Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: st: fix timer used for ticks

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 15 May 2025 14:12:39 +0100,
Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com> wrote:
> 
> Remove always-on on generic ARM timer as the clock source provided by
> STGEN is deactivated in low power mode, STOP1 by example.
> 
> Fixes: 5d30d03aaf78 ("arm64: dts: st: introduce stm32mp25 SoCs family")
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>
> ---
> 
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp251.dtsi | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp251.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp251.dtsi
> index 8d87865850a7..74c5f85b800f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp251.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/st/stm32mp251.dtsi
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ timer {
>  			     <GIC_PPI 14 (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(1) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)>,
>  			     <GIC_PPI 11 (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(1) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)>,
>  			     <GIC_PPI 10 (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(1) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)>;
> -		always-on;
> +		arm,no-tick-in-suspend;

That's amusing, because these two properties literally describe
opposite behaviours (from an optimisation to a HW bug).

I'm also pretty sure 99% of the DTs in the tree that have the
always-on property are wrong.

>  	};
>  
>  	soc@0 {

I don't want to sound rude or anything, but the guy you Cc'd on an
@arm.com will not reply (and hasn't been replying for almost 6 years).

Thanks,

	M.

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