This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled watchdog: iTCO_wdt: No need to stop the timer in probe to the 4.19-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-itco_wdt-no-need-to-stop-the-timer-in-probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 712f14384688f5e56c48006647092ed5b05ce4e0 Author: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 2 09:05:39 2023 +0200 watchdog: iTCO_wdt: No need to stop the timer in probe commit 1ae3e78c08209ac657c59f6f7ea21bbbd7f6a1d4 upstream. The watchdog core can handle pinging of the watchdog before userspace opens the device. For this reason instead of stopping the timer, just mark it as running and let the watchdog core take care of it. Cc: Malin Jonsson <malin.jonsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210921102900.61586-1-mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/iTCO_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c index 347f0389b0899..930798bac582d 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c @@ -401,6 +401,16 @@ static unsigned int iTCO_wdt_get_timeleft(struct watchdog_device *wd_dev) return time_left; } +static void iTCO_wdt_set_running(struct iTCO_wdt_private *p) +{ + u16 val; + + /* Bit 11: TCO Timer Halt -> 0 = The TCO timer is * enabled */ + val = inw(TCO1_CNT(p)); + if (!(val & BIT(11))) + set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &p->wddev.status); +} + /* * Kernel Interfaces */ @@ -537,8 +547,7 @@ static int iTCO_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) watchdog_set_drvdata(&p->wddev, p); platform_set_drvdata(pdev, p); - /* Make sure the watchdog is not running */ - iTCO_wdt_stop(&p->wddev); + iTCO_wdt_set_running(p); /* Check that the heartbeat value is within it's range; if not reset to the default */