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2026-05-03Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-familyManuel Ebner3-6/+6
2026-03-30rcu-tasks: Document that RCU Tasks Trace grace periods now imply RCU grace pe...Paul E. McKenney1-0/+7
2026-02-09Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds1-7/+0
2026-01-23Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplateJani Nikula1-7/+0
2026-01-01rcu: Update Requirements.rst for RCU Tasks TracePaul E. McKenney1-6/+6
2025-11-05doc: Update for SRCU-fast definitions and initializationPaul E. McKenney3-21/+27
2025-10-04Merge tag 'rcu.2025.09.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/...Linus Torvalds6-74/+167
2025-08-22docs: rcu: Replace multiple dead OLS links in RTFP.txtNikil Paul S1-3/+3
2025-08-22doc: Fix typo in RCU's torture.rst documentationPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
2025-08-22Documentation: RCU: Retitle toctree indexBagas Sanjaya1-2/+2
2025-08-22Documentation: RCU: Reduce toctree depthBagas Sanjaya1-1/+1
2025-08-22Documentation: RCU: Wrap kvm-remote.sh rerun snippet in literal code blockBagas Sanjaya1-1/+1
2025-08-20rcu: docs: Requirements.rst: Abide by conventions of kernel documentationAkira Yokosawa1-28/+24
2025-08-20doc: Add RCU guards to checklist.rstPaul E. McKenney1-8/+19
2025-08-20doc: Update whatisRCU.rst for recent RCU API additionsPaul E. McKenney1-30/+116
2025-08-18Documentation: Fix RCU typosBjorn Helgaas2-2/+2
2025-07-22rcu: Document concurrent quiescent state reporting for offline CPUsJoel Fernandes1-0/+87
2025-07-22rcu: Document separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seqJoel Fernandes1-0/+33
2025-07-22rcu: Document GP init vs hotplug-scan ordering requirementsJoel Fernandes1-0/+41
2025-05-16doc/RCU/listRCU: refine example code for eliminating stale dataWei Yang1-4/+6
2025-05-16doc: Update LWN RCU API links in whatisRCU.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+3
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/...Linus Torvalds1-0/+10
2025-03-16refcount: provide ops for cases when object's memory can be reusedSuren Baghdasaryan1-0/+10
2025-02-04rcu: Remove references to old grace-period-wait primitivesPaul E. McKenney1-4/+1
2025-02-04doc: Add broken-timing possibility to stallwarn.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+7
2024-11-12doc: rcu: update printed dynticks counter bitsBaruch Siach1-1/+1
2024-09-09Merge branches 'context_tracking.15.08.24a', 'csd.lock.15.08.24a', 'nocb.09.0...Neeraj Upadhyay3-36/+30
2024-08-15rcu: Update stray documentation references to rcu_dynticks_eqs_{enter, exit}()Valentin Schneider4-8/+8
2024-08-15rcu: Rename rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() into rcu_watching_snap_recheck()Valentin Schneider4-4/+4
2024-08-15rcu: Rename dyntick_save_progress_counter() into rcu_watching_snap_save()Valentin Schneider4-4/+4
2024-08-15rcu: Rename struct rcu_data .dynticks_snap into .watching_snapValentin Schneider1-2/+2
2024-08-15rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_in_eqs_since() into rcu_watching_snap_stopped_since()Valentin Schneider1-1/+1
2024-08-14doc: Remove RCU Tasks Rude asynchronous APIsPaul E. McKenney3-36/+30
2024-08-11context_tracking, rcu: Rename struct context_tracking .dynticks_nmi_nesting i...Valentin Schneider1-7/+7
2024-08-11context_tracking, rcu: Rename struct context_tracking .dynticks_nesting into ...Valentin Schneider1-5/+5
2024-07-29context_tracking, rcu: Rename ct_dynticks_cpu_acquire() into ct_rcu_watching_...Valentin Schneider1-1/+1
2024-07-04Merge branches 'doc.2024.06.06a', 'fixes.2024.07.04a', 'mb.2024.06.28a', 'noc...Paul E. McKenney1-3/+3
2024-06-28rcu: Remove superfluous full memory barrier upon first EQS snapshotFrederic Weisbecker1-3/+3
2024-06-06doc: Clarify rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() orderingPaul E. McKenney1-10/+18
2024-06-06doc: Update Tasks RCU and Tasks Rude RCU description in Requirements.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+16
2024-04-09doc: Remove references to arrayRCU.rstZenghui Yu1-3/+3
2024-03-12Merge tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
2024-02-14doc: Update checklist.rst discussion of callback executionPaul E. McKenney1-10/+11
2024-02-14doc: Clarify use of slab constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCUPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
2024-02-14doc: Add CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to checklist.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+6
2024-02-14doc: Make checklist.rst note that spinlocks are implied RCU readersPaul E. McKenney1-2/+3
2024-02-14doc: Make whatisRCU.rst note that spinlocks are RCU readersPaul E. McKenney1-2/+13
2024-02-14doc: Spinlocks are implied RCU readersPaul E. McKenney1-1/+4
2024-01-30doc:it_IT: first translation for locking/Federico Vaga1-1/+1
2023-12-14doc: Mention address and data dependencies in rcu_dereference.rstPaul E. McKenney1-6/+19
2023-12-14doc: Clarify RCU Tasks reader/updater checklistPaul E. McKenney1-9/+16
2023-12-14Documentation: RCU: Remove repeated word in commentsCharles Han1-1/+1
2023-10-23Merge branches 'rcu/torture', 'rcu/fixes', 'rcu/docs', 'rcu/refscale', 'rcu/t...Frederic Weisbecker8-29/+20
2023-10-04rcu: Standardize explicit CPU-hotplug callsFrederic Weisbecker5-9/+9
2023-10-04rcu: Remove references to rcu_migrate_callbacks() from diagramsFrederic Weisbecker2-18/+0
2023-09-11rcu: Describe listRCU read-side guaranteesMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-0/+9
2023-09-11Documentation: RCU: Fix section numbers after adding Section 7 in whatisRCU.rstWei Zhang1-2/+2
2023-07-14Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Fix text about atomic_set_release()SeongJae Park1-2/+4
2023-07-14Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Fix hlist_[nulls]_head field names of 'obj'SeongJae Park1-4/+4
2023-07-14Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Specify type of the object in examplesSeongJae Park1-1/+13
2023-07-14Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Assign 'obj' before use from the examplesSeongJae Park1-2/+2
2023-07-14Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Fix trivial coding styleSeongJae Park1-3/+3
2023-07-14docs/RCU: Add the missing rcu_read_unlock()Alan Huang1-1/+3
2023-07-14documentation/rcu: Fix typoTycho Andersen1-1/+1
2023-05-11rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE()Peter Zijlstra2-36/+1
2023-04-05doc: Update whatisRCU.rstUladzislau Rezki (Sony)1-3/+3
2023-04-05Documentation: RCU: Correct spellingRandy Dunlap6-14/+14
2023-04-05Documentation/RCU: s/not/note/ in checklist.rstQiuxu Zhuo1-1/+1
2023-01-05doc: Fix htmldocs build warnings of stallwarn.rstZhen Lei1-26/+30
2023-01-05docs/RCU/rcubarrier: Right-adjust line numbers in code snippetsAkira Yokosawa1-84/+84
2023-01-05docs/RCU/rcubarrier: Adjust 'Answer' parts of QQs as definition-listsAkira Yokosawa1-3/+6
2023-01-05doc: Document CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y stall informationZhen Lei1-0/+88
2023-01-05doc: Update whatisRCU.rstPaul E. McKenney1-66/+123
2023-01-05doc: Update rcu.rst URL to RCU publicationsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+2
2023-01-05doc: Update UP.rstPaul E. McKenney1-2/+11
2023-01-05doc: Update torture.rstPaul E. McKenney1-4/+85
2023-01-05doc: Update stallwarn.rstPaul E. McKenney1-18/+25
2023-01-05doc: Update rcu.rstPaul E. McKenney1-1/+2
2023-01-05doc: Update and wordsmith rculist_nulls.rstPaul E. McKenney1-55/+54
2023-01-03doc: Update rcu_dereference.rstPaul E. McKenney1-5/+16
2023-01-03doc: Update rcubarrier.rstPaul E. McKenney1-84/+108
2023-01-03doc: Update NMI-RCU.rstPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
2023-01-03doc: Further updates to RCU's lockdep.rstPaul E. McKenney1-7/+6
2022-12-12Merge tag 'timers-core-2022-12-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kern...Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
2022-11-24timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() APISteven Rostedt (Google)1-1/+1
2022-11-24Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()Thomas Gleixner1-1/+1
2022-10-20doc: Update RCU's lockdep.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+4
2022-10-20doc: Update listRCU.rstPaul E. McKenney1-70/+102
2022-10-18doc: Update checklist.txtPaul E. McKenney1-99/+141
2022-10-18doc: Remove arrayRCU.rstPaul E. McKenney2-166/+0
2022-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2-2/+2
2022-09-27Delete duplicate words from kernel docsAkhil Raj2-2/+2
2022-08-31doc/rcu: Update LWN article URLs and add 2019 articleShao-Tse Hung1-7/+9
2022-08-31doc: SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU uses cannot rely on spinlocksPaul E. McKenney1-7/+12
2022-08-31doc: Update rcu_access_pointer() advice in rcu_dereference.rstPaul E. McKenney1-4/+10
2022-08-31doc: Fix list: rcu_access_pointer() is not lockdep-checkedPaul E. McKenney1-3/+9
2022-08-31doc: Use rcu_barrier() to rate-limit RCU callbacksPaul E. McKenney1-1/+2
2022-08-31doc: Call out queue_rcu_work() for blocking RCU callbacksPaul E. McKenney1-0/+3
2022-08-31doc: Emphasize the need for explicit RCU read-side markersPaul E. McKenney1-2/+7
2022-07-05rcu/context-tracking: Remove unused and/or unecessary middle functionsFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
2022-07-05context_tracking: Take NMI eqs entrypoints over RCUFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
2022-07-05context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCUFrederic Weisbecker2-7/+7
2022-07-05context_tracking: Take idle eqs entrypoints over RCUFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
2022-05-11Merge branch 'exp.2022.05.11a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney1-0/+20
2022-05-11rcu: Introduce CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUTUladzislau Rezki1-0/+20
2022-04-20docs: Update RCU cross-references as suggested in doc-guideAkira Yokosawa8-29/+25
2022-04-20docs: Add documentation for rude and trace RCU flavorsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+32
2021-12-09Merge branches 'doc.2021.11.30c', 'exp.2021.12.07a', 'fastnohz.2021.11.30c', ...Paul E. McKenney1-11/+0
2021-11-30rcu: Remove the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Kconfig optionPaul E. McKenney1-11/+0
2021-11-30doc: RCU: Avoid 'Symbol' font-family in SVG figuresAkira Yokosawa11-67/+67
2021-11-30doc: Add refcount analogy to What is RCUNeilBrown1-8/+82
2021-09-13rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macrosZhouyi Zhou1-37/+32
2021-09-13doc: Add another stall-warning root cause in stallwarn.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+10
2021-07-20doc: Update stallwarn.rst with recent changesPaul E. McKenney1-6/+15
2021-07-20rcu/doc: Add a quick quiz to explain further why we need smp_mb__after_unlock...Frederic Weisbecker1-0/+29
2021-07-20docs: Fix a typo in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rstHaocheng Xie1-1/+1
2021-07-20Documentation/RCU: Fix nested inline markupAkira Yokosawa1-3/+5
2021-07-20Documentation/RCU: Fix emphasis markersAkira Yokosawa3-19/+19
2021-07-04Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kern...Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
2021-06-24doc: Give XDP as example of non-obvious RCU reader/updater pairingToke Høiland-Jørgensen1-2/+9
2021-06-24doc: Clarify and expand RCU updaters and corresponding readersPaul E. McKenney1-20/+26
2021-05-10doc: Fix diagram references in memory-ordering documentFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
2021-05-10doc: Fix statement of RCU's memory-ordering requirementsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
2021-03-15docs: Correctly spell Stephen Hemminger's namePaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
2021-02-22Merge tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-47/+47
2021-02-21Merge tag 'core-rcu-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/...Linus Torvalds6-377/+412
2021-02-12Merge branch 'for-mingo-rcu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...Ingo Molnar6-377/+412
2021-01-29drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE supportViresh Kumar1-2/+1
2021-01-22Merge branches 'doc.2021.01.06a', 'fixes.2021.01.04b', 'kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a...Paul E. McKenney2-1/+40
2021-01-11Documentation: Replace lkml.org links with loreJoe Perches1-47/+47
2021-01-06rcu: Check and report missed fqs timer wakeup on RCU stallNeeraj Upadhyay1-1/+22
2021-01-06doc: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTIONSebastian Andrzej Siewior6-24/+24
2021-01-06doc: Update RCU's requirements page about the PREEMPT_RT wikiSebastian Andrzej Siewior1-1/+1
2021-01-04srcu: Document polling interfaces for Tree SRCU grace periodsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+18
2021-01-04doc: Update RCU requirements RCU_INIT_POINTER() descriptionPaul E. McKenney1-2/+1
2021-01-04docs: Fix typos and drop/fix dead links in RCU documentationPaul Gortmaker2-17/+14
2021-01-04doc: Remove obsolete RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side API membersPaul E. McKenney1-14/+14
2021-01-04docs: Remove redundant "``" from Requirements.rstPaul E. McKenney1-332/+332
2020-12-31docs: Fix reST markup when linking to sectionsNícolas F. R. A. Prado2-14/+14
2020-11-06docs/rcu: Update the call_rcu() APIHui Su1-2/+1
2020-11-06docs: RCU: Requirements.rst: Fix a list blockMauro Carvalho Chehab1-0/+1
2020-11-06docs: Update RCU's hotplug requirements with a bit about designJoel Fernandes (Google)1-9/+38
2020-11-02doc: Present the role of READ_ONCE()Paul E. McKenney2-0/+13
2020-10-09Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pau...Ingo Molnar3-4/+4
2020-08-24docs: Fix function name trailing double-()sKees Cook1-1/+1
2020-08-24doc: Drop doubled words from RCU requirements documentationRandy Dunlap1-2/+2
2020-08-24doc: Drop doubled words from RCU Data-Structures.rstRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
2020-08-24docs: Fix typo in synchronize_rcu() function nameTobias Klauser1-1/+1
2020-08-03Merge tag 'core-rcu-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/...Linus Torvalds10-395/+491
2020-07-21Documentation/barriers: Remove references to [smp_]read_barrier_depends()Will Deacon1-1/+1
2020-06-29doc: Tasks RCU must protect instructions before trampolinePaul E. McKenney1-1/+6
2020-06-29doc: Timer problems can cause RCU CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+7
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Don't duplicate chapter names in rculist_nulls.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab1-0/+6
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert stallwarn.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2-21/+35
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert rcuref.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2-93/+101
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert torture.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2-52/+64
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert rculist_nulls.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab3-172/+195
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert lockdep.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2-4/+9
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert lockdep-splat.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2-47/+53
2020-06-29docs: RCU: Convert checklist.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab2-5/+15
2020-04-27rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() safe for rq/pi locksPaul E. McKenney1-44/+15
2020-02-27doc: Add rcutorture scripting to torture.txtPaul E. McKenney1-7/+140
2020-02-27doc/RCU/rcu: Use https instead of http if possibleSeongJae Park1-1/+1
2020-02-27doc/RCU/rcu: Use absolute paths for non-rst filesSeongJae Park1-2/+2
2020-02-27doc/RCU/rcu: Use ':ref:' for links to other docsSeongJae Park1-6/+6
2020-02-27doc/RCU/listRCU: Update example function nameSeongJae Park1-3/+3
2020-02-27doc/RCU/listRCU: Fix typos in a example code snippetsSeongJae Park1-2/+2
2020-02-27doc/RCU/Design: Remove remaining HTML tags in ReST filesSeongJae Park1-4/+4
2020-02-27doc: Add some more RCU list patterns in the kernelJoel Fernandes (Google)1-64/+211
2020-01-24Merge branches 'doc.2019.12.10a', 'exp.2019.12.09a', 'fixes.2020.01.24a', 'kf...Paul E. McKenney1-8/+3
2020-01-24rcu: Remove kfree_rcu() special casing and lazy-callback handlingJoel Fernandes (Google)1-8/+3
2019-12-10doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference"Paul E. McKenney1-1/+1
2019-12-10doc: Updated full list of RCU API in whatisRCU.rstMadhuparna Bhowmik1-2/+7
2019-12-10doc: Convert to rcubarrier.txt to ReSTAmol Grover2-97/+126
2019-12-10doc: Convert to rcu_dereference.txt to rcu_dereference.rstAmol Grover2-34/+42
2019-12-10doc: Convert whatisRCU.txt to .rstPhong Tran2-106/+177
2019-12-10doc: Converted NMI-RCU.txt to NMI-RCU.rst.Madhuparna Bhowmik2-25/+29
2019-12-10doc: Convert arrayRCU.txt to arrayRCU.rstMadhuparna Bhowmik2-11/+24
2019-10-29Documentation: Rename rcu_node_context_switch() to rcu_note_context_switch()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior3-3/+3
2019-10-29doc: Update list_for_each_entry_rcu() documentationJoel Fernandes (Google)2-5/+23
2019-10-29Restore docs "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()"Joel Fernandes (Google)1-0/+54
2019-10-29Restore docs "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"Joel Fernandes (Google)1-1/+1
2019-10-29docs: rcu: Increase toctree to 3Joel Fernandes (Google)1-1/+1
2019-10-29docs: rcu: Correct links referring to titlesJoel Fernandes (Google)2-60/+47
2019-10-29docs: rcu: convert some articles from html to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab11-6104/+4978
2019-10-29Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"Joel Fernandes (Google)1-1/+1
2019-10-29Revert docs from "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlo...Joel Fernandes (Google)1-71/+0
2019-08-13Merge branches 'consolidate.2019.08.01b', 'fixes.2019.08.12a', 'lists.2019.08...Paul E. McKenney2-1/+78
2019-08-01treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()Joel Fernandes (Google)1-1/+1
2019-08-01doc: Add rcutree.kthread_prio pointer to stallwarn.txtPaul E. McKenney1-0/+6
2019-08-01rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()Paul E. McKenney1-0/+71
2019-07-17docs: fix broken doc references due to renamesMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
2019-07-09Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds5-125/+163
2019-06-28doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irqJiunn Chang1-6/+7
2019-06-27Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooksJiunn Chang1-0/+19
2019-06-27Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rstJiunn Chang3-0/+0
2019-06-27Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reSTJiunn Chang1-14/+23
2019-06-27Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reSTJiunn Chang1-16/+22
2019-06-27Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reSTJiunn Chang1-58/+61
2019-06-19Merge branches 'consolidate.2019.05.28a', 'doc.2019.05.28a', 'fixes.2019.06.1...Paul E. McKenney3-6/+25
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