Merge tag 'timers-core-2020-01-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timekeeping and timers departement provides:

   - Time namespace support:

     If a container migrates from one host to another then it expects
     that clocks based on MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME are not subject to
     disruption. Due to different boot time and non-suspended runtime
     these clocks can differ significantly on two hosts, in the worst
     case time goes backwards which is a violation of the POSIX
     requirements.

     The time namespace addresses this problem. It allows to set offsets
     for clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME once after creation and before
     tasks are associated with the namespace. These offsets are taken
     into account by timers and timekeeping including the VDSO.

     Offsets for wall clock based clocks (REALTIME/TAI) are not provided
     by this mechanism. While in theory possible, the overhead and code
     complexity would be immense and not justified by the esoteric
     potential use cases which were discussed at Plumbers '18.

     The overhead for tasks in the root namespace (ie where host time
     offsets = 0) is in the noise and great effort was made to ensure
     that especially in the VDSO. If time namespace is disabled in the
     kernel configuration the code is compiled out.

     Kudos to Andrei Vagin and Dmitry Sofanov who implemented this
     feature and kept on for more than a year addressing review
     comments, finding better solutions. A pleasant experience.

   - Overhaul of the alarmtimer device dependency handling to ensure
     that the init/suspend/resume ordering is correct.

   - A new clocksource/event driver for Microchip PIT64

   - Suspend/resume support for the Hyper-V clocksource

   - The usual pile of fixes, updates and improvements mostly in the
     driver code"

* tag 'timers-core-2020-01-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() a stub when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n
  alarmtimer: Use wakeup source from alarmtimer platform device
  alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer platform device child of RTC device
  alarmtimer: Update alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() docs to reflect reality
  hrtimer: Add missing sparse annotation for __run_timer()
  lib/vdso: Only read hrtimer_res when needed in __cvdso_clock_getres()
  MIPS: vdso: Define BUILD_VDSO32 when building a 32bit kernel
  clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Set TSC clocksource as default w/ InvariantTSC
  clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Untangle stimers and timesync from clocksources
  clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Fix sparse warning
  clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Rename Exynos to lowercase
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix uninitialized pointer access
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Switch to platform_get_irq
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
  clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Fix variable declaration in em_sti_probe
  clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
  clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Fix memory leak of timer
  clocksource/drivers/cadence-ttc: Use ttc driver as platform driver
  clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Add Microchip PIT64B support
  clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Reserve PAGE_SIZE space for tsc page
  ...

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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a34064a031a5..9b7f144a6d35 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1080,6 +1080,14 @@ config UTS_NS
 	  In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the
 	  uname() system call
 
+config TIME_NS
+	bool "TIME namespace"
+	depends on GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
+	default y
+	help
+	  In this namespace boottime and monotonic clocks can be set.
+	  The time will keep going with the same pace.
+
 config IPC_NS
 	bool "IPC namespace"
 	depends on (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE)