Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD

doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.

init/Kconfig

@@ -470,7 +470,6 @@ choice
 config TREE_RCU
 	bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU"
 	depends on !PREEMPT && SMP
-	select IRQ_WORK
 	help
 	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
 	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
@@ -480,7 +479,6 @@ config TREE_RCU
 config PREEMPT_RCU
 	bool "Preemptible tree-based hierarchical RCU"
 	depends on PREEMPT
-	select IRQ_WORK
 	help
 	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
 	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
@@ -501,9 +499,17 @@ config TINY_RCU
 
 endchoice
 
+config SRCU
+	bool
+	help
+	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
+	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
+	  sections.
+
 config TASKS_RCU
 	bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
 	default n
+	select SRCU
 	help
 	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
 	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
@@ -668,9 +674,10 @@ config RCU_BOOST
 
 config RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
 	int "Real-time priority to use for RCU worker threads"
-	range 1 99
-	depends on RCU_BOOST
-	default 1
+	range 1 99 if RCU_BOOST
+	range 0 99 if !RCU_BOOST
+	default 1 if RCU_BOOST
+	default 0 if !RCU_BOOST
 	help
 	  This option specifies the SCHED_FIFO priority value that will be
 	  assigned to the rcuc/n and rcub/n threads and is also the value
@@ -1595,6 +1602,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
 	depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
 	select ANON_INODES
 	select IRQ_WORK
+	select SRCU
 	help
 	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
 	  by software and hardware.