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

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()
  ...

include/linux/seqlock.h

@@ -116,6 +116,22 @@ repeat:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/**
+ * raw_read_seqcount - Read the raw seqcount
+ * @s: pointer to seqcount_t
+ * Returns: count to be passed to read_seqcount_retry
+ *
+ * raw_read_seqcount opens a read critical section of the given
+ * seqcount without any lockdep checking and without checking or
+ * masking the LSB. Calling code is responsible for handling that.
+ */
+static inline unsigned raw_read_seqcount(const seqcount_t *s)
+{
+	unsigned ret = ACCESS_ONCE(s->sequence);
+	smp_rmb();
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /**
  * raw_read_seqcount_begin - start seq-read critical section w/o lockdep
  * @s: pointer to seqcount_t
@@ -217,6 +233,17 @@ static inline void raw_write_seqcount_end(seqcount_t *s)
 	s->sequence++;
 }
 
+/*
+ * raw_write_seqcount_latch - redirect readers to even/odd copy
+ * @s: pointer to seqcount_t
+ */
+static inline void raw_write_seqcount_latch(seqcount_t *s)
+{
+       smp_wmb();      /* prior stores before incrementing "sequence" */
+       s->sequence++;
+       smp_wmb();      /* increment "sequence" before following stores */
+}
+
 /*
  * Sequence counter only version assumes that callers are using their
  * own mutexing.