[PATCH v1] watchdog: sama5d4_wdt: Reset delay on start

Romain Izard romain.izard.pro at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 02:29:39 PST 2016


If the internal counter is not refreshed when the watchdog is started
for the first time, the watchdog will trigger very rapidly. For example,
opening /dev/watchdog without writing in it will immediately trigger a
reboot, instead of waiting for the delay to expire.

To avoid this problem, reload the timer on opening the watchdog device.

Command: "while sleep 5; do echo 1; done > /dev/watchdog"
Before: system reset
After: the watchdog runs correctly

Signed-off-by: Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c
index a49634cdc1cc..e162fe140ae1 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/watchdog.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include "at91sam9_wdt.h"
 
@@ -58,6 +59,8 @@ static int sama5d4_wdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 	reg = wdt_read(wdt, AT91_WDT_MR);
 	reg &= ~AT91_WDT_WDDIS;
 	wdt_write(wdt, AT91_WDT_MR, reg);
+	udelay(125); /* > 4 cycles at 32,768 Hz */
+	wdt_write(wdt, AT91_WDT_CR, AT91_WDT_KEY | AT91_WDT_WDRSTT);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.5.0




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