[PATCH v12 4/4] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Fu Wei]

Hi Timur,

On 27 February 2016 at 03:27, Timur Tabi <timur at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> fu.wei at linaro.org wrote:
>>
>> +       if (action) {
>> +               irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>> +               if (irq < 0) {
>> +                       action = 0;
>> +                       dev_warn(dev, "unable to get ws0 interrupt.\n");
>> +               } else {
>> +                       if (devm_request_irq(dev, irq,
>> sbsa_gwdt_interrupt, 0,
>> +                                            pdev->name, gwdt)) {
>> +                               action = 0;
>> +                               dev_warn(dev, "unable to request IRQ
>> %d.\n",
>> +                                        irq);
>> +                       }
>> +               }
>> +               if (!action)
>> +                       dev_warn(dev, "falling back to signle stage
>> mode.\n");
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * Get the frequency of system counter from the cp15 interface of
>> ARM
>> +        * Generic timer. We don't need to check it, because if it returns
>> "0",
>> +        * system would panic in very early stage.
>> +        */
>> +       gwdt->clk = arch_timer_get_cntfrq();
>> +       gwdt->refresh_base = rf_base;
>> +       gwdt->control_base = cf_base;
>
>
> I think you need to ping the watchdog before enabling the interrupt, in case
> there is a pending interrupt.  This just happened to me in testing, so I
> recommend this:
>
>>         /*
>>          * Get the frequency of system counter from the cp15 interface of
>> ARM
>>          * Generic timer. We don't need to check it, because if it returns
>> "0",
>>          * system would panic in very early stage.
>>          */
>>         gwdt->clk = arch_timer_get_cntfrq();
>>         gwdt->refresh_base = rf_base;
>>         gwdt->control_base = cf_base;
>>
>>         if (action) {
>>                 irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>>                 if (irq < 0) {
>>                         action = 0;
>>                         dev_warn(dev, "unable to get ws0 interrupt.\n");
>>                 } else {
>>                         sbsa_gwdt_keepalive(&gwdt->wdd);
>>                         if (devm_request_irq(dev, irq,
>> sbsa_gwdt_interrupt, 0,
>>                                              pdev->name, gwdt)) {
>>                                 action = 0;
>>                                 dev_warn(dev, "unable to request IRQ
>> %d.\n",
>>                                          irq);
>>                         }
>>                 }
>>                 if (!action)
>>                         dev_warn(dev, "falling back to single stage
>> mode.\n");
>>         }
>
>
> In fact, I think you need to move the "if (action) {" block near the end of
> sbsa_gwdt_probe().  We don't want to enable the interrupt until the watchdog
> is fully initialized.
>

Good point! Thanks for your testing :-)

Will post v14 for this change.

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