Re: [PATCH 4.4 70/97] rtc: ds1374: wdt: Fix issue with timeout scaling from secs to wdt ticks

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 10:54 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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> From: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> [ Upstream commit 453d0744f6c6ca3f9749b8c57c2e85b5b9f52514 ]
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> The issue is that the internal counter that triggers the watchdog reset
> is actually running at 4096 Hz instead of 1Hz, therefore the value
> given by userland (in sec) needs to be multiplied by 4096 to get the
> correct behavior.
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The wdt_margin module parameter has the same problem.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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