Re: [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: qcom: Register pretimeout interrupt as NMI

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 7/30/26 11:32 PM, Mayank Rungta via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Mayank Rungta <mrungta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When a system is completely unresponsive due to an interrupt storm or
> deadlocked CPU cores with standard interrupts disabled, a standard watchdog
> pretimeout bark interrupt will fail to execute, preventing the pretimeout
> governor from capturing CPU backtraces before the hardware reset bite.

[...]

>  drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> index 49bd04841f0c..19d8e91cff40 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ struct qcom_wdt {
>  	unsigned long		rate;
>  	void __iomem		*base;
>  	const u32		*layout;
> +	int			irq;
> +	bool			is_nmi;
> +	bool			irq_enabled;

Do we need to track this? I think we can rely on the framework
NOPing out multiple ops->start requests

Konrad