On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > On 2016-07-15 15:46, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >On 07/15/2016 01:15 AM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > >> > >>+static bool bcm2835_wdt_is_running(struct bcm2835_wdt *wdt) > >>+{ > >>+ uint32_t cur; > >>+ > >>+ cur = readl(wdt->base + PM_RSTC); > >>+ > >>+ return !!(cur & PM_RSTC_WRCFG_FULL_RESET); > >>+} > >>+ > >> static int bcm2835_wdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wdog) > >> { > >> struct bcm2835_wdt *wdt = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdog); > >>@@ -70,6 +79,7 @@ static int bcm2835_wdt_start(struct watchdog_device > >>*wdog) > >> PM_RSTC_WRCFG_FULL_RESET, wdt->base + PM_RSTC); > >> > >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wdt->lock, flags); > >>+ set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdog->status); > >> > >You don't need to set this bit here unless the watchdog can not be stopped. > > > >> return 0; > >> } > >>@@ -79,6 +89,7 @@ static int bcm2835_wdt_stop(struct watchdog_device > >>*wdog) > >> struct bcm2835_wdt *wdt = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdog); > >> > >> writel_relaxed(PM_PASSWORD | PM_RSTC_RESET, wdt->base + PM_RSTC); > >>+ clear_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdog->status); > > > >... and since you clear the bit, it can be stopped. Both setting and > >resetting the bit > >is therefore not necessary. > > Well, if the bit isn't cleared here, but it was set during probe(), the > framework will (re)start this watchdog (and keep it fed) since there's no > separate ping method. I suppose that's reasonable semantics if the watchdog > was running at boot (and I like how that ends up interacting with my > open_deadline proposal), but probably a little too subtle. This would also > change if the ->start method was broken up into separate ping and start > methods, which it seems that it could be. > > If we do clear the bit here, I think it's neater to set it in start as well, > even if that doesn't really have any effect. > The problem is different. The core should clear the bit on close if there is a stop function, and if calling the stop function does not return an error. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html