Re: [PATCH] watchdog: omap_wdt: Add 'early_disable' module parameter

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 12:09:36 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:07:37PM +0200, Rostislav Lisovy wrote:
> This parameter makes it possible to control if the watchdog
> is being disabled during initialization or will stay enabled
> in case it was previously initialized in the bootloader.
>
> To maintain the existing behavior, the default value is 'true',
> thus the watchdog is disabled during initialization.
>
> This new feature is highly inspired by the w83627hf_wdt.c
>
> Signed-off-by: Rostislav Lisovy <lisovy@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c
> index 3691b15..8f4cabe 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ static unsigned timer_margin;
> module_param(timer_margin, uint, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(timer_margin, "initial watchdog timeout (in seconds)");
>
> +static bool early_disable = true;
> +module_param(early_disable, bool, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(early_disable, "Disable watchdog at boot time (default=1)");
> +


> struct omap_wdt_dev {
> void __iomem *base; /* physical */
> struct device *dev;
> @@ -255,7 +259,15 @@ static int omap_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> omap_wdt->bootstatus = (rs & (1 << OMAP_MPU_WD_RST_SRC_ID_SHIFT)) ?
> WDIOF_CARDRESET : 0;
>
> - omap_wdt_disable(wdev);
> + if (early_disable) {
> + pr_warn("Stopping previously enabled watchdog until userland kicks in\n");

This is an unconditional message which will be displayed even if the watchdog
was not running at all. Since there was previously no message, why add a
confusing one now ?

> + omap_wdt_disable(wdev);
> + } else {
> + pr_info("Watchdog already running. Resetting timeout to %d sec\n",
> + omap_wdt->timeout);
> + omap_wdt_set_timeout(omap_wdt, omap_wdt->timeout);
> + omap_wdt_ping(omap_wdt);
> + }
>
> ret = watchdog_register_device(omap_wdt);
> if (ret) {
> @@ -267,7 +279,8 @@ static int omap_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> readl_relaxed(wdev->base + OMAP_WATCHDOG_REV) & 0xFF,
> omap_wdt->timeout);
>
> - pm_runtime_put_sync(wdev->dev);
> + if (early_disable)
> + pm_runtime_put_sync(wdev->dev);

Doesn't that mean that you are now leaking the device usage counter
if early_disable is 0 ?

Guenter
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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