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SubjectRe: [PATCH] watchdog: booke_wdt: Disable the watchdog prior to setting a new timeout value in order to avoid the following situation
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:51:46AM +0800, Xiaofeng Wei wrote:
> A watchdog timer exception also occurs if the selected time base bit transitions from 0 to 1 due
> to an mtspr that writes a 1 to the bit when its previous value was 0.
>
Please drop "in order to ..." from the subject line. Every patch hopefully does
that.

> Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Wei <xiaofeng.wei@nxp.com>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c
> index 3ad1e44..70e742c 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/booke_wdt.c
> @@ -186,9 +186,15 @@ static int booke_wdt_stop(struct watchdog_device *wdog)
> static int booke_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdt_dev,
> unsigned int timeout)
> {
> + if (watchdog_active(wdt_dev))
> + on_each_cpu(__booke_wdt_disable, NULL, 0);
> +

Thios would only be necessary if the timeout actually changes. Also, does
the problem apply to _all_ chips supported by this driver or only to a
subset ?

Guenter

> wdt_dev->timeout = timeout;
> booke_wdt_set(wdt_dev);
>
> + if (watchdog_active(wdt_dev))
> + on_each_cpu(__booke_wdt_enable, wdt_dev, 0);
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.9.3
>

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