[PATCH v2] watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Only register for cpufreq on ARM_S3C24XX_CPUFREQ
Tomasz Figa
tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 19:03:49 EST 2013
On Monday 25 of November 2013 15:36:43 Doug Anderson wrote:
> On modern SoCs the watchdog timer is parented on a clock that doesn't
> change every time we have a cpufreq change. That means we don't need
> to constantly adjust the watchdog timer, so avoid registering for and
> dealing with cpufreq transitions unless we've actually got
> CONFIG_ARM_S3C24XX_CPUFREQ defined.
>
> Note that this is more than just an optimization. The s3c2410
> watchdog driver actually pats the watchdog on every CPU frequency
> change. On modern systems these happen many times per second (even in
> a system where "nothing" is happening). That effectively makes any
> userspace watchdog program useless (the watchdog is constantly patted
> by the kernel). If we need ARM_S3C24XX_CPUFREQ defined on a
> multiplatform kernel we'll need to make sure that kernel supports
> common clock and change this to user common clock framework.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Use the updated config name.
>
> drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
Best regards,
Tomasz
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