Re: [PATCH 2/8] watchdog: s3c2410: Fix infinite interrupt in soft mode

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 23:09:51 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> In soft (no-reboot) mode, the driver self-pings watchdog upon expiration
> of an interrupt. However the interrupt itself was not cleared thus on
> first hit, the system enters infinite interrupt handling loop.
>
> On Odroid U3 (Exynos4412), when booted with s3c2410_wdt.soft_noboot=1
> argument the console is flooded:
> # killall -9 watchdog
> [ 60.523760] s3c2410-wdt 10060000.watchdog: watchdog timer expired (irq)
> [ 60.536744] s3c2410-wdt 10060000.watchdog: watchdog timer expired (irq)
>
> Fix this by writing something to the WTCLRINT register to clear the
> interrupt. The register WTCLRINT however appeared in S3C6410 so a new
> watchdog quirk and flavor are needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> I was thinking about CC-ing stable, especially when I thought about
> adding unconditional WTCLRINT clear. However it appears that S3C2410
> does not have the WTCLRINT register, this a new chip flavor has to be
> added. This makes the fix spread over driver and DTS changes.
>
> Worth adding:
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> ?
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/samsung-wdt.txt | 9 +++++----

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

> drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)