* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
  dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
  time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
  time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
  alarmtimers: Fix error handling
  clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
  posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
  s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
  clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
  clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
  nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
  proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
  nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
  nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
  cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
  alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
  alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
  alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
  alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
  alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
  ...

RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else.  This
commit therefore removes this variable.  This reduces memory footprint
and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from
the dyntick-idle path.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded
with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards
analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the
buffer.
Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us update idle/iowait counters
unconditionally if the given CPU is in the idle loop.

This doesn't work well outside of CPU governors which are singletons
so nobody (except for IRQ) can race with them.

We will need to use both functions from /proc/stat handler to properly
handle nohz idle/iowait times.

Make the update depend on a non NULL last_update_time argument.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/11f23179472635ce52e78921d47a20216b872f23.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.

Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only
users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to
kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files.

[ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header
  	file. Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

When NOHZ=y and high res timers are disabled (via cmdline or
Kconfig) tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() will notify the user about
switching into NOHZ mode. Nothing is printed for the case where
HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y. Fix this for the HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y case by
duplicating the printk from the low res NOHZ path in the high
res NOHZ path.

This confused me since I was thinking 'dmesg | grep -i NOHZ' would
tell me if NOHZ was enabled, but if I have hrtimers there is
nothing.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1295419594-13085-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt
  timer: Added usleep_range timer
  Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer"
  clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew
  posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create()
  timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
  timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer

Conflicts:
	include/linux/sched.h

Merge reason: Add the leftover .35 urgent bits, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
xtime_lock.

Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
many-core systems.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>