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, 45 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/permassert.h b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/permassert.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c34f2ba65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/permassert.h
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 Red Hat
+ */
+
+#ifndef PERMASSERT_H
+#define PERMASSERT_H
+
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+#include "errors.h"
+
+/* Utilities for asserting that certain conditions are met */
+
+#define STRINGIFY(X) #X
+
+/*
+ * A hack to apply the "warn if unused" attribute to an integral expression.
+ *
+ * Since GCC doesn't propagate the warn_unused_result attribute to conditional expressions
+ * incorporating calls to functions with that attribute, this function can be used to wrap such an
+ * expression. With optimization enabled, this function contributes no additional instructions, but
+ * the warn_unused_result attribute still applies to the code calling it.
+ */
+static inline int __must_check vdo_must_use(int value)
+{
+	return value;
+}
+
+/* Assert that an expression is true and return an error if it is not. */
+#define VDO_ASSERT(expr, ...) vdo_must_use(__VDO_ASSERT(expr, __VA_ARGS__))
+
+/* Log a message if the expression is not true. */
+#define VDO_ASSERT_LOG_ONLY(expr, ...) __VDO_ASSERT(expr, __VA_ARGS__)
+
+#define __VDO_ASSERT(expr, ...)				      \
+	(likely(expr) ? VDO_SUCCESS			      \
+		      : vdo_assertion_failed(STRINGIFY(expr), __FILE__, __LINE__, __VA_ARGS__))
+
+/* Log an assertion failure message. */
+int vdo_assertion_failed(const char *expression_string, const char *file_name,
+			 int line_number, const char *format, ...)
+	__printf(4, 5);
+
+#endif /* PERMASSERT_H */