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 RCU changes in this cycle are:

   - Dynticks updates, consolidating open-coded counter accesses into a
     well-defined API

   - SRCU updates: Simplify algorithm, add formal verification

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes

   - Torture-test updates

  Most of the diffstat comes from the relatively large documentation
  update"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  srcu: Reduce probability of SRCU ->unlock_count[] counter overflow
  rcutorture: Add CBMC-based formal verification for SRCU
  srcu: Force full grace-period ordering
  srcu: Implement more-efficient reader counts
  rcu: Adjust FQS offline checks for exact online-CPU detection
  rcu: Check cond_resched_rcu_qs() state less often to reduce GP overhead
  rcu: Abstract extended quiescent state determination
  rcu: Abstract dynticks extended quiescent state enter/exit operations
  rcu: Add lockdep checks to synchronous expedited primitives
  rcu: Eliminate unused expedited_normal counter
  llist: Clarify comments about when locking is needed
  rcu: Fix comment in rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads()
  rcu: Enable RCU tracepoints by default to aid in debugging
  rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() use its "cpu" argument
  rcu: Add comment headers to expedited-grace-period counter functions
  rcu: Don't wake rcuc/X kthreads on NOCB CPUs
  rcu: Re-enable TASKS_RCU for User Mode Linux
  rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings
  rcu: Remove short-term CPU kicking
  rcu: Add long-term CPU kicking
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index d8fc55aa9d44..10d86d938a23 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3269,6 +3269,13 @@
 			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
 			prove do nothing more than free memory.
 
+	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
+			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
+			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
+			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
+			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
+			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
+
 	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
 			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
 			grace-period primitives.