On 28.02.18 02:52:20, Jayachandran C wrote: > According to SBSA spec v3.1 section 5.3: > All registers are 32 bits in size and should be accessed using > 32-bit reads and writes. If an access size other than 32 bits > is used then the results are IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED. > [...] > The Generic Watchdog is little-endian > > The current code uses readq to read the watchdog compare register > which does a 64-bit access. This fails on ThunderX2 which does not > implement 64-bit access to this register. > > Fix this by using lo_hi_readq() that does two 32-bit reads. > > Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jnair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxx> I have looked into the non-atomic use of the register access and it looks sane as the WCV register is only incremented by hardware. There is no concurrent (write) access from the kernel. -Robert -- 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
