Merge tag 'core-rcu-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - kfree_rcu updates

 - RCU tasks updates

 - Read-side scalability tests

 - SRCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes

* tag 'core-rcu-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (109 commits)
  torture: Remove obsolete "cd $KVM"
  torture: Avoid duplicate specification of qemu command
  torture: Dump ftrace at shutdown only if requested
  torture: Add kvm-tranform.sh script for qemu-cmd files
  torture: Add more tracing crib notes to kvm.sh
  torture: Improve diagnostic for KCSAN-incapable compilers
  torture: Correctly summarize build-only runs
  torture: Pass --kmake-arg to all make invocations
  rcutorture: Check for unwatched readers
  torture: Abstract out console-log error detection
  torture: Add a stop-run capability
  torture: Create qemu-cmd in --buildonly runs
  rcu/rcutorture: Replace 0 with false
  torture: Add --allcpus argument to the kvm.sh script
  torture: Remove whitespace from identify_qemu_vcpus output
  rcutorture: NULL rcu_torture_current earlier in cleanup code
  rcutorture: Handle non-statistic bang-string error messages
  torture: Set configfile variable to current scenario
  rcutorture: Add races with task-exit processing
  locktorture: Use true and false to assign to bool variables
  ...

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcutiny.h b/include/linux/rcutiny.h
index 8512caeb7682..5cc9637cac16 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcutiny.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcutiny.h
@@ -34,9 +34,25 @@ static inline void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void)
 	synchronize_rcu();
 }
 
-static inline void kfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func)
+/*
+ * Add one more declaration of kvfree() here. It is
+ * not so straight forward to just include <linux/mm.h>
+ * where it is defined due to getting many compile
+ * errors caused by that include.
+ */
+extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
+
+static inline void kvfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func)
 {
-	call_rcu(head, func);
+	if (head) {
+		call_rcu(head, func);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	// kvfree_rcu(one_arg) call.
+	might_sleep();
+	synchronize_rcu();
+	kvfree((void *) func);
 }
 
 void rcu_qs(void);