[PATCH v4 0/7] watchdog: qcom: Support NMI pretimeout warnings

[Mayank Rungta]

On ARM64 Qualcomm SoCs, when a system freezes completely due to hard
locked CPUs with standard interrupts disabled, a standard watchdog
pretimeout warning interrupt (bark) fails to fire. To diagnose total
system lockups, we need to transition the Qualcomm hardware watchdog
pretimeout bark interrupt into an NMI (or pseudo-NMI).

Enabling NMI pretimeout handlers within a loadable driver module requires
addressing NMI teardown synchronization, allowing global interrupts in
request_nmi(), exporting NMI registration APIs, and ensuring watchdog
pretimeout governor dispatch is NMI-safe.

This 7-patch series achieves NMI pretimeout enablement for qcom-wdt:
 1) Synchronizes in-flight NMI handlers during disable and teardown via
    an atomic counter on struct irq_desc and unlazy hardware masking.
 2) Allows global interrupts in request_nmi() and updates /proc/interrupts
    to display per-CPU counts for all NMIs.
 3) Implements synchronous disable_nmi().
 4) Exports request_nmi(), free_nmi(), enable_nmi(), and disable_nmi()
    to the qcom-wdt module using EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().
 5) Replaces spinlocks in watchdog_notify_pretimeout() with RCU to
    guarantee safe governor execution from NMI context.
 6) Updates the panic pretimeout governor (pretimeout_panic) to call
    nmi_panic() when invoked from NMI context.
 7) Updates qcom-wdt to request its pretimeout bark interrupt as an
    NMI (or pseudo-NMI) with fallback to standard IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Mayank Rungta <mrungta@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v4:
- Replaced hardware-only NMI synchronization with a lockless software counter
  (desc->nmi_active) and unlazy hardware masking via __synchronize_nmi()
  (Patches 1 & 3) (Thomas Gleixner, Marc Zyngier, Douglas Anderson).
- Allowed global interrupts in request_nmi() by dropping the mandatory
  IRQF_PERCPU check and updating /proc/interrupts for NMIs (Patches 2 & 7)
  (Thomas Gleixner, Marc Zyngier).
- Switched NMI symbol exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(..., "qcom-wdt")
  (Patch 4) (Thomas Gleixner).
- Added Patch 6 to invoke nmi_panic() from pretimeout_panic() when in_nmi()
  is true.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260902-qcom-wdt-nmi-series-v3-0-f3999362a9ea@xxxxxxxxxx
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260828-qcom-wdt-nmi-series-v2-0-363979fe6b6b@xxxxxxxxxx
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260730-qcom-wdt-nmi-series-v1-0-3aa86d162914@xxxxxxxxxx

Testing & Verification:
- Tested on ARM64 Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC (Google CoachZ) with GICv3
  pseudo-NMI enabled: verified NMI pretimeout bark delivery, /proc/interrupts
  accounting, runtime sysfs governor switching (noop/panic), nmi_panic()
  execution, and driver unbind/rebind teardown.

Mayank Rungta (7):
  genirq: Synchronize in-flight handlers during NMI teardown
  genirq: Allow global interrupts in request_nmi()
  genirq: Implement synchronous disable_nmi()
  genirq: Export NMI APIs for qcom-wdt
  watchdog: pretimeout: Protect governor access with RCU for NMI safety
  watchdog: pretimeout_panic: Use nmi_panic() when invoked from NMI
    context
  watchdog: qcom: Register pretimeout interrupt as NMI

 drivers/watchdog/pretimeout_panic.c    |   8 +-
 drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c            |  30 ++++-
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_pretimeout.c |  45 ++++----
 include/linux/interrupt.h              |   1 +
 include/linux/irqdesc.h                |   4 +
 include/linux/watchdog.h               |   2 +-
 kernel/irq/chip.c                      |  35 ++++--
 kernel/irq/manage.c                    | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 kernel/irq/proc.c                      |   6 +-
 kernel/irq/settings.h                  |   5 +
 10 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)


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