On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 07:37:53AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 02/24/2017 07:11 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > In soft (no-reboot) mode, the driver self-pings watchdog upon expiration
> > of an interrupt. However the interrupt itself was not cleared thus on
> > first hit, the system enters infinite interrupt handling loop.
> >
> > On Odroid U3 (Exynos4412), when booted with s3c2410_wdt.soft_noboot=1
> > argument the console is flooded:
> > # killall -9 watchdog
> > [ 60.523760] s3c2410-wdt 10060000.watchdog: watchdog timer expired (irq)
> > [ 60.536744] s3c2410-wdt 10060000.watchdog: watchdog timer expired (irq)
> >
> > Fix this by writing something to the WTCLRINT register to clear the
> > interrupt. The register WTCLRINT however appeared in S3C6410 so a new
> > watchdog quirk and flavor are needed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I was thinking about CC-ing stable, especially when I thought about
> > adding unconditional WTCLRINT clear. However it appears that S3C2410
> > does not have the WTCLRINT register, this a new chip flavor has to be
> > added. This makes the fix spread over driver and DTS changes.
> >
> > Worth adding:
> > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> > ?
>
> How would that be different to Cc: stable ?
I guess not much... except for the metrics that some bug was fixed.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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