Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

Pull timer and timekeeping core updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Fix a subtly inconsistency in the timekeeping code, which fails to
   account for the monotonicity adjustment in ntp_error.

   For small changes of the clocksource multiplicator (+/-1) which are
   typically used by the NTP PLL this is hard to observe. But for larger
   adjustments, e.g. caused by a direct frequency setting through
   adjtimex() the one-time uncompensated offset is significant.

   Cure this by adjusting ntp_error with the resulting offset so that
   the discrepancy is smoothed away over time

 - Make tick length calculations correct in NTP.

   The timekeeping core takes the quantisation of the clocksource into
   account when calculating the tick length to compensate for the
   deviation of the nominal NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH.

   While timekeeping gets this right, NTP is not aware of that, which
   means it operates on the nominal value and not on the actual value
   which is determined by the clock source frequency. The rounding of a
   coarse clocksource like the ACPI PM timer results in a +127 PPM
   deviation.

   Cure this by exposing the deviation to the NTP code so that it can
   operate on the same data as the timekeeping core. This is purely
   kernel internal. User space still sees the nominal tick lenght via
   adjtimex().

 - The accuracy of the NTP adjustments is fairly approximate as the code
   assumes that the invocations are precisely in NTP interval frequency
   ticks and the final adjustment can over and under-run.

   Cure this by adjusting ntp_error by the intended skew on each tick to
   achieve the desired rate.

 - Handle the two competing skews of time offset and time adjustment
   correctly by calculating the conflict portion between the skews and
   adjusting both accordingly.

 - A set of updates and improvements for the selftests

 - The usual small fixes and improvements all over the place

* tag 'timers-core-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
  selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Check all calls to clock_nanosleep() and clock_gettime()
  selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Reuse kselftest error numbers
  selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Explicitly list the tested clocks
  selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Use NSEC_PER_MSEC define for unreasonable latency
  selftests: timers: nanosleep: Report each test separately
  selftests: timers: nanosleep: Explicitly handle timer_delete() failure
  selftests: timers: nanosleep: Move all single clock tests out of the loop in main()
  selftests: timers: nanosleep: Reuse kselftest error numbers
  selftests: timers: nanosleep: Explicitly list the tested clocks
  selftests: timers: nanosleep: Drop output alignment
  selftests: timers: Use clock_name() and constants from clock-helpers.h
  selftests: Add clock-helpers.h
  timer_list: Use ktime_t over nanoseconds
  timer_list: Use standard 'long long' format placeholders
  hrtimer: Add a lockdep assertion to hrtimer_update_base()
  timekeeping: Use u32 for clock_was_set_seq
  timekeeping: Rename clockid_aux_valid() to clockid_is_aux_clock()
  hrtimer: Account nr_retries on recovered interrupt retries
  timers/itimer: Zero-init old itimerval before copy to userspace
  nohz: Replace dead select with choice default
  ...

diff --cc MAINTAINERS
Simple merge

diff --cc arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
Simple merge

diff --cc init/Kconfig
Simple merge

diff --cc kernel/sched/fair.c
Simple merge

diff --cc kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
Simple merge