Re: [PATCH v3] platform/x86:intel/pmc: Enable the ACPI PM Timer to be turned off when suspended

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jul 31 2024 - 17:46:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 31 2024 at 23:41, Marek Maślanka wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 6:33 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 31 2024 at 16:44, Marek Maślanka wrote:
>> > Thanks. I'll try do this in that way. But I need to disable/enable
>> > ACPI PM timer only on suspend/resume, so I'll use suspend/resume
>> > callbacks.
>>
>> Why? What's the point of keeping it running when nothing uses it?
>>
> In case of Intel CPUs the watchdog (iTCO/wdat_wdt) is driven by ACPI PM
> Timer. But it may also be used by others that I don't know about, so I don't
> want to disable it.

Fair enough.