Merge tag 'timers-core-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Time and clocksource/clockevent related updates:

  Core changes:

   - Infrastructure to support per CPU "broadcast" devices for per CPU
     clockevent devices which stop in deep idle states. This allows us
     to utilize the more efficient architected timer on certain ARM SoCs
     for normal operation instead of permanentely using the slow to
     access SoC specific clockevent device.

   - Print the name of the broadcast/wakeup device in /proc/timer_list

   - Make the clocksource watchdog more robust against delays between
     reading the current active clocksource and the watchdog
     clocksource. Such delays can be caused by NMIs, SMIs and vCPU
     preemption.

     Handle this by reading the watchdog clocksource twice, i.e. before
     and after reading the current active clocksource. In case that the
     two watchdog reads shows an excessive time delta, the read sequence
     is repeated up to 3 times.

   - Improve the debug output and add a test module for the watchdog
     mechanism.

   - Reimplementation of the venerable time64_to_tm() function with a
     faster and significantly smaller version. Straight from the source,
     i.e. the author of the related research paper contributed this!

  Driver changes:

   - No new drivers, not even new device tree bindings!

   - Fixes, improvements and cleanups and all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  time/kunit: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE()
  time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm()
  clockevents: Use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add()
  clocksource: Print deviation in nanoseconds when a clocksource becomes unstable
  clocksource: Provide kernel module to test clocksource watchdog
  clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold
  clocksource: Limit number of CPUs checked for clock synchronization
  clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable
  clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected
  clockevents: Add missing parameter documentation
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Drop unnecessary restore
  clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Improve Allwinner A64 timer workaround
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Remove duplicated argument in arm_global_timer
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Make symbol 'gt_clk_rate_change_nb' static
  arm: zynq: don't disable CONFIG_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER due to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ anymore
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Implement rate compensation whenever source clock changes
  clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Rename unreasonable array names
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Save and restore timer TIOCP_CFG
  clocksource/drivers/mediatek: Ack and disable interrupts on suspend
  clocksource/drivers/samsung_pwm: Constify source IO memory
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 26453f250683..d1c9e9766984 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -581,6 +581,28 @@
 			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
 			systems.
 
+	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
+			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
+			external delays before the clock will be marked
+			unstable.  Defaults to three retries, that is,
+			four attempts to read the clock under test.
+
+	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
+			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
+			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
+			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
+			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
+			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
+			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
+			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
+			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
+
+	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
+			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
+			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
+			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
+			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
+
 	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
 			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
 			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit