Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - timekeeping: Cure a subtle drift issue on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

 - nohz: Make CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off command line option behave the
   same way.  Fixes a long standing load accounting wreckage.

 - clocksource/ARM: Kconfig update to avoid ARM=n wreckage

 - clocksource/ARM: Fixlets for the AT91 and SH clocksource/clockevents

 - Trivial documentation update and kzalloc conversion from akpms pile

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off
  time: Fix 1ns/tick drift w/ GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
  clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Hide eventstream Kconfig on non-ARM
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Release clock when sh_tmu_register() fails
  clocksource: sh_mtu2: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support
  clocksource: sh_mtu2: Release clock when sh_mtu2_register() fails
  ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register
  tick: Document tick_do_timer_cpu
  timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)
  NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled

5 files changed, 32 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 6abb03d..08a7652 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ module_param(rcu_idle_gp_delay, int, 0644);
 static int rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay = RCU_IDLE_LAZY_GP_DELAY;
 module_param(rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay, int, 0644);
 
-extern int tick_nohz_enabled;
+extern int tick_nohz_active;
 
 /*
  * Try to advance callbacks for all flavors of RCU on the current CPU, but
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(int cpu)
 	int tne;
 
 	/* Handle nohz enablement switches conservatively. */
-	tne = ACCESS_ONCE(tick_nohz_enabled);
+	tne = ACCESS_ONCE(tick_nohz_active);
 	if (tne != rdtp->tick_nohz_enabled_snap) {
 		if (rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(cpu, NULL))
 			invoke_rcu_core(); /* force nohz to see update. */
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index 64522ec..162b03a 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device);
  */
 ktime_t tick_next_period;
 ktime_t tick_period;
+
+/*
+ * tick_do_timer_cpu is a timer core internal variable which holds the CPU NR
+ * which is responsible for calling do_timer(), i.e. the timekeeping stuff. This
+ * variable has two functions:
+ *
+ * 1) Prevent a thundering herd issue of a gazillion of CPUs trying to grab the
+ *    timekeeping lock all at once. Only the CPU which is assigned to do the
+ *    update is handling it.
+ *
+ * 2) Hand off the duty in the NOHZ idle case by setting the value to
+ *    TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE, i.e. a non existing CPU. So the next cpu which looks
+ *    at it will take over and keep the time keeping alive.  The handover
+ *    procedure also covers cpu hotplug.
+ */
 int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT;
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 3612fc7..ea20f7d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ void __init tick_nohz_init(void)
 /*
  * NO HZ enabled ?
  */
-int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly  = 1;
-
+static int tick_nohz_enabled __read_mostly  = 1;
+int tick_nohz_active  __read_mostly;
 /*
  * Enable / Disable tickless mode
  */
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
 	ktime_t now, idle;
 
-	if (!tick_nohz_enabled)
+	if (!tick_nohz_active)
 		return -1;
 
 	now = ktime_get();
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ u64 get_cpu_iowait_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time)
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
 	ktime_t now, iowait;
 
-	if (!tick_nohz_enabled)
+	if (!tick_nohz_active)
 		return -1;
 
 	now = ktime_get();
@@ -711,8 +711,10 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE))
+	if (unlikely(ts->nohz_mode == NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE)) {
+		ts->sleep_length = (ktime_t) { .tv64 = NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ };
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	if (need_resched())
 		return false;
@@ -799,11 +801,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
 	local_irq_disable();
 
 	ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
-	/*
-	 * set ts->inidle unconditionally. even if the system did not
-	 * switch to nohz mode the cpu frequency governers rely on the
-	 * update of the idle time accounting in tick_nohz_start_idle().
-	 */
 	ts->inidle = 1;
 	__tick_nohz_idle_enter(ts);
 
@@ -973,7 +970,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
 	ktime_t next;
 
-	if (!tick_nohz_enabled)
+	if (!tick_nohz_active)
 		return;
 
 	local_irq_disable();
@@ -981,7 +978,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void)
 		local_irq_enable();
 		return;
 	}
-
+	tick_nohz_active = 1;
 	ts->nohz_mode = NOHZ_MODE_LOWRES;
 
 	/*
@@ -1139,8 +1136,10 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
-	if (tick_nohz_enabled)
+	if (tick_nohz_enabled) {
 		ts->nohz_mode = NOHZ_MODE_HIGHRES;
+		tick_nohz_active = 1;
+	}
 #endif
 }
 #endif /* HIGH_RES_TIMERS */
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 3abf534..87b4f00 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ static inline void old_vsyscall_fixup(struct timekeeper *tk)
 	tk->xtime_nsec -= remainder;
 	tk->xtime_nsec += 1ULL << tk->shift;
 	tk->ntp_error += remainder << tk->ntp_error_shift;
-
+	tk->ntp_error -= (1ULL << tk->shift) << tk->ntp_error_shift;
 }
 #else
 #define old_vsyscall_fixup(tk)
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 6582b82..accfd24 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1518,9 +1518,8 @@ static int init_timers_cpu(int cpu)
 			/*
 			 * The APs use this path later in boot
 			 */
-			base = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*base),
-						GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
-						cpu_to_node(cpu));
+			base = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*base), GFP_KERNEL,
+					    cpu_to_node(cpu));
 			if (!base)
 				return -ENOMEM;