Re: [PATCH] clocksource: timer-sp804: Fix read_current_timer() issue when clock source is not registered

[Daniel Lezcano]

Hi Krzysztof,

On 07/03/2025 12:17, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 07/03/2025 09:10, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > thanks for the proposed fix
> >
> > On 21/02/2025 04:46, stephen eta zhou wrote:
> > > Hi daniel
> > >
> > > While debugging on the vexpress-v2p-ca9 platform, I discovered that the read_current_timer API wasn't functioning correctly. The issue was that the SP804 driver lacked ARM32 support and did not register read_current_timer. To add ARM32 compatibility, I’ve submitted this patch. Without it, using SP804 as the timer on ARM32 causes issues with boot_init_stack_canary when inserting the canary value into the interrupt stack, and also affects entropy generation and collection, resulting in incorrect rdseed values.
> >
> > It is better to put that information in the changelog and provide a
> > fixed format of the patch description.
> Daniel,
>
> In case you actually consider applying this - some of the patches or
> their descriptions were generated by sort of AI tools, thus approach
> with caution.
>
> It was already pointed out that patches might be a garbage output of AI.
> Also they were not tested, even though what is claimed here "debugging
> on ...".

Oh! Thanks for letting me know that, I appreciate

I'll pay double attention to the patches.

Thanks

  -- Daniel

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