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Vincent Chen
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When registering the riscv-timer or clint-timer as a clock_event device, the driver needs to specify the value of max_delta_ticks. This value directly influences the max_delta_ns, which represents the maximum time interval for configuring subsequent clock events. Currently, both riscv-timer and clint-timer are set with a max_delta_ticks value of 0x7fff_ffff. When the timer operates at a high frequency, this values limists the system to sleep only for a short time. For the 1GHz case, the sleep cannot exceed two seconds. To address this limitation, refer to other timer implementations to extend it to 2^(bit-width of the timer) - 1. Because the bit-width of $mtimecmp is 64bit, this value becomes ULONG_MAX (0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff). Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230905070945.404653-1-vincent.chen@sifive.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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