[PATCH V3 2/4] ARM: smp_twd: mpcore_wdt: Fix watchdog counter loading
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Jul 7 08:44:19 EDT 2011
On Thursday 07 July 2011, Vitaly Kuzmichev wrote:
> Although the commit "98af057092f8f0dabe63c5df08adc2bbfbddb1d2
> ARM: 6126/1: ARM mpcore_wdt: fix build failure and other fixes"
> resolved long standing mpcore_wdt driver build problems, it
> introduced an error in the relationship between the MPcore watchdog
> timer clock rate and mpcore_margin, "MPcore timer margin in seconds",
> such that watchdog timeouts are now arbitrary rather than the number
> of seconds specified by mpcore_margin.
>
> This change restores mpcore_wdt_keepalive() to its equivalent
> implementation prior to commit 98af057 such that watchdog timeouts now
> occur as specified by mpcore_margin.
>
> The variable 'mpcore_timer_rate' which caused that build failure was
> replaced by 'twd_timer_rate'. Adding exported function to obtain
> 'twd_timer_rate' value in mpcore_wdt driver.
>
> MPCORE_WATCHDOG needed to build 'mpcore_wdt' already depends on
> HAVE_ARM_TWD needed to build 'smp_twd', so from the point of view of
> 'mpcore_wdt' driver the exported function will always exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at mvista.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuzmichev <vkuzmichev at mvista.com>
Looks good now,
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
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