55 files changed, 1346 insertions, 448 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX b/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX
index 9bb62f7b89c3..71b6f500ddb9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX
@@ -6,16 +6,22 @@ checklist.txt
         - Review Checklist for RCU Patches
 listRCU.txt
         - Using RCU to Protect Read-Mostly Linked Lists
+lockdep.txt
+        - RCU and lockdep checking
 NMI-RCU.txt
         - Using RCU to Protect Dynamic NMI Handlers
+rcubarrier.txt
+        - RCU and Unloadable Modules
+rculist_nulls.txt
+        - RCU list primitives for use with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
 rcuref.txt
         - Reference-count design for elements of lists/arrays protected by RCU
 rcu.txt
         - RCU Concepts
-rcubarrier.txt
-        - Unloading modules that use RCU callbacks
 RTFP.txt
         - List of RCU papers (bibliography) going back to 1980.
+stallwarn.txt
+        - RCU CPU stall warnings (CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR)
 torture.txt
         - RCU Torture Test Operation (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST)
 trace.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
index d2b85237c76e..5aea459e3dd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ to be referencing the data structure.  However, this mechanism was not
 optimized for modern computer systems, which is not surprising given
 that these overheads were not so expensive in the mid-80s.  Nonetheless,
 passive serialization appears to be the first deferred-destruction
-mechanism to be used in production.  Furthermore, the relevant patent has
-lapsed, so this approach may be used in non-GPL software, if desired.
-(In contrast, use of RCU is permitted only in software licensed under
-GPL.  Sorry!!!)
+mechanism to be used in production.  Furthermore, the relevant patent
+has lapsed, so this approach may be used in non-GPL software, if desired.
+(In contrast, implementation of RCU is permitted only in software licensed
+under either GPL or LGPL.  Sorry!!!)
 
 In 1990, Pugh [Pugh90] noted that explicitly tracking which threads
 were reading a given data structure permitted deferred free to operate
@@ -150,6 +150,18 @@ preemptible RCU [PaulEMcKenney2007PreemptibleRCU], and the three-part
 LWN "What is RCU?" series [PaulEMcKenney2007WhatIsRCUFundamentally,
 PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUUsage, and PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUAPI].
 
+2008 saw a journal paper on real-time RCU [DinakarGuniguntala2008IBMSysJ],
+a history of how Linux changed RCU more than RCU changed Linux
+[PaulEMcKenney2008RCUOSR], and a design overview of hierarchical RCU
+[PaulEMcKenney2008HierarchicalRCU].
+
+2009 introduced user-level RCU algorithms [PaulEMcKenney2009MaliciousURCU],
+which Mathieu Desnoyers is now maintaining [MathieuDesnoyers2009URCU]
+[MathieuDesnoyersPhD].  TINY_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009BloatWatchRCU] made
+its appearance, as did expedited RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU].
+The problem of resizeable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path
+to a solution [JoshTriplett2009RPHash].
+
 Bibtex Entries
 
 @article{Kung80
@@ -730,6 +742,11 @@ Revised:
 "
 }
 
+#
+#       "What is RCU?" LWN series.
+#
+########################################################################
+
 @article{DinakarGuniguntala2008IBMSysJ
 ,author="D. Guniguntala and P. E. McKenney and J. Triplett and J. Walpole"
 ,title="The read-copy-update mechanism for supporting real-time applications on shared-memory multiprocessor systems with {Linux}"
@@ -820,3 +837,39 @@ Revised:
         Uniprocessor assumptions allow simplified RCU implementation.
 "
 }
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="[{PATCH} -tip 0/3] expedited 'big hammer' {RCU} grace periods"
+,month="June"
+,day="25"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/25/306}
+[Viewed August 16, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+        First posting of expedited RCU to be accepted into -tip.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JoshTriplett2009RPHash
+,Author="Josh Triplett"
+,Title="Scalable concurrent hash tables via relativistic programming"