Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: dw_wdt: pat the watchdog before enabling it

From: Jisheng Zhang
Date: Mon Jan 26 2015 - 01:25:29 EST


Dear Doug,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:09:28 -0800
Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jisheng,
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear Doug,
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:17:22 -0800
> > Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On some dw_wdt implementations the "top" register may be initted to 0
> >> at bootup. In such a case, each "pat" of the watchdog will reset the
> >> timer to 0xffff. That's pretty short.
> >
> > + Guenter Roeck
> >
> > This should have been fixed by dfa07141e7a792("watchdog: dw_wdt:
> > initialise TOP_INIT in dw_wdt_set_top()")
>
> I will admit that I'm testing on a tree that doesn't have your patch
> (I'm on a 3.14 kernel with lots of backports). ...but I did try
> cherry-picking your patch before I wrote up mine and it didn't fix my
> problem. I believe that the watchdog that's in Rockchip rk3288 must
> be a slightly different version of the IP block than you're working
> with.
>
> Specifically I see the register WDT_TORR that has an offset of 0x4.
> That's the RANGE_REG in your code. It shows bits 3:0 set the timeout
> period (0 = 0xffff and 15 = 0x7fffffff). It shows bits 31:4 as
> "reserved".

Could you please dump registers' value at offset 0xf4 and 0xf8 if you don't mind?

Thanks,
Jisheng

>
>
> > In fact, my original fix is as similar as your patch
> >
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg363658.html
>
> Yup, except that I pat the watchdog before enabling it and you pat it
> after... It probably doesn't matter as long as the two instructions
> are within 2.5ms of each other, but it seems nice to be safer.
>
> -Doug

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