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    Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 92400b8c
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
    
     - Lots of tidying up changes all across the map for Linux's formal
       memory/locking-model tooling, by Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, Andrea
       Parri, Paul E. McKenney and SeongJae Park.
    
       Notable changes beyond an overall update in the tooling itself is the
       tidying up of spin_is_locked() semantics, which spills over into the
       kernel proper as well.
    
     - qspinlock improvements: the locking algorithm now guarantees forward
       progress whereas the previous implementation in mainline could starve
       threads indefinitely in cmpxchg() loops. Also other related cleanups
       to the qspinlock code (Will Deacon)
    
     - misc smaller improvements, cleanups and fixes all across the locking
       subsystem
    
    * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
      locking/rwsem: Simplify the is-owner-spinnable checks
      tools/memory-model: Add reference for 'Simplifying ARM concurrency'
      tools/memory-model: Update ASPLOS information
      MAINTAINERS, tools/memory-model: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri
      tools/memory-model: Fix coding style in 'lock.cat'
      tools/memory-model: Remove out-of-date comments and code from lock.cat
      tools/memory-model: Improve mixed-access checking in lock.cat
      tools/memory-model: Improve comments in lock.cat
      tools/memory-model: Remove duplicated code from lock.cat
      tools/memory-model: Flag "cumulativity" and "propagation" tests
      tools/memory-model: Add model support for spin_is_locked()
      tools/memory-model: Add scripts to test memory model
      tools/memory-model: Fix coding style in 'linux-kernel.def'
      tools/memory-model: Model 'smp_store_mb()'
      tools/memory-order: Update the cheat-sheet to show that smp_mb__after_atomic() orders later RMW operations
      tools/memory-order: Improve key for SELF and SV
      tools/memory-model: Fix cheat sheet typo
      tools/memory-model: Update required version of herdtools7
      tools/memory-model: Redefine rb in terms of rcu-fence
      tools/memory-model: Rename link and rcu-path to rcu-link and rb
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