Merge branches 'expcb.2026.07.24a', 'misc.2026.07.30a', 'rcu-tasks.2026.07.30a', 'srcu.2026.08.11a' and 'torture.2026.08.14a' into HEADgrafted

Changes:

Make expedited grace periods expedite normal RCU callbacks

Miscellaneous fixes:
 * Improve diagnostic output with character task states.
 * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design.
 * Move from kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj().
 * Documentation updates.
 * Improve handling of RCU deferred quiescent states.
 * Clean up unused function arguments and structure fields.
 * Reduce show_rcu_gp_kthreads() stack space.

Tasks RCU updates:
 * Clean up after SRCU re-implementation of Tasks Trace RCU.
 * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design.
 * Add ->lazy_timer status to diagnostic output.
 * Remove an unnecessary memory barrier.
 * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN.
 * Documentation updates.
 * Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() from macro to static inline
   function.

SRCU updates:
 * Add Rust helpers for SRCU.
 * Avoid losing queued work at cleanup_srcu_struct() time.

Torture-test updates:
 * Preparation work for immediate RCU priority deboosting.
 * Test RCU readers from real interrupt handlers (as opposed to softirq).
 * Simplify code through use of cpumask_next_wrap().
 * Improve diagnostic output with character task states.
 * Add rcutorture.nwriters parameter to allow lightweight stall testing,
   and rcutorture.stall_only to make doing so easier.
 * Test an RCU Tasks Trace grace period implying an RCU grace period.
 * Make RCU Tasks Trace torturing track reader batches.
 * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN.
 * Plug a shuffle_tmp_mask memory leak on kthread spawn failure.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds b/arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8cdff54c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-alpha")
+ENTRY(__start)
+printk = srm_printk;
+SECTIONS
+{
+  . = 0x20000000;
+  .text : { *(.text) }
+  _etext = .;
+  PROVIDE (etext = .);
+  .rodata : { *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) }
+  .data : { *(.data) CONSTRUCTORS }
+  .got : { *(.got) }
+  .sdata : { *(.sdata) }
+  _edata = .;
+  PROVIDE (edata = .);
+  .sbss : { *(.sbss) *(.scommon) }
+  .bss : { *(.bss) *(COMMON) }
+  _end = . ;
+  PROVIDE (end = .);
+
+  .mdebug 0 : { *(.mdebug) }
+  .note 0 : { *(.note) }
+  .comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
+}