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Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for NTP/timekeeping and PTP:
- Expand timekeeping snapshot mechanisms
The various snapshot functions are mostly used for PTP to collect
"atomic" snapshots of various involved clocks.
They lack support for the recently introduced AUX clocks and do not
provide the underlying counter value (e.g. TSC) to user space.
Exposing the counter value snapshot allows for better control and
steering.
Convert the hard wired ktime_get_snapshot() to take a clock ID,
which allows the caller to select the clock ID to be captured along
with CLOCK_MONONOTONIC_RAW. Additionally capture the underlying
hardware counter value and the clock source ID of the counter.
Expand the hardware based snapshot capture where devices provide a
mechanism to snapshot the hardware PTP clock and the system counter
(usually via PCI/PTM) to support AUX clocks and also provide the
captured counter value back to the caller and not only the clock
timestamps derived from it.
- Add a new optional read_snapshot() callback to clocksources
That is required to capture atomic snapshots from clocksources
which are derived from TSC with a scaling mechanism (e.g. Hyper-V,
KVMclock).
The value pair is handed back in the snapshot structure to the
callers, so they can do the necessary correlations in a more
precise way.
This touches usage sites of the affected functions and data structure
all over the tree, but stays fully backwards compatible for the
existing user space exposed interfaces. New PTP IOCTLs will provide
access to the extended functionality in later kernel versions"
* tag 'timers-ptp-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
ptp: vmclock: Use hw_cycles from snapshot for precise TSC pairing
x86/kvmclock: Implement read_snapshot() for kvmclock clocksource
clocksource/hyperv: Implement read_snapshot() for TSC page clocksource
timekeeping: Add clocksource read_snapshot() method and hw_cycles to snapshot
ptp: Switch to ktime_get_snapshot_id() for pre/post timestamps
timekeeping: Add support for AUX clock cross timestamping
timekeeping: Remove system_device_crosststamp::sys_realtime
ALSA: hda/common: Use system_device_crosststamp::sys_systime
wifi: iwlwifi: Use system_device_crosststamp::sys_systime
ptp: Use system_device_crosststamp::sys_systime
timekeeping: Prepare for cross timestamps on arbitrary clock IDs
timekeeping: Remove ktime_get_snapshot()
virtio_rtc: Use provided clock ID for history snapshot
net/mlx5: Use provided clock ID for history snapshot
igc: Use provided clock ID for history snapshot
ice/ptp: Use provided clock ID for history snapshot
wifi: iwlwifi: Adopt PTP cross timestamps to core changes
timekeeping: Add CLOCK ID to system_device_crosststamp
timekeeping: Add system_counterval_t to struct system_device_crosststamp
timekeeping: Add CLOCK_AUX support for ktime_get_snapshot_id()
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