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

Pull locking and misc x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of changes in this cycle - in part because locking/core attracted
  a number of related x86 low level work which was easier to handle in a
  single tree:

   - Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model updates (Alan Stern, Paul E.
     McKenney, Andrea Parri)

   - lockdep scalability improvements and micro-optimizations (Waiman
     Long)

   - rwsem improvements (Waiman Long)

   - spinlock micro-optimization (Matthew Wilcox)

   - qspinlocks: Provide a liveness guarantee (more fairness) on x86.
     (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add support for relative references in jump tables on arm64, x86
     and s390 to optimize jump labels (Ard Biesheuvel, Heiko Carstens)

   - Be a lot less permissive on weird (kernel address) uaccess faults
     on x86: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses (Jann
     Horn)

   - macrofy x86 asm statements to un-confuse the GCC inliner. (Nadav
     Amit)

   - ... and a handful of other smaller changes as well"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  locking/lockdep: Make global debug_locks* variables read-mostly
  locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem
  locking/pvqspinlock: Extend node size when pvqspinlock is configured
  locking/qspinlock_stat: Count instances of nested lock slowpaths
  locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guarantee
  x86/asm: 'Simplify' GEN_*_RMWcc() macros
  locking/qspinlock: Rework some comments
  locking/qspinlock: Re-order code
  locking/lockdep: Remove duplicated 'lock_class_ops' percpu array
  x86/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
  futex: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
  locking/lockdep: Make class->ops a percpu counter and move it under CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
  x86/jump-labels: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/cpufeature: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/extable: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/paravirt: Work around GCC inlining bugs when compiling paravirt ops
  x86/bug: Macrofy the BUG table section handling, to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/alternatives: Macrofy lock prefixes to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/refcount: Work around GCC inlining bug
  x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs
  ...

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diff --git a/tools/memory-model/README b/tools/memory-model/README
index ee987ce20aae..acf9077cffaa 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/README
+++ b/tools/memory-model/README
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ The Linux-kernel memory model has the following limitations:
 	particular, the "THE PROGRAM ORDER RELATION: po AND po-loc"
 	and "A WARNING" sections).
 
+	Note that this limitation in turn limits LKMM's ability to
+	accurately model address, control, and data dependencies.
+	For example, if the compiler can deduce the value of some variable
+	carrying a dependency, then the compiler can break that dependency
+	by substituting a constant of that value.
+
 2.	Multiple access sizes for a single variable are not supported,
 	and neither are misaligned or partially overlapping accesses.
 
@@ -190,6 +196,36 @@ The Linux-kernel memory model has the following limitations:
 	However, a substantial amount of support is provided for these
 	operations, as shown in the linux-kernel.def file.
 
+	a.	When rcu_assign_pointer() is passed NULL, the Linux
+		kernel provides no ordering, but LKMM models this
+		case as a store release.
+
+	b.	The "unless" RMW operations are not currently modeled:
+		atomic_long_add_unless(), atomic_add_unless(),
+		atomic_inc_unless_negative(), and
+		atomic_dec_unless_positive().  These can be emulated
+		in litmus tests, for example, by using atomic_cmpxchg().
+
+	c.	The call_rcu() function is not modeled.  It can be
+		emulated in litmus tests by adding another process that
+		invokes synchronize_rcu() and the body of the callback
+		function, with (for example) a release-acquire from
+		the site of the emulated call_rcu() to the beginning
+		of the additional process.
+
+	d.	The rcu_barrier() function is not modeled.  It can be
+		emulated in litmus tests emulating call_rcu() via
+		(for example) a release-acquire from the end of each
+		additional call_rcu() process to the site of the
+		emulated rcu-barrier().
+
+	e.	Sleepable RCU (SRCU) is not modeled.  It can be
+		emulated, but perhaps not simply.
+
+	f.	Reader-writer locking is not modeled.  It can be
+		emulated in litmus tests using atomic read-modify-write
+		operations.
+
 The "herd7" tool has some additional limitations of its own, apart from
 the memory model:
 
@@ -204,3 +240,6 @@ the memory model:
 Some of these limitations may be overcome in the future, but others are
 more likely to be addressed by incorporating the Linux-kernel memory model
 into other tools.
+
+Finally, please note that LKMM is subject to change as hardware, use cases,
+and compilers evolve.