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

Author: torvalds

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -2543,6 +2543,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	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

arch/arm/mach-shmobile/Kconfig

@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ config SH_TIMER_TMU
 	help
 	  This enables build of the TMU timer driver.
 
+config EM_TIMER_STI
+	bool "STI timer driver"
+	default y
+	help
+	  This enables build of the STI timer driver.
+
 endmenu
 
 config SH_CLK_CPG

drivers/clocksource/Makefile

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CS5535_CLOCK_EVENT_SRC)	+= cs5535-clockevt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SH_TIMER_CMT)	+= sh_cmt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SH_TIMER_MTU2)	+= sh_mtu2.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SH_TIMER_TMU)	+= sh_tmu.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_EM_TIMER_STI)	+= em_sti.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CLKBLD_I8253)	+= i8253.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CLKSRC_MMIO)	+= mmio.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DW_APB_TIMER)	+= dw_apb_timer.o