: Fix expected forward progress duration in OOM notifier
  rcutorture: Remove ->ext_irq_conflict field
  rcutorture: Make rcutorture_extend_mask() comment match the code
  tools/.../rcutorture: Convert to SPDX license identifier
  torture: Don't try to offline the last CPU
  rcu: Fix nohz status in stall warning
  rcu: Move forward-progress checkers into tree_stall.h
  rcu: Move irq-disabled stall-warning checking to tree_stall.h
  rcu: Organize functions in tree_stall.h
  rcu: Move FAST_NO_HZ stall-warning code to tree_stall.h
  rcu: Inline RCU stall-warning info helper functions
  rcu: Move rcu_print_task_exp_stall() to tree_exp.h
  rcu: Inline RCU task stall-warning helper functions
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt
index 913396ac5824..dca3fb0554db 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt
+++ b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,23 @@ Barriers:
   smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
 
 
+TYPES (signed vs unsigned)
+-----
+
+While atomic_t, atomic_long_t and atomic64_t use int, long and s64
+respectively (for hysterical raisins), the kernel uses -fno-strict-overflow
+(which implies -fwrapv) and defines signed overflow to behave like
+2s-complement.
+
+Therefore, an explicitly unsigned variant of the atomic ops is strictly
+unnecessary and we can simply cast, there is no UB.
+
+There was a bug in UBSAN prior to GCC-8 that would generate UB warnings for
+signed types.
+
+With this we also conform to the C/C++ _Atomic behaviour and things like
+P1236R1.
+
 
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