at91sam9: watchdog: period

Jiří Prchal jiri.prchal at aksignal.cz
Tue Oct 6 06:07:23 PDT 2015


Again hi to all,
is something new about watchdog period?  I just tried kernel 4.3-rc3 with same result. There must be some hw error seems 
to me.

On 15.5.2015 09:16, Jiří Prchal wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to discover what's wrong with watchdog on my board. I didn't find anything about it on internet so I would
> ask you for help.
> I have a board with sam9g25 and slow clock xtal 32768Hz with 10p capacitors to GND. Frequency seems to be good since
> hwclock (RTC) runs pretty precisely powered from backup and main power too (no NTP). But watchdog time to reset is still
> 61s regardless default (16s) or 4s heartbeat setting. No change to WDT_MR in bootstrap, so in Linux should work.
> Here is dump:
> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> [    0.000000] Linux version 4.0.2_cpm9g25 (prchal at prchal) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-12ubuntu1) ) #10
> PREEMPT Thu May 14 15:20:24 CEST 2015
> [    0.000000] CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=0005317f
> [    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> [    0.000000] Machine model: AKsignal CDU9G25_v6
> [    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
> [    0.000000] AT91: Detected soc type: at91sam9x5
> [    0.000000] AT91: Detected soc subtype: at91sam9g25
> ...
> [    4.669669] AT91: Starting after watchdog reset
> [    4.675675] at91sam9_wdt: enabled (heartbeat=4 sec, nowayout=1)
> ...
>
> / # killall watchdog
> [ 1821.114114] watchdog watchdog0: nowayout prevents watchdog being stopped!
> / # [ 1821.123123] watchdog watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
> [ 1882.294294] at91sam9_wdt: I will reset your machine !
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Jiri



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list