Pull core updates (RCU and locking) from Ingo Molnar:
 "Most of the diffstat comes from the RCU slow boot regression fixes,
  but there's also a debuggability improvements/fixes."

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  memblock: Document memblock_is_region_{memory,reserved}()
  rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets
  rcu: Move RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables to rcu_dynticks structure
  rcu: Update RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tracing for lazy callbacks
  rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ detection of callback adoption
  spinlock: Indicate that a lockup is only suspected
  kdump: Execute kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop()
  panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable

Merge RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney:

 " This series has four patches, the major point of which is to eliminate
   some slowdowns (including boot-time slowdowns) resulting from some
   RCU_FAST_NO_HZ changes.  The issue with the changes is that posting timers
   from the idle loop has no effect if the CPU has entered dyntick-idle
   mode because the CPU has already computed its wakeup time, and posting
   a timer does not cause it to be recomputed.  The short-term fix is for
   RCU to precompute the timeout value so that the CPU's calculation is
   correct. "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Pull leap second timer fix from Thomas Gleixner.

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timekeeping: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC inconsistency during leapsecond

When a CPU is entering dyntick-idle mode, tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
calls rcu_needs_cpu() see if RCU needs that CPU, and, if not, computes the
next wakeup time based on the timer wheels.  Only later, when actually
entering the idle loop, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will be invoked.  In some
cases, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will post timers to wake the CPU back up.
But all for naught: The next wakeup time for the CPU has already been
computed, and posting a timer afterwards does not force that wakeup
time to be recomputed.  This means that rcu_prepare_for_idle()'s have
no effect.

This is not a problem on a busy system because something else will wake
up the CPU soon enough.  However, on lightly loaded systems, the CPU
might stay asleep for a considerable length of time.  If that CPU has
a callback that the rest of the system is waiting on, the system might
run very slowly or (in theory) even hang.

This commit avoids this problem by having rcu_needs_cpu() give
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() an estimate of when RCU will need the CPU
to wake back up, which tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() takes into account
when programming the CPU's wakeup time.  An alternative approach is
for rcu_prepare_for_idle() to use hrtimers instead of normal timers,
but timers are much more efficient than are hrtimers for frequently
and repeatedly posting and cancelling a given timer, which is exactly
what RCU_FAST_NO_HZ does.

Reported-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur
  sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names
  sched: Make sched_feat_names const
  sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups
  sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
  sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
  sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
  sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
  sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more
  sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask

Commit 6b43ae8a61 (ntp: Fix leap-second hrtimer livelock) broke the
leapsecond update of CLOCK_MONOTONIC. The missing leapsecond update to
wall_to_monotonic causes discontinuities in CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Adjust wall_to_monotonic when NTP inserted a leapsecond.

Reported-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338400497-12420-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Follow up on commit 556061b00 ("sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[]
calculations") since while that fixed the busy case it regressed the
mostly idle case.

Add a callback from the nohz exit to also age the rq->cpu_load[]
array. This closes the hole where either there was no nohz load
balance pass during the nohz, or there was a 'significant' amount of
idle time between the last nohz balance and the nohz exit.

So we'll update unconditionally from the tick to not insert any
accidental 0 load periods while busy, and we try and catch up from
nohz idle balance and nohz exit. Both these are still prone to missing
a jiffy, but that has always been the case.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kt0trz0apodbf84ucjfdbr1a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

commit 5307c95 (tick: Add tick skew boot option) broke the
!CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS build.

Move the boot option parsing into the CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS section.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>

Make clockevents_config() into a global symbol to allow it to be used
by compiled-in clockevent drivers. This is needed by drivers that want
to update the timer frequency after registration time.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: olof@lixom.net
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120509143934.27521.46553.sendpatchset@w520
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the
more important consideration for their machines.

Quoting removal commit af5ab277ded04bd9bc6b048c5a2f0e7d70ef0867:

"Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
 various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
 xtime_lock.
    
 Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
 since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
 this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
 many-core systems."

Problems:

- Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both
  xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized.
  
- Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick
  being synchronized.

- SGI reports the same for their large systems.

- Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal,
  but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention.

- 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
  This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed
  to have been _induced by_ skew removal.  Skew the tick, contention
  disappeared virtually completely.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>