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, 95 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..527352c22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+PHONY := __default
+__default: vmlinux.o
+
+include include/config/auto.conf
+include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
+
+# for objtool
+include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.lib
+
+# Generate a linker script to ensure correct ordering of initcalls for Clang LTO
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+quiet_cmd_gen_initcalls_lds = GEN     $@
+      cmd_gen_initcalls_lds = \
+	$(PYTHON3) $(srctree)/scripts/jobserver-exec \
+	$(PERL) $(real-prereqs) > $@
+
+.tmp_initcalls.lds: $(srctree)/scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl \
+		vmlinux.a $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS) FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,gen_initcalls_lds)
+
+targets := .tmp_initcalls.lds
+
+ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
+initcalls-lds := .tmp_initcalls.lds
+endif
+
+# objtool for vmlinux.o
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# For delay-objtool (IBT or LTO), objtool doesn't run on individual translation
+# units.  Instead it runs on vmlinux.o.
+#
+# For !delay-objtool + CONFIG_NOINSTR_VALIDATION, it runs on both translation
+# units and vmlinux.o, with the latter only used for noinstr/unret validation.
+
+objtool-enabled := $(or $(delay-objtool),$(CONFIG_NOINSTR_VALIDATION))
+
+ifeq ($(delay-objtool),y)
+vmlinux-objtool-args-y					+= $(objtool-args-y)
+else
+vmlinux-objtool-args-$(CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR)		+= --werror
+endif
+
+vmlinux-objtool-args-$(CONFIG_NOINSTR_VALIDATION)	+= --noinstr \
+							   $(if $(or $(CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY),$(CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO)), --unret)
+
+objtool-args = $(vmlinux-objtool-args-y) --link
+
+# Link of vmlinux.o used for section mismatch analysis
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+vmlinux-o-ld-args-$(CONFIG_BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES)	+= -Map=$@.map
+
+quiet_cmd_ld_vmlinux.o = LD      $@
+      cmd_ld_vmlinux.o = \
+	$(LD) ${KBUILD_LDFLAGS} -r -o $@ \
+	$(vmlinux-o-ld-args-y) \
+	$(addprefix -T , $(initcalls-lds)) \
+	--whole-archive vmlinux.a --no-whole-archive \
+	--start-group $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS) --end-group \
+	$(cmd_objtool)
+
+cmd_check_function_names = $(srctree)/scripts/check-function-names.sh $@
+
+define rule_ld_vmlinux.o
+	$(call cmd_and_savecmd,ld_vmlinux.o)
+	$(call cmd,gen_objtooldep)
+	$(call cmd,check_function_names)
+endef
+
+
+vmlinux.o: $(initcalls-lds) vmlinux.a $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS) FORCE
+	$(call if_changed_rule,ld_vmlinux.o)
+
+targets += vmlinux.o
+
+# Add FORCE to the prerequisites of a target to force it to be always rebuilt.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PHONY += FORCE
+FORCE:
+
+# Read all saved command lines and dependencies for the $(targets) we
+# may be building above, using $(if_changed{,_dep}). As an
+# optimization, we don't need to read them if the target does not
+# exist, we will rebuild anyway in that case.
+
+existing-targets := $(wildcard $(sort $(targets)))
+
+-include $(foreach f,$(existing-targets),$(dir $(f)).$(notdir $(f)).cmd)
+
+.PHONY: $(PHONY)