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.

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diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/main.c b/arch/alpha/boot/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..22a1cb026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/alpha/boot/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * arch/alpha/boot/main.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Linus Torvalds
+ *
+ * This file is the bootloader for the Linux/AXP kernel
+ */
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+
+#include <asm/console.h>
+#include <asm/hwrpb.h>
+
+#include <linux/stdarg.h>
+
+#include "ksize.h"
+
+extern unsigned long switch_to_osf_pal(unsigned long nr,
+	struct pcb_struct * pcb_va, struct pcb_struct * pcb_pa,
+	unsigned long *vptb);
+struct hwrpb_struct *hwrpb = INIT_HWRPB;
+static struct pcb_struct pcb_va[1];
+
+/*
+ * Find a physical address of a virtual object..
+ *
+ * This is easy using the virtual page table address.
+ */
+
+static inline void *
+find_pa(unsigned long *vptb, void *ptr)
+{
+	unsigned long address = (unsigned long) ptr;
+	unsigned long result;
+
+	result = vptb[address >> 13];
+	result >>= 32;
+	result <<= 13;
+	result |= address & 0x1fff;
+	return (void *) result;
+}	
+
+/*
+ * This function moves into OSF/1 pal-code, and has a temporary
+ * PCB for that. The kernel proper should replace this PCB with
+ * the real one as soon as possible.
+ *
+ * The page table muckery in here depends on the fact that the boot
+ * code has the L1 page table identity-map itself in the second PTE
+ * in the L1 page table. Thus the L1-page is virtually addressable
+ * itself (through three levels) at virtual address 0x200802000.
+ */
+
+#define VPTB	((unsigned long *) 0x200000000)
+#define L1	((unsigned long *) 0x200802000)
+
+void
+pal_init(void)
+{
+	unsigned long i, rev;
+	struct percpu_struct * percpu;
+	struct pcb_struct * pcb_pa;
+
+	/* Create the dummy PCB.  */
+	pcb_va->ksp = 0;
+	pcb_va->usp = 0;
+	pcb_va->ptbr = L1[1] >> 32;
+	pcb_va->asn = 0;
+	pcb_va->pcc = 0;
+	pcb_va->unique = 0;
+	pcb_va->flags = 1;
+	pcb_va->res1 = 0;
+	pcb_va->res2 = 0;
+	pcb_pa = find_pa(VPTB, pcb_va);
+
+	/*
+	 * a0 = 2 (OSF)
+	 * a1 = return address, but we give the asm the vaddr of the PCB
+	 * a2 = physical addr of PCB
+	 * a3 = new virtual page table pointer
+	 * a4 = KSP (but the asm sets it)
+	 */
+	srm_printk("Switching to OSF PAL-code .. ");
+
+	i = switch_to_osf_pal(2, pcb_va, pcb_pa, VPTB);
+	if (i) {
+		srm_printk("failed, code %ld\n", i);
+		__halt();
+	}
+
+	percpu = (struct percpu_struct *)
+		(INIT_HWRPB->processor_offset + (unsigned long) INIT_HWRPB);
+	rev = percpu->pal_revision = percpu->palcode_avail[2];
+
+	srm_printk("Ok (rev %lx)\n", rev);
+
+	tbia(); /* do it directly in case we are SMP */
+}
+
+static inline long openboot(void)
+{
+	char bootdev[256];
+	long result;
+
+	result = callback_getenv(ENV_BOOTED_DEV, bootdev, 255);
+	if (result < 0)
+		return result;
+	return callback_open(bootdev, result & 255);
+}
+
+static inline long close(long dev)
+{
+	return callback_close(dev);
+}
+
+static inline long load(long dev, unsigned long addr, unsigned long count)
+{
+	char bootfile[256];
+	extern char _end;
+	long result, boot_size = &_end - (char *) BOOT_ADDR;
+
+	result = callback_getenv(ENV_BOOTED_FILE, bootfile, 255);
+	if (result < 0)
+		return result;
+	result &= 255;
+	bootfile[result] = '\0';
+	if (result)
+		srm_printk("Boot file specification (%s) not implemented\n",
+		       bootfile);
+	return callback_read(dev, count, (void *)addr, boot_size/512 + 1);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Start the kernel.
+ */
+static void runkernel(void)
+{
+	__asm__ __volatile__(
+		"bis %1,%1,$30\n\t"
+		"bis %0,%0,$26\n\t"
+		"ret ($26)"
+		: /* no outputs: it doesn't even return */
+		: "r" (START_ADDR),
+		  "r" (PAGE_SIZE + INIT_STACK));
+}
+
+void start_kernel(void)
+{
+	long i;
+	long dev;
+	int nbytes;
+	char envval[256];
+
+	srm_printk("Linux/AXP bootloader for Linux " UTS_RELEASE "\n");
+	if (INIT_HWRPB->pagesize != 8192) {
+		srm_printk("Expected 8kB pages, got %ldkB\n", INIT_HWRPB->pagesize >> 10);
+		return;
+	}
+	pal_init();
+	dev = openboot();
+	if (dev < 0) {
+		srm_printk("Unable to open boot device: %016lx\n", dev);
+		return;
+	}
+	dev &= 0xffffffff;
+	srm_printk("Loading vmlinux ...");
+	i = load(dev, START_ADDR, KERNEL_SIZE);
+	close(dev);
+	if (i != KERNEL_SIZE) {
+		srm_printk("Failed (%lx)\n", i);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	nbytes = callback_getenv(ENV_BOOTED_OSFLAGS, envval, sizeof(envval));
+	if (nbytes < 0) {
+		nbytes = 0;
+	}
+	envval[nbytes] = '\0';
+	strcpy((char*)ZERO_PGE, envval);
+
+	srm_printk(" Ok\nNow booting the kernel\n");
+	runkernel();
+	for (i = 0 ; i < 0x100000000 ; i++)
+		/* nothing */;
+	__halt();
+}