Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:47:10 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] watchdog: booke_wdt: Disable the watchdog prior to setting a new timeout value in order to avoid the following situation |
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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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