Re: [v2][PATCH] watchdog: core: stop watchdog when executing poweroff command

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Aug 14 2023 - 09:53:02 EST


On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:06:16PM +0800, Meng Li wrote:
> From: Meng Li <meng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On some platforms, for example, Intel SoC FPGA platform, the watchdog
> is started in u-boot, and so kernel will create a timer and work to
> keep watchdog alive. But when user executes commands "poweroff" or
> "shutdown -h", the system is reset when watchdog triggers timeout even
> if WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT is set in watchdog driver. The root cause is
> that the watchdog is not stopped properly because the SYS_POWER_OFF case
> is not supported in notify callback function. So, add this case to stop
> watchdog when executing poweroff command.
>
> Signed-off-by: Meng Li <Meng.Li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Guenter

> ---
>
> v2:
> - fix typos in commit log
>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
> index d4c5a736fdcb..5b55ccae06d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int watchdog_reboot_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
> struct watchdog_device *wdd;
>
> wdd = container_of(nb, struct watchdog_device, reboot_nb);
> - if (code == SYS_DOWN || code == SYS_HALT) {
> + if (code == SYS_DOWN || code == SYS_HALT || code == SYS_POWER_OFF) {
> if (watchdog_hw_running(wdd)) {
> int ret;
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>