Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2023-06-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single regression fix for a regression fix: For a long time the tick was aligned to clock MONOTONIC so that the tick event happened at a multiple of nanoseconds per tick starting from clock MONOTONIC = 0. At some point this changed as the refined jiffies clocksource which is used during boot before the TSC or other clocksources becomes usable, was adjusted with a boot offset, so that time 0 is closer to the point where the kernel starts. This broke the assumption in the tick code that when the tick setup happens early on ktime_get() will return a multiple of nanoseconds per tick. As a consequence applications which aligned their periodic execution so that it does not collide with the tick were not longer guaranteed that the tick period starts from time 0. The fix for this regression was to realign the tick when it is initially set up to a multiple of tick periods. That works as long as the underlying tick device supports periodic mode, but breaks under certain conditions when the tick device supports only one shot mode. Depending on the offset, the alignment delta to clock MONOTONIC can get in a range where the minimal programming delta of the underlying clock event device is larger than the calculated delta to the next tick. This results in a boot hang as the tick code tries to play catch up, but as the tick never fires jiffies are not advanced so it keeps trying for ever. Solve this by moving the tick alignement into the NOHZ / HIGHRES enablement code because at that point it is guaranteed that the underlying clocksource is high resolution capable and not longer depending on the tick. This is far before user space starts, so at the point where applications try to align their timers, the old behaviour of the tick happening at a multiple of nanoseconds per tick starting from clock MONOTONIC = 0 is restored" * tag 'timers-urgent-2023-06-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tick/common: Align tick period during sched_timer setup
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