[PATCH v5 00/26] Fix watchdog on Renesas R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1

[Simon Horman]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 01:51:28PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Fabrizio Castro
> <fabrizio.castro at bp.renesas.com> wrote:
> > this series has been around for some time as RFC, and it has collected
> > useful comments from the community along the way.
> > The solution proposed by this patch set works for most R-Car Gen2 and
> > RZ/G1 devices, but not all of them. We now know that for some R-Car
> > Gen2 early revisions there is no proper software fix. Anyway, no
> > product has been built around early revisions, but development boards
> > mounting early revisions (basically prototypes) are still out there.
> > As a result, this series isn't enabling the internal watchdog on R-Car
> > Gen2 boards, developers may enable it in board specific device trees
> > if needed.
> > This series has been tested by me on the iwg20d, iwg22d, Lager, Alt,
> > and Koelsch boards.
> >
> > The problem
> > ===========
> > To deal with SMP on R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1, we install a reset vector
> > to ICRAM1 and we program the [S]BAR registers so that when we turn ON
> > the non-boot CPUs they are redirected to the reset vector installed by
> > Linux in ICRAM1, and eventually they continue the execution to RAM,
> > where the SMP bring-up code will take care of the rest.
> > The content of the [S]BAR registers survives a watchdog triggered reset,
> > and as such after the watchdog fires the boot core will try and execute
> > the SMP bring-up code instead of jumping to the bootrom code.
> >
> > The fix
> > =======
> > The main strategy for the solution is to let the reset vector decide
> > if it needs to jump to shmobile_boot_fn or to the bootrom code.
> > In a watchdog triggered reset scenario, since the [S]BAR registers keep
> > their values, the boot CPU will jump into the newly designed reset
> > vector, the assembly routine will eventually test WOVF (a bit in register
> > RWTCSRA that indicates if the watchdog counter has overflown, the value
> > of this bit gets retained in this scenario), and jump to the bootrom code
> > which will in turn load up the bootloader, etc.
> > When bringing up SMP or using CPU hotplug, the reset vector will jump
> > to shmobile_boot_fn instead.
> >
> > Thank you All for your help.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Fabrizio Castro (26):
> >   ARM: shmobile: Add watchdog support
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7743: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7745: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7790: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7791: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7792: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7793: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7794: Adjust SMP routine size
> >   soc: renesas: rcar-rst: Enable watchdog as reset trigger for Gen2
> >   ARM: shmobile: rcar-gen2: Add watchdog support
> >   dt-bindings: watchdog: renesas-wdt: Add R-Car Gen2 support
> >   watchdog: renesas_wdt: Add R-Car Gen2 support
> >   watchdog: renesas_wdt: Add restart handler
> >   ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Enable RENESAS_WDT_GEN
> >   clk: renesas: r8a7743: Add rwdt clock
> >   clk: renesas: r8a7745: Add rwdt clock
> >   clk: renesas: r8a7790: Add rwdt clock
> >   clk: renesas: r8a7791/r8a7793: Add rwdt clock
> >   clk: renesas: r8a7794: Add rwdt clock
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7743: Add watchdog support to SoC dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7745: Add watchdog support to SoC dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7790: Add watchdog support to SoC dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7791: Add watchdog support to SoC dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: r8a7794: Add watchdog support to SoC dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: iwg20m: Add watchdog support to SoM dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: iwg22m: Add watchdog support to SoM dtsi
> >
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/renesas-wdt.txt   | 19 ++++++--
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7743-iwg20m.dtsi              |  5 ++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7743.dtsi                     | 12 ++++-
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7745-iwg22m.dtsi              |  5 ++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7745.dtsi                     | 12 ++++-
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7790.dtsi                     | 12 ++++-
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7791.dtsi                     | 12 ++++-
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7792.dtsi                     |  2 +-
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7793.dtsi                     |  2 +-
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7794.dtsi                     | 12 ++++-
> >  arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig                |  1 +
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/common.h                    |  6 +++
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/headsmp.S                   | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/platsmp-apmu.c              |  1 +
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/pm-rcar-gen2.c              | 15 ++++--
> >  drivers/clk/renesas/r8a7743-cpg-mssr.c             |  2 +
> >  drivers/clk/renesas/r8a7745-cpg-mssr.c             |  2 +
> >  drivers/clk/renesas/r8a7790-cpg-mssr.c             |  2 +
> >  drivers/clk/renesas/r8a7791-cpg-mssr.c             |  2 +
> >  drivers/clk/renesas/r8a7794-cpg-mssr.c             |  2 +
> >  drivers/soc/renesas/rcar-rst.c                     | 35 +++++++++++---
> >  drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c                     | 39 +++++++++++++--
> 
> Thanks, I've queued the clock patches in clk-renesas-for-v4.17, as they are
> a hard dependency for:
>   (1) The new reset vector in arch/arm/mach-shmobile/
>   (2) The watchdog driver.
> 
> Note that the watchdog driver itself (2) has a hard dependency on the
> new reset vector (1).

Thanks, I have marked the watchdog driver patch as Deferred.
Please resubmit or otherwise ping me once they dependencies
are in an rc release.