Merge tag 'x86-timers-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 timers update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single update for the TSC synchronixation sanity checks:

  The sad state of TSC being notoriously non-sychronized for several
  decades caused the kernel to grow quite rigorous sanity checks to
  detect whether the TSC is valid to be used for timekeeping.

  The TSC ADJUST MSR provides the offset between the initial TSC value
  after hardware reset and later modifications. This allows to detect
  cases where firmware tampers with the TSC and also allows to correct
  the firmware induced damage by resetting the offset in a controlled
  way.

  The universal correct rule is that the TSC ADJUST value has to be
  consistent within all CPUs of a socket.

  The kernel further assumes that the TSC offset should be consistent
  between sockets. That's not really correct as systems with a huge
  number of sockets are not architecurally guaranteed to reset the per
  socket TSC base synchronously.

  In case that the per socket offset is not consistent the kernel resets
  it to the offset of the boot CPU and then does a synchronization check
  which corrects for the inter socket delays.

  That works most of the time, but it is suboptimal as the firmware has
  eventually better information about the per socket offset and on sane
  systems that offset should just work in the validation checks"

* tag 'x86-timers-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tsc: Trust initial offset in architectural TSC-adjust MSRs

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