diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
index 8e70f38f1898..a907e71065bd 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
@@ -56,9 +56,16 @@ static int tegra_timer_set_next_event(unsigned long cycles,
 {
 	void __iomem *reg_base = timer_of_base(to_timer_of(evt));
 
-	writel_relaxed(TIMER_PTV_EN |
-		       ((cycles > 1) ? (cycles - 1) : 0), /* n+1 scheme */
-		       reg_base + TIMER_PTV);
+	/*
+	 * Tegra's timer uses n+1 scheme for the counter, i.e. timer will
+	 * fire after one tick if 0 is loaded.
+	 *
+	 * The minimum and maximum numbers of oneshot ticks are defined
+	 * by clockevents_config_and_register(1, 0x1fffffff + 1) invocation
+	 * below in the code. Hence the cycles (ticks) can't be outside of
+	 * a range supportable by hardware.
+	 */
+	writel_relaxed(TIMER_PTV_EN | (cycles - 1), reg_base + TIMER_PTV);
 
 	return 0;
 }