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/drivers/md/dm-cache-background-tracker.h b/drivers/md/dm-cache-background-tracker.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..47156c14a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-background-tracker.h
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPL.
+ */
+
+#ifndef DM_CACHE_BACKGROUND_WORK_H
+#define DM_CACHE_BACKGROUND_WORK_H
+
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include "dm-cache-policy.h"
+
+/*----------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+/*
+ * The cache policy decides what background work should be performed,
+ * such as promotions, demotions and writebacks. The core cache target
+ * is in charge of performing the work, and does so when it sees fit.
+ *
+ * The background_tracker acts as a go between. Keeping track of future
+ * work that the policy has decided upon, and handing (issuing) it to
+ * the core target when requested.
+ *
+ * There is no locking in this, so calls will probably need to be
+ * protected with a spinlock.
+ */
+
+struct bt_work {
+	struct list_head list;
+	struct rb_node node;
+	struct policy_work work;
+};
+
+extern struct kmem_cache *btracker_work_cache;
+
+struct background_work;
+struct background_tracker;
+
+/*
+ * Create a new tracker, it will not be able to queue more than
+ * 'max_work' entries.
+ */
+struct background_tracker *btracker_create(unsigned int max_work);
+
+/*
+ * Destroy the tracker. No issued, but not complete, work should
+ * exist when this is called. It is fine to have queued but unissued
+ * work.
+ */
+void btracker_destroy(struct background_tracker *b);
+
+unsigned int btracker_nr_demotions_queued(struct background_tracker *b);
+
+/*
+ * Queue some work within the tracker. 'work' should point to the work
+ * to queue, this will be copied (ownership doesn't pass).  If pwork
+ * is not NULL then it will be set to point to the tracker's internal
+ * copy of the work.
+ *
+ * returns -EINVAL iff the work is already queued.  -ENOMEM if the work
+ * couldn't be queued for another reason.
+ */
+int btracker_queue(struct background_tracker *b,
+		   struct policy_work *work,
+		   struct policy_work **pwork);
+
+/*
+ * Hands out the next piece of work to be performed.
+ * Returns -ENODATA if there's no work.
+ */
+int btracker_issue(struct background_tracker *b, struct policy_work **work);
+
+/*
+ * Informs the tracker that the work has been completed and it may forget
+ * about it.
+ */
+void btracker_complete(struct background_tracker *b, struct policy_work *op);
+
+/*
+ * Predicate to see if an origin block is already scheduled for promotion.
+ */
+bool btracker_promotion_already_present(struct background_tracker *b,
+					dm_oblock_t oblock);
+
+/*----------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+#endif