This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled watchdog: Fix OMAP watchdog early handling to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: watchdog-fix-omap-watchdog-early-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6d8a3703dbffd852e4aed255d324304c86761ceb Author: Walter Stoll <walter.stoll@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 14 12:22:29 2021 +0200 watchdog: Fix OMAP watchdog early handling [ Upstream commit cd004d8299f1dc6cfa6a4eea8f94cb45eaedf070 ] TI's implementation does not service the watchdog even if the kernel command line parameter omap_wdt.early_enable is set to 1. This patch fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Walter Stoll <walter.stoll@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/88a8fe5229cd68fa0f1fd22f5d66666c1b7057a0.camel@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c index 1b02bfa81b296..40c006ee8492d 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c @@ -271,8 +271,12 @@ static int omap_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) wdev->wdog.bootstatus = WDIOF_CARDRESET; } - if (!early_enable) + if (early_enable) { + omap_wdt_start(&wdev->wdog); + set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdev->wdog.status); + } else { omap_wdt_disable(wdev); + } ret = watchdog_register_device(&wdev->wdog); if (ret) {