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, 108 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/thread-utils.c b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/thread-utils.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..826afc952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/thread-utils.c
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 Red Hat
+ */
+
+#include "thread-utils.h"
+
+#include <asm/current.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#include "errors.h"
+#include "logger.h"
+#include "memory-alloc.h"
+
+static struct hlist_head thread_list;
+static struct mutex thread_mutex;
+
+struct thread {
+	void (*thread_function)(void *thread_data);
+	void *thread_data;
+	struct hlist_node thread_links;
+	struct task_struct *thread_task;
+	struct completion thread_done;
+};
+
+void vdo_initialize_threads_mutex(void)
+{
+	mutex_init(&thread_mutex);
+}
+
+static int thread_starter(void *arg)
+{
+	struct registered_thread allocating_thread;
+	struct thread *thread = arg;
+
+	thread->thread_task = current;
+	mutex_lock(&thread_mutex);
+	hlist_add_head(&thread->thread_links, &thread_list);
+	mutex_unlock(&thread_mutex);
+	vdo_register_allocating_thread(&allocating_thread, NULL);
+	thread->thread_function(thread->thread_data);
+	vdo_unregister_allocating_thread();
+	complete(&thread->thread_done);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int vdo_create_thread(void (*thread_function)(void *), void *thread_data,
+		      const char *name, struct thread **new_thread)
+{
+	char *name_colon = strchr(name, ':');
+	char *my_name_colon = strchr(current->comm, ':');
+	struct task_struct *task;
+	struct thread *thread;
+	int result;
+
+	result = vdo_allocate(1, __func__, &thread);
+	if (result != VDO_SUCCESS) {
+		vdo_log_warning("Error allocating memory for %s", name);
+		return result;
+	}
+
+	thread->thread_function = thread_function;
+	thread->thread_data = thread_data;
+	init_completion(&thread->thread_done);
+	/*
+	 * Start the thread, with an appropriate thread name.
+	 *
+	 * If the name supplied contains a colon character, use that name. This causes uds module
+	 * threads to have names like "uds:callbackW" and the main test runner thread to be named
+	 * "zub:runtest".
+	 *
+	 * Otherwise if the current thread has a name containing a colon character, prefix the name
+	 * supplied with the name of the current thread up to (and including) the colon character.
+	 * Thus when the "kvdo0:dedupeQ" thread opens an index session, all the threads associated
+	 * with that index will have names like "kvdo0:foo".
+	 *
+	 * Otherwise just use the name supplied. This should be a rare occurrence.
+	 */
+	if ((name_colon == NULL) && (my_name_colon != NULL)) {
+		task = kthread_run(thread_starter, thread, "%.*s:%s",
+				   (int) (my_name_colon - current->comm), current->comm,
+				   name);
+	} else {
+		task = kthread_run(thread_starter, thread, "%s", name);
+	}
+
+	if (IS_ERR(task)) {
+		vdo_free(thread);
+		return PTR_ERR(task);
+	}
+
+	*new_thread = thread;
+	return VDO_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+void vdo_join_threads(struct thread *thread)
+{
+	while (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&thread->thread_done))
+		fsleep(1000);
+
+	mutex_lock(&thread_mutex);
+	hlist_del(&thread->thread_links);
+	mutex_unlock(&thread_mutex);
+	vdo_free(thread);
+}