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

Pull timer and time updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather large update of timers, timekeeping & co

   - Core timekeeping code is year-2038 safe now for 32bit machines.
     Now we just need to fix all in kernel users and the gazillion of
     user space interfaces which rely on timespec/timeval :)

   - Better cache layout for the timekeeping internal data structures.

   - Proper nanosecond based interfaces for in kernel users.

   - Tree wide cleanup of code which wants nanoseconds but does hoops
     and loops to convert back and forth from timespecs.  Some of it
     definitely belongs into the ugly code museum.

   - Consolidation of the timekeeping interface zoo.

   - A fast NMI safe accessor to clock monotonic for tracing.  This is a
     long standing request to support correlated user/kernel space
     traces.  With proper NTP frequency correction it's also suitable
     for correlation of traces accross separate machines.

   - Checkpoint/restart support for timerfd.

   - A few NOHZ[_FULL] improvements in the [hr]timer code.

   - Code move from kernel to kernel/time of all time* related code.

   - New clocksource/event drivers from the ARM universe.  I'm really
     impressed that despite an architected timer in the newer chips SoC
     manufacturers insist on inventing new and differently broken SoC
     specific timers.

[ Ed. "Impressed"? I don't think that word means what you think it means ]

   - Another round of code move from arch to drivers.  Looks like most
     of the legacy mess in ARM regarding timers is sorted out except for
     a few obnoxious strongholds.

   - The usual updates and fixlets all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  timekeeping: Fixup typo in update_vsyscall_old definition
  clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts
  timekeeping: Use cached ntp_tick_length when accumulating error
  timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz
  timekeeping: Minor fixup for timespec64->timespec assignment
  ftrace: Provide trace clocks monotonic
  timekeeping: Provide fast and NMI safe access to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
  seqcount: Add raw_write_seqcount_latch()
  seqcount: Provide raw_read_seqcount()
  timekeeping: Use tk_read_base as argument for timekeeping_get_ns()
  timekeeping: Create struct tk_read_base and use it in struct timekeeper
  timekeeping: Restructure the timekeeper some more
  clocksource: Get rid of cycle_last
  clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code
  clocksource: Make delta calculation a function
  wireless: ath9k: Get rid of timespec conversions
  drm: vmwgfx: Use nsec based interfaces
  drm: i915: Use nsec based interfaces
  timekeeping: Provide ktime_get_raw()
  hangcheck-timer: Use ktime_get_ns()
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 56b0c338061e..b6025f9e36c6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc);
 static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc;
 
 /*
- * We compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource
+ * We used to compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource
  * structure to avoid a nasty time-warp. This can be observed in a
  * very small window right after one CPU updated cycle_last under
  * xtime/vsyscall_gtod lock and the other CPU reads a TSC value which
@@ -960,26 +960,23 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc;
  * due to the unsigned delta calculation of the time keeping core
  * code, which is necessary to support wrapping clocksources like pm
  * timer.
+ *
+ * This sanity check is now done in the core timekeeping code.
+ * checking the result of read_tsc() - cycle_last for being negative.
+ * That works because CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64) does not mask out any bit.
  */
 static cycle_t read_tsc(struct clocksource *cs)
 {
-	cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)get_cycles();
-
-	return ret >= clocksource_tsc.cycle_last ?
-		ret : clocksource_tsc.cycle_last;
-}
-
-static void resume_tsc(struct clocksource *cs)
-{
-	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3))
-		clocksource_tsc.cycle_last = 0;
+	return (cycle_t)get_cycles();
 }
 
+/*
+ * .mask MUST be CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64). See comment above read_tsc()
+ */
 static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc = {
 	.name                   = "tsc",
 	.rating                 = 300,
 	.read                   = read_tsc,
-	.resume			= resume_tsc,
 	.mask                   = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
 	.flags                  = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS |
 				  CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY,