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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