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

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option
  is default off, well tested and non dangerous."

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
  clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support
  clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver
  clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
  tick: Add tick skew boot option
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Linus Torvalds 2012-06-04 11:25:31 -07:00
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sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
Format: { "0" | "1" }
0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
1 -- enable.
Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
security module asking for security registration will be