Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: dts: qcom: hamoa: Add the APSS watchdog

From: Konrad Dybcio

Date: Fri Dec 19 2025 - 07:15:05 EST


On 12/19/25 11:00 AM, Abel Vesa wrote:
> The watchdog support in EL1 is SBSA compliant, handled by Gunyah
> hypervisor, but in EL2. the watchdog is an instance of the APSS WDT HW
> block, same as older platforms. So describe the APSS WDT node and mark
> it as reserved, as it will only be enabled in EL2 overlay.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/hamoa.dtsi | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/hamoa.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/hamoa.dtsi
> index a17900eacb20..b65dfad71c2f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/hamoa.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/hamoa.dtsi
> @@ -8302,6 +8302,14 @@ gic_its: msi-controller@17040000 {
> };
> };
>
> + apss_watchdog: watchdog@17410000 {
> + compatible = "qcom,apss-wdt-x1e80100", "qcom,kpss-wdt";
> + reg = <0x0 0x17410000 0x0 0x1000>;
> + clocks = <&sleep_clk>;
> + interrupts = <GIC_SPI 0 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>;
> + status = "reserved"; /* Accessible in EL2 only */

This is technically incorrect - it's not accessible if Gunyah is
present, which is only somewhat related - if you run a different
hypervisor which doesn't explicitly block access to this region, you
can still access it even though Linux may be running at EL1

Konrad