Re: [PATCH] watchdog: qcom: Start the watchdog in probe

[Guenter Roeck]

On 1/30/24 20:15, Pavankumar Kondeti wrote:
> When CONFIG_WATCHDOG_HANDLE_BOOT_ENABLED is enabled, kernel can pet the
> watchdog until user space takes over. Make use of this feature and
> start the watchdog in probe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> index 9e790f0c2096..4fb5dbf5faee 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> @@ -276,12 +276,16 @@ static int qcom_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	watchdog_init_timeout(&wdt->wdd, 0, dev);
>   
>   	/*
> +	 * Kernel can pet the watchdog until user space takes over.
> +	 * Start the watchdog here to make use of this feature.
> +	 

No, that is not what CONFIG_WATCHDOG_HANDLE_BOOT_ENABLED is about.
Please see its description.

NACK.

Guenter

>   	 * If WDT is already running, call WDT start which
>   	 * will stop the WDT, set timeouts as bootloader
>   	 * might use different ones and set running bit
>   	 * to inform the WDT subsystem to ping the WDT

>   	 */
> -	if (qcom_wdt_is_running(&wdt->wdd)) {
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_WATCHDOG_HANDLE_BOOT_ENABLED) ||
> +	    qcom_wdt_is_running(&wdt->wdd)) {
>   		qcom_wdt_start(&wdt->wdd);
>   		set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdt->wdd.status);
>   	}
>
> ---
> base-commit: 41bccc98fb7931d63d03f326a746ac4d429c1dd3
> change-id: 20240131-qcom-wdt-start-probe-b8e0560aef7d
>
> Best regards,