Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for the time/timer core subsystem:

   - Harden the user space controllable hrtimer interfaces further to
     protect against unpriviledged DoS attempts by arming timers in the
     past.

   - Add per-capacity hierarchies to the timer migration code to prevent
     timer migration accross different capacity domains. This code has
     been disabled last minute as there is a pathological problem with
     SoCs which advertise a larger number of capacity domains. The
     problem is under investigation and the code won't be active before
     v7.3, but that turned out to be less intrusive than a full revert
     as it preserves the preparatory steps and allows people to work on
     the final resolution

   - Export time namespace functionality as a recent user can be built
     as a module.

   - Initialize the jiffies clocksource before using it. The recent
     hardening against time moving backward requires that the related
     members of struct clocksource have been initialized, otherwise it
     clamps the readout to 0, which makes time stand sill and causes
     boot delays.

   - Fix a more than twenty year old PID reference count leak in an
     error path of the POSIX CPU timer code.

   - The usual small fixes, improvements and cleanups all over the
     place"

* tag 'timers-core-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
  posix-cpu-timers: Fix pid refcount leak in do_cpu_nanosleep() error path
  time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage
  timers/migration: Temporarily disable per capacity hierarchies
  timers/migration: Turn tmigr_hierarchy level_list into a flexible array
  timers/migration: Deactivate per-capacity hierarchies under nohz_full
  timers/migration: Fix hotplug migrator selection target on asymetric capacity machines
  ntsync: Honour caller's time namespace for absolute MONOTONIC timeouts
  time/namespace: Export init_time_ns and do_timens_ktime_to_host()
  timers/migration: Update stale @online doc to @available
  timers: Fix flseep() typo in kernel-doc comment
  hrtimer: Fix the bogus return type of __hrtimer_start_range_ns()
  hrtimer: Return ktime_t from hrtimer_get_next_event()/hrtimer_next_event_without()
  clocksource: Clean up clocksource_update_freq() functions
  alarmtimer: Remove stale return description from alarm_handle_timer()
  selftests/posix_timers: Use CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID for ITIMER_PROF measurements
  scripts/timers: Add timer_migration_tree.py
  timers/migration: Handle capacity in connect tracepoints
  timers/migration: Split per-capacity hierarchies
  timers/migration: Track CPUs in a hierarchy
  timers/migration: Abstract out hierarchy to prepare for CPU capacity awareness
  ...

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 41 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 6e173d70d825..ea5be5870e51 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -337,48 +337,32 @@ void alarm_init(struct alarm *alarm, enum alarmtimer_type type,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_init);
 
 /**
- * alarm_start - Sets an absolute alarm to fire
- * @alarm: ptr to alarm to set
- * @start: time to run the alarm
+ * alarm_start_timer - Sets an alarm to fire
+ * @alarm:	Pointer to alarm to set
+ * @expires:	Expiry time
+ * @relative:	True if @expires is relative
+ *
+ * Returns: True if the alarm was queued. False if it already expired
  */
-void alarm_start(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start)
+bool alarm_start_timer(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t expires, bool relative)
 {
 	struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];
 
-	scoped_guard(spinlock_irqsave, &base->lock) {
-		alarm->node.expires = start;
-		alarmtimer_enqueue(base, alarm);
-		hrtimer_start(&alarm->timer, alarm->node.expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
-	}
+	if (relative)
+		expires = ktime_add_safe(expires, base->get_ktime());
 
 	trace_alarmtimer_start(alarm, base->get_ktime());
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_start);
-
-/**
- * alarm_start_relative - Sets a relative alarm to fire
- * @alarm: ptr to alarm to set
- * @start: time relative to now to run the alarm
- */
-void alarm_start_relative(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start)
-{
-	struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];
-
-	start = ktime_add_safe(start, base->get_ktime());
-	alarm_start(alarm, start);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_start_relative);
-
-void alarm_restart(struct alarm *alarm)
-{
-	struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];
 
 	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&base->lock);
-	hrtimer_set_expires(&alarm->timer, alarm->node.expires);
-	hrtimer_restart(&alarm->timer);
+	alarm->node.expires = expires;
 	alarmtimer_enqueue(base, alarm);
+	if (!hrtimer_start_range_ns_user(&alarm->timer, expires, 0, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)) {
+		alarmtimer_dequeue(base, alarm);
+		return false;
+	}
+	return true;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_restart);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_start_timer);
 
 /**
  * alarm_try_to_cancel - Tries to cancel an alarm timer
@@ -512,8 +496,6 @@ static enum alarmtimer_type clock2alarm(clockid_t clockid)
  * @now: time at the timer expiration
  *
  * Posix timer callback for expired alarm timers.
- *
- * Return: whether the timer is to be restarted
  */
 static void alarm_handle_timer(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now)
 {
@@ -527,12 +509,12 @@ static void alarm_handle_timer(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now)
  * alarm_timer_rearm - Posix timer callback for rearming timer
  * @timr:	Pointer to the posixtimer data struct
  */
-static void alarm_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timr)
+static bool alarm_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timr)
 {
 	struct alarm *alarm = &timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer;
 
 	timr->it_overrun += alarm_forward_now(alarm, timr->it_interval);
-	alarm_start(alarm, alarm->node.expires);
+	return alarm_start_timer(alarm, alarm->node.expires, false);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -588,7 +570,7 @@ static void alarm_timer_wait_running(struct k_itimer *timr)
  * @absolute:	Expiry value is absolute time
  * @sigev_none:	Posix timer does not deliver signals
  */
-static void alarm_timer_arm(struct k_itimer *timr, ktime_t expires,
+static bool alarm_timer_arm(struct k_itimer *timr, ktime_t expires,
 			    bool absolute, bool sigev_none)
 {
 	struct alarm *alarm = &timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer;
@@ -596,10 +578,16 @@ static void alarm_timer_arm(struct k_itimer *timr, ktime_t expires,
 
 	if (!absolute)
 		expires = ktime_add_safe(expires, base->get_ktime());
-	if (sigev_none)
+
+	/*
+	 * sigev_none needs to update the expires value and pretend
+	 * that the timer is queued
+	 */
+	if (sigev_none) {
 		alarm->node.expires = expires;
-	else
-		alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer, expires);
+		return true;
+	}
+	return alarm_start_timer(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer, expires, false);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -706,7 +694,9 @@ static int alarmtimer_do_nsleep(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t absexp,
 	alarm->data = (void *)current;
 	do {
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-		alarm_start(alarm, absexp);
+		if (!alarm_start_timer(alarm, absexp, false))
+			alarm->data = NULL;
+
 		if (likely(alarm->data))
 			schedule();