Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Time and clocksource/clockevent related updates:
Core changes:
- Infrastructure to support per CPU "broadcast" devices for per CPU
clockevent devices which stop in deep idle states. This allows us
to utilize the more efficient architected timer on certain ARM SoCs
for normal operation instead of permanentely using the slow to
access SoC specific clockevent device.
- Print the name of the broadcast/wakeup device in /proc/timer_list
- Make the clocksource watchdog more robust against delays between
reading the current active clocksource and the watchdog
clocksource. Such delays can be caused by NMIs, SMIs and vCPU
preemption.
Handle this by reading the watchdog clocksource twice, i.e. before
and after reading the current active clocksource. In case that the
two watchdog reads shows an excessive time delta, the read sequence
is repeated up to 3 times.
- Improve the debug output and add a test module for the watchdog
mechanism.
- Reimplementation of the venerable time64_to_tm() function with a
faster and significantly smaller version. Straight from the source,
i.e. the author of the related research paper contributed this!
Driver changes:
- No new drivers, not even new device tree bindings!
- Fixes, improvements and cleanups and all over the place"
* tag 'timers-core-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
time/kunit: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE()
time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm()
clockevents: Use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add()
clocksource: Print deviation in nanoseconds when a clocksource becomes unstable
clocksource: Provide kernel module to test clocksource watchdog
clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold
clocksource: Limit number of CPUs checked for clock synchronization
clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable
clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected
clockevents: Add missing parameter documentation
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Drop unnecessary restore
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Improve Allwinner A64 timer workaround
clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Remove duplicated argument in arm_global_timer
clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Make symbol 'gt_clk_rate_change_nb' static
arm: zynq: don't disable CONFIG_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER due to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ anymore
clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Implement rate compensation whenever source clock changes
clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Rename unreasonable array names
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Save and restore timer TIOCP_CFG
clocksource/drivers/mediatek: Ack and disable interrupts on suspend
clocksource/drivers/samsung_pwm: Constify source IO memory
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