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, 52 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ife.h b/include/net/ife.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e2538d85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/ife.h
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __NET_IFE_H
+#define __NET_IFE_H
+
+#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
+#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/ife.h>
+
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NET_IFE)
+
+void *ife_encode(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 metalen);
+void *ife_decode(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *metalen);
+
+void *ife_tlv_meta_decode(void *skbdata, const void *ifehdr_end, u16 *attrtype,
+			  u16 *dlen, u16 *totlen);
+int ife_tlv_meta_encode(void *skbdata, u16 attrtype, u16 dlen,
+			const void *dval);
+
+void *ife_tlv_meta_next(void *skbdata);
+
+#else
+
+static inline void *ife_encode(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 metalen)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void *ife_decode(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *metalen)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void *ife_tlv_meta_decode(void *skbdata, u16 *attrtype, u16 *dlen,
+					u16 *totlen)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline int ife_tlv_meta_encode(void *skbdata, u16 attrtype, u16 dlen,
+			const void *dval)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void *ife_tlv_meta_next(void *skbdata)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __NET_IFE_H */