Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Continued initialization/Kconfig updates: hide most Kconfig options
   from unsuspecting users.

   There's now a single high level configuration option:

        *
        * RCU Subsystem
        *
        Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW)

   Which if answered in the negative, leaves us with a single
   interactive configuration option:

        Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (RCU_NOCB_CPU) [N/y/?] (NEW)

   All the rest of the RCU options are configured automatically.  Later
   on we'll remove this single leftover configuration option as well.

 - Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes: replace the
   rcu_[access|dereference]_index_check() APIs with READ_ONCE() and
   rcu_lockdep_assert()

 - RCU CPU-hotplug cleanups

 - Updates to Tiny RCU: a race fix and further code shrinkage.

 - RCU torture-testing updates: fixes, speedups, cleanups and
   documentation updates.

 - Miscellaneous fixes

 - Documentation updates

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
  rcutorture: Allow repetition factors in Kconfig-fragment lists
  rcutorture: Display "make oldconfig" errors
  rcutorture: Update TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt
  rcutorture: Make rcutorture scripts force RCU_EXPERT
  rcutorture: Update configuration fragments for rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact
  rcutorture: TASKS_RCU set directly, so don't explicitly set it
  rcutorture: Test SRCU cleanup code path
  rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
  locktorture: Change longdelay_us to longdelay_ms
  rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe
  rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE08 NR_CPUS, speed up CPU hotplug
  rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE04 geometries
  locktorture: fix deadlock in 'rw_lock_irq' type
  rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready
  rcutorture: Test both RCU-sched and RCU-bh for Tiny RCU
  rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlines
  rcu: Conditionally compile RCU's eqs warnings
  rcu: Remove prompt for RCU implementation
  rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
  rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
  ...

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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 867722591be2..5d66777914db 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -252,6 +252,22 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
 #define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) \
 	({ typeof(x) __val = (val); __write_once_size(&(x), &__val, sizeof(__val)); __val; })
 
+/**
+ * READ_ONCE_CTRL - Read a value heading a control dependency
+ * @x: The value to be read, heading the control dependency
+ *
+ * Control dependencies are tricky.  See Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+ * for important information on how to use them.  Note that in many cases,
+ * use of smp_load_acquire() will be much simpler.  Control dependencies
+ * should be avoided except on the hottest of hotpaths.
+ */
+#define READ_ONCE_CTRL(x) \
+({ \
+	typeof(x) __val = READ_ONCE(x); \
+	smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Enforce control dependency. */ \
+	__val; \
+})
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */