Updates for timekeeping, timers and related drivers:
Core code:
- Cure a couple of incorrectness issues in the posix CPU timer code to
prevent that the tick dependency for NOHZ full is kept alive for no
reason.
- Avoid expensive double reprogramming of the clockevent device in
hrtimer_start_range_ns().
- Avoid pointless SMP function calls when the clock was set to avoid
disturbing CPUs which do not have any affected timers queued.
- Make the clocksource watchdog test work correctly when CONFIG_HZ is
less than 100.
Drivers:
- Prefer the ARM architected timer over the Exynos timer which is way
more expensive to access.
- Add device tree bindings for new Ingenic SoCs
- The usual improvements and cleanups all over the place
clocksource: Make clocksource watchdog test safe for slow-HZ systems
The clocksource watchdog test sets a local JIFFIES_SHIFT macro and assumes
that HZ is >= 100. For smaller HZ values this shift value is too large and
causes undefined behaviour.
Move the HZ-based definitions of JIFFIES_SHIFT from kernel/time/jiffies.c
to kernel/time/tick-internal.h so the clocksource watchdog test can utilize
them, which makes it work correctly with all HZ values.
[ tglx: Resolved conflicts and massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210812000133.GA402890@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/
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