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    Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · e7fda6c4
    Linus Torvalds authored
    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()
      ...
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