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Linus Torvalds 442489c219 Time, timers and related driver updates:
- Prevent unnecessary timer softirq invocations by extending the tracking
    of the next expiring timer in the timer wheel beyond the existing NOHZ
    functionality. The tracking overhead at enqueue time is within the
    noise, but on sensitive workloads the avoidance of the soft interrupt
    invocation is a measurable improvement.
 
  - The obligatory new clocksource driver for Ingenic X100 OST
 
  - The usual fixes, improvements, cleanups and extensions for newer chip
    variants all over the driver space.
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Time, timers and related driver updates:

   - Prevent unnecessary timer softirq invocations by extending the
     tracking of the next expiring timer in the timer wheel beyond the
     existing NOHZ functionality.

     The tracking overhead at enqueue time is within the noise, but on
     sensitive workloads the avoidance of the soft interrupt invocation
     is a measurable improvement.

   - The obligatory new clocksource driver for Ingenic X100 OST

   - The usual fixes, improvements, cleanups and extensions for newer
     chip variants all over the driver space"

* tag 'timers-core-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when necessary
  clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Add support for the Ingenic X1000 OST.
  dt-bindings: timer: Add Ingenic X1000 OST bindings.
  clocksource/drivers: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  clocksource/drivers/nomadik-mtu: Handle 32kHz clock
  clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Use "kHz" for kilohertz
  clocksource/drivers/imx: Add support for i.MX TPM driver with ARM64
  clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Add high resolution timer support for SMP/SMT.
  timers: Lower base clock forwarding threshold
  timers: Remove must_forward_clk
  timers: Spare timer softirq until next expiry
  timers: Expand clk forward logic beyond nohz
  timers: Reuse next expiry cache after nohz exit
  timers: Always keep track of next expiry
  timers: Optimize _next_timer_interrupt() level iteration
  timers: Add comments about calc_index() ceiling work
  timers: Move trigger_dyntick_cpu() to enqueue_timer()
  timers: Use only bucket expiry for base->next_expiry value
  timers: Preserve higher bits of expiration on index calculation
  clocksource/drivers/timer-atmel-tcb: Add sama5d2 support
  ...
2020-08-04 18:17:37 -07:00
arch Time, timers and related driver updates: 2020-08-04 18:17:37 -07:00
block Remove uninitialized_var() macro for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:49:43 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-08-03 10:40:14 -07:00
Documentation Time, timers and related driver updates: 2020-08-04 18:17:37 -07:00
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init Merge branch 'exec-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-08-04 14:27:25 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel Time, timers and related driver updates: 2020-08-04 18:17:37 -07:00
lib Remove uninitialized_var() macro for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:49:43 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Remove uninitialized_var() macro for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:49:43 -07:00
net Merge branch 'exec-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-08-04 14:27:25 -07:00
samples samples/vfs: avoid warning in statx override 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
scripts selinux/stable-5.9 PR 20200803 2020-08-04 14:18:01 -07:00
security cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9 2020-08-04 15:02:07 -07:00
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usr usr: Add support for zstd compressed initramfs 2020-07-31 11:49:08 +02:00
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.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
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Makefile Automatic variable initialization updates for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:38:35 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.