Re: [PATCH] watchdog: make DesignWare watchdog allow users to set bigger timeout value
From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 04:45:15 EST
On 11/21/19 12:07 AM, Wang, Peng 1. (NSB - CN/Hangzhou) wrote:
Actually, this function is used by watchdog_dev.c, the timeout value in wdd is already modified there.
but yes, you are right, decide the actual timeout value here is more reasonable. :)
Please avoid top-posting.
watchdog_dev.c only sets wdd->timeout if there is no driver function
to set it.
Guenter
thanks,
Peng Wang
-----Original Message-----
From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:groeck7@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guenter Roeck
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:41 AM
To: Wang, Peng 1. (NSB - CN/Hangzhou) <peng.1.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: make DesignWare watchdog allow users to set bigger timeout value
On 11/20/19 5:29 PM, Wang, Peng 1. (NSB - CN/Hangzhou) wrote:
Hi Guenter,
Thank you for your time.
- I will remove the unnecessary {}
- wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms is the max timeout value which HW can support, this value is limited according to the input clock, say. It only supports 20 seconds, if users requires to set timeout to be say. 60 seconds, the watchdog device driver 'watchdog_dev.c' checks if wdd->timeout is bigger than wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms, if yes, watchdog_dev.c feeds the watchdog by a worker queue itself to help to feed the watchdog before 60 seconds elapse. Here the issue of dw_wdt.c is that, the original codes update wdd->timeout to the value which HW can support, which means if users requires 60 seconds to be the timeout, then dw_wdt.c updates the timeout value to 20 seconds, this makes the "feeding helper" mechanism in watchdog_dev.c not take effect. That's why I add this check.
Yes, I understand you need a check. What I am saying is that the check is wrong.
You need something like
if (top_s > DW_WDT_MAX_TOP)
wdt->timeout = top_s;
else
wdt->timeout = dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(dw_wdt, top_val);
Guenter
Thanks,
Peng Wang
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Roeck
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: make DesignWare watchdog allow users to
set bigger timeout value
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:07:57AM +0000, Wang, Peng 1. (NSB - CN/Hangzhou) wrote:
From 1d051b7c081083751dc0bab97d3ab9efbba0f4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
2001
From: Peng Wang <peng.1.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:12:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: make DesignWare watchdog allow users to
set bigger timeout value
watchdog_dev.c provides means to allow users to set bigger timeout
value than HW can support, make DesignWare watchdog align with this.
Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <peng.1.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
index fef7c61..8911e5e 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
@@ -113,8 +113,15 @@ static int dw_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int top_s)
*/
writel(top_val | top_val << WDOG_TIMEOUT_RANGE_TOPINIT_SHIFT,
dw_wdt->regs + WDOG_TIMEOUT_RANGE_REG_OFFSET);
-
- wdd->timeout = dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(dw_wdt, top_val);
+
+ /*
+ * In case users set bigger timeout value than HW can support,
+ * kernel(watchdog_dev.c) helps to feed watchdog before
+ * wdd->timeout
+ */
+ if ( wdd->timeout * 1000 <= wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms ) {
+ wdd->timeout = dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(dw_wdt, top_val);
+ }
{ } is unnecessary here. Also, the above code compares the _old_ timeout againt the maximum supported timeout, which doesn't look correct.
Thanks,
Guenter
return 0;
}
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