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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling
to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al)
- Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using
atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the
cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations.
With these performance improvements the generic implementation of
refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got
confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and
REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled
unconditionally. (Will Deacon)
- Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function
locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t
locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions
locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line
locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the <linux/refcount.h> header
locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants
locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed
locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values
futex: Prevent exit livelock
futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
futex: Add mutex around futex exit
futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
futex: Sanitize exit state handling
futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
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