Changes in Kconfig

f4b369c6fe0ceaba2da2daff8c9eb415f85926dd - Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:28:57 +0200

Merge branch 'next' into for-linusPrepare input updates for 7.1 merge window. List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

0421ccdfad0d92713a812a5aeb7d07b0ea7213c8 - Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:44:42 +0100

Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into nextSync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specificallychanges to ALPS driver. List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

c1fe867b5bf9c57ab7856486d342720e2b205eed - Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:27:07 +0200

Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipPull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner: - A rework of the hrtimer subsystem to reduce the overhead for frequently armed timers, especially the hrtick scheduler timer: - Better timer locality decision - Simplification of the evaluation of the first expiry time by keeping track of the neighbor timers in the RB-tree by providing a RB-tree variant with neighbor links. That avoids walking the RB-tree on removal to find the next expiry time, but even more important allows to quickly evaluate whether a timer which is rearmed changes the position in the RB-tree with the modified expiry time or not. If not, the dequeue/enqueue sequence which both can end up in rebalancing can be completely avoided. - Deferred reprogramming of the underlying clock event device. This optimizes for the situation where a hrtimer callback sets the need resched bit. In that case the code attempts to defer the re-programming of the clock event device up to the point where the scheduler has picked the next task and has the next hrtick timer armed. In case that there is no immediate reschedule or soft interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule point in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed in one of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes stale. - Support for clocksource coupled clockevents The TSC deadline timer is coupled to the TSC. The next event is programmed in TSC time. Currently this is done by converting the CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry value into a relative timeout, converting it into TSC ticks, reading the TSC adding the delta ticks and writing the deadline MSR. As the timekeeping core has the conversion factors for the TSC already, the whole back and forth conversion can be completely avoided. The timekeeping core calculates the reverse conversion factors from nanoseconds to TSC ticks and utilizes the base timestamps of TSC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC which are updated once per tick. This allows a direct conversion into the TSC deadline value without reading the time and as a bonus keeps the deadline conversion in sync with the TSC conversion factors, which are updated by adjtimex() on systems with NTP/PTP enabled. - Allow inlining of the clocksource read and clockevent write functions when they are tiny enough, e.g. on x86 RDTSC and WRMSR. With all those enhancements in place a hrtick enabled scheduler provides the same performance as without hrtick. But also other hrtimer users obviously benefit from these optimizations. - Robustness improvements and cleanups of historical sins in the hrtimer and timekeeping code. - Rewrite of the clocksource watchdog. The clocksource watchdog code has over time reached the state of an impenetrable maze of duct tape and staples. The original design, which was made in the context of systems far smaller than today, is based on the assumption that the to be monitored clocksource (TSC) can be trivially compared against a known to be stable clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM timer). Over the years this rather naive approach turned out to have major flaws. Long delays between the watchdog invocations can cause wrap arounds of the reference clocksource. The access to the reference clocksource degrades on large multi-sockets systems dure to interconnect congestion. This has been addressed with various heuristics which degraded the accuracy of the watchdog to the point that it fails to detect actual TSC problems on older hardware which exposes slow inter CPU drifts due to firmware manipulating the TSC to hide SMI time. The rewrite addresses this by: - Restricting the validation against the reference clocksource to the boot CPU which is usually closest to the legacy block which contains the reference clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM). - Do a round robin validation betwen the boot CPU and the other CPUs based only on the TSC with an algorithm similar to the TSC synchronization code during CPU hotplug. - Being more leniant versus remote timeouts - The usual tiny fixes, cleanups and enhancements all over the place* tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits) alarmtimer: Access timerqueue node under lock in suspend hrtimer: Fix incorrect #endif comment for BITS_PER_LONG check posix-timers: Fix stale function name in comment timers: Get this_cpu once while clearing the idle state clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely clocksource: Don't use non-continuous clocksources as watchdog x86/tsc: Handle CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES correctly MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG parisc: Remove unused clocksource flags hrtimer: Add a helper to retrieve a hrtimer from its timerqueue node hrtimer: Remove trailing comma after HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES hrtimer: Mark index and clockid of clock base as const hrtimer: Drop unnecessary pointer indirection in hrtimer_expire_entry event hrtimer: Drop spurious space in 'enum hrtimer_base_type' hrtimer: Don't zero-initialize ret in hrtimer_nanosleep() hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_get_expires_ns() timekeeping: Mark offsets array as const timekeeping/auxclock: Consistently use raw timekeeper for tk_setup_internals() timer_list: Print offset as signed integer tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing ... List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

42d3b66d4cdbacfc9d120d2301b8de89cc29a914 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:17:56 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextBackmerging to bring in 7.00-rc3. Important ahead GPU SVM merging THPsupport.Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

ced7072a3ad65698f0ad378c8f8566379fe50723 - MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:17:52 +0100

MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOGMIPS selects CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG, but none of the clocksources actuallysets the MUST_VERIFY flag. So compiling the watchdog in is a pointlessexercise. Remove the selects.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123231521.723433371@kernel.org List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

f09812b85fa6f41058bcc46e70ac406bf9b0493a - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:23:04 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextSync with v7.0-rc1 which contains a few treewide changes affecting i915.Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

8b85987d3cf50178f67618122d9f3bb202f62f42 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:48:20 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextLet's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next windowSigned-off-by: Maxime Ripard List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

c17ee635fd3a482b2ad2bf5e269755c2eae5f25e - Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:09:45 +0100

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes7.0-rc1 was just released, let's merge it to kick the new release cycle.Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

48295ab42dae91b6903221adf1c316f08ffa5e09 - Merge tag 'timers-clocksource-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:37:54 +0100

Merge tag 'timers-clocksource-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipPull clocksource updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather small set of boring cleanups, fixes and improvements"* tag 'timers-clocksource-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Move GIC timer to request_percpu_irq() clocksource/drivers/timer-sp804: Fix an Oops when read_current_timer is called on ARM32 platforms where the SP804 is not registered as the sched_clock. clocksource/drivers/armada-370-xp: Fix dead link to timer binding clocksource/drivers/timer-integrator-ap: Add missing Kconfig dependency on OF clocksource/drivers/sh_tmu: Always leave device running after probe List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

7eaf8e32de5f4ed4defda6fff81749041bb9d23f - Merge tag 'timers-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/clocksource

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:23:51 +0100

Merge tag 'timers-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/clocksourcePull clocksource/events updates from Daniel Lezcano: - Always leave device running after probe in the sh TMU driver to overcome the locking validation scheme warning when the PREEMPT_RT is enabled (Niklas Söderlund) - Add missing Kconfig dependency on OF for the integrator AP (Bartosz Golaszewski) - Fix a dead link in timer bindings for the Armada 370XP (Soham Metha) - Fix an Oops when read_current_timer is called on ARM32 platforms where the SP804 is not registered as the sched_clock (Stephen Eta Zhou) - Move GIC timer to use request_percpu_irq() instead of setup_percpu_irq() to allow the removal of the latter (Marc Zyngier)Link: https://patch.msgid.link/75b163aa-5098-4949-a539-ae1e59e3aaca@linaro.org List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

cc4adab164b772a34b3340d644b7c4728498581e - Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:06:55 +0100

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-nextMerge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWCconfig database defining UBWC_6).Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

2246464821e2820572e6feefca2029f17629cc50 - clocksource/drivers/timer-integrator-ap: Add missing Kconfig dependency on OF

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:17:23 +0100

clocksource/drivers/timer-integrator-ap: Add missing Kconfig dependency on OFThis driver accesses the of_aliases global variable declared inlinux/of.h and defined in drivers/base/of.c. It requires OF support orwill cause a link failure. Add the missing Kconfig dependency.Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601152233.og6LdeUo-lkp@intel.com/Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116111723.10585-1-bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

5add3c3c280a35f7e258e9cef7607db5a2e56fdc - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:51:22 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextBackmerging to bring in 6.19-rc1. An important upstream bugfix andto help unblock PTL CI.Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

b8304863a3990d0f18c38e5b94191830a63ee1af - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:24:02 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextSync-up some display code needed for Async flips refactor.Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

7f790dd21a931c61167f7bdc327aecf2cebad327 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:27:39 +0100

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextLet's kickstart the v6.20 (7.0?) release cycle.Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

a4a508df2aa34f8650afde54ea804321c618f45f - Merge tag 'v6.18' into next

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:18:20 +0100

Merge tag 'v6.18' into nextSync up with the mainline to bring in the latest APIs. List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

24f171c7e145f43b9f187578e89b0982ce87e54c - Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:11:11 +0100

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linusASoC: Fixes for v6.19We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though not inany particularly exciting ways - the standout thing is the fix for _SXcontrols which were broken by a change to how we do clamping, otherwiseit's all fairly run of the mill fixes and quirks. List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

84318277d6334c6981ab326d4acc87c6a6ddc9b8 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:53:27 +0100

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixesPull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

cb9f145f638d7afa633632a9290d6ad06caeb8ee - Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclark

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:47:30 +0100

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclarkBack-merge drm-next to get caught up.Signed-off-by: Rob Clark List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

82ee50252dc891e3f3b32d923bb4f656d300b772 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:31:49 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextBackmerging to bring in 6.18-rc1.Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström List of files: /linux/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig