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, 67 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/syn/whitespace.rs b/rust/syn/whitespace.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7319bd7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/syn/whitespace.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT
+
+pub(crate) fn skip(mut s: &str) -> &str {
+    'skip: while !s.is_empty() {
+        let byte = s.as_bytes()[0];
+        if byte == b'/' {
+            if s.starts_with("//")
+                && (!s.starts_with("///") || s.starts_with("////"))
+                && !s.starts_with("//!")
+            {
+                if let Some(i) = s.find('\n') {
+                    s = &s[i + 1..];
+                    continue;
+                } else {
+                    return "";
+                }
+            } else if s.starts_with("/**/") {
+                s = &s[4..];
+                continue;
+            } else if s.starts_with("/*")
+                && (!s.starts_with("/**") || s.starts_with("/***"))
+                && !s.starts_with("/*!")
+            {
+                let mut depth = 0;
+                let bytes = s.as_bytes();
+                let mut i = 0;
+                let upper = bytes.len() - 1;
+                while i < upper {
+                    if bytes[i] == b'/' && bytes[i + 1] == b'*' {
+                        depth += 1;
+                        i += 1; // eat '*'
+                    } else if bytes[i] == b'*' && bytes[i + 1] == b'/' {
+                        depth -= 1;
+                        if depth == 0 {
+                            s = &s[i + 2..];
+                            continue 'skip;
+                        }
+                        i += 1; // eat '/'
+                    }
+                    i += 1;
+                }
+                return s;
+            }
+        }
+        match byte {
+            b' ' | 0x09..=0x0D => {
+                s = &s[1..];
+                continue;
+            }
+            b if b <= 0x7F => {}
+            _ => {
+                let ch = s.chars().next().unwrap();
+                if is_whitespace(ch) {
+                    s = &s[ch.len_utf8()..];
+                    continue;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return s;
+    }
+    s
+}
+
+fn is_whitespace(ch: char) -> bool {
+    // Rust treats left-to-right mark and right-to-left mark as whitespace
+    ch.is_whitespace() || ch == '\u{200e}' || ch == '\u{200f}'
+}