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

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The changes in this cycle are:

   - RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes

   - SRCU updates

   - RCU-sync flavor consolidation

   - Torture-test updates

   - Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the
     addition of plain C-language accesses"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
  tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection
  tools/memory-model: Change definition of rcu-fence
  tools/memory-model: Expand definition of barrier
  tools/memory-model: Do not use "herd" to refer to "herd7"
  tools/memory-model: Fix comment in MP+poonceonces.litmus
  Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
  rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()
  rcu: Force inlining of rcu_read_lock()
  rcu: Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer()
  rcu: Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb()
  rcutorture: Upper case solves the case of the vanishing NULL pointer
  torture: Suppress propagating trace_printk() warning
  rcutorture: Dump trace buffer for callback pipe drain failures
  torture: Add --trust-make to suppress "make clean"
  torture: Make --cpus override idleness calculations
  torture: Run kernel build in source directory
  torture: Add function graph-tracing cheat sheet
  torture: Capture qemu output
  rcutorture: Tweak kvm options
  rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index 981651a8b65d..7e1a8721637a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ synchronize_rcu()
 
 rcu_assign_pointer()
 
-	typeof(p) rcu_assign_pointer(p, typeof(p) v);
+	void rcu_assign_pointer(p, typeof(p) v);
 
 	Yes, rcu_assign_pointer() -is- implemented as a macro, though it
 	would be cool to be able to declare a function in this manner.
@@ -220,9 +220,9 @@ rcu_assign_pointer()
 
 	The updater uses this function to assign a new value to an
 	RCU-protected pointer, in order to safely communicate the change
-	in value from the updater to the reader.  This function returns
-	the new value, and also executes any memory-barrier instructions
-	required for a given CPU architecture.
+	in value from the updater to the reader.  This macro does not
+	evaluate to an rvalue, but it does execute any memory-barrier
+	instructions required for a given CPU architecture.
 
 	Perhaps just as important, it serves to document (1) which
 	pointers are protected by RCU and (2) the point at which a