Re: [PATCH 1/9] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Make watchdog bark interrupt edge triggered

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Douglas Anderson (2023-11-03 16:34:27)
> On sc7180 when the watchdog timer fires your logs get filled with:
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>   ...
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>
> If you're using console-ramoops to debug crashes the above gets quite
> annoying since it blows away any other log messages that might have
> been there.
>
> The issue is that the "bark" interrupt (AKA the "pretimeout"
> interrupt) remains high until the watchdog is pet. Since we've got
> things configured as "level" triggered we'll keep getting interrupted
> over and over.
>
> Let's switch to edge triggered. Now we'll get one interrupt when the
> "bark" interrupt goes off we'll get one interrupt and won't get

"We'll get one" twice?

> another one until the "bark" interrupt is cleared and asserts again.
>
> This matches how many older Qualcomm SoCs have things configured.
>
> Fixes: 28cc13e4060c ("arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Add watchdog bark interrupt")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>