Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

Pull the v5.9 RCU bits from Paul E. McKenney:

 - Documentation updates
 - Miscellaneous fixes
 - kfree_rcu updates
 - RCU tasks updates
 - Read-side scalability tests
 - SRCU updates
 - Torture-test updates

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -4038,6 +4038,14 @@
 			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
 			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
 
+	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
+			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
+			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
+			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
+			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
+			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
+			condition.
+
 	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
 			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
 			first attempt to force quiescent states.
@@ -4258,6 +4266,20 @@
 			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
 			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
 
+	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
+			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
+			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
+			task-exit processing.
+
+	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
+			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
+			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
+			is spawned.
+
+	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
+			The delay, in seconds, between successive
+			read-then-exit testing episodes.
+
 	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
 			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
 			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
@@ -4407,6 +4429,45 @@
 			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
 					to be used for rebooting.
 
+	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
+			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
+			this parameter is to delay the start of the
+			test until boot completes in order to avoid
+			interference.
+
+	refscale.loops= [KNL]
+			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
+			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
+			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
+			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
+			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
+			x86 laptops.
+
+	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
+			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
+			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
+			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
+
+	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
+			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
+			the console log.
+
+	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
+			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
+			measured in microseconds.
+
+	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
+			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
+
+	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
+			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
+			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
+			rcuperf is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
+			it running) when rcuperf is built as a module.
+
+	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
+			Enable additional printk() statements.
+
 	relax_domain_level=
 			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
 			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
@@ -5082,6 +5143,13 @@
 			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
 			until after init has spawned.
 
+	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
+			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
+			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
+			very costly operation when many torture tests
+			are running concurrently, especially on systems
+			with rotating-rust storage.
+
 	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
 
 	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]