This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
watchdog: bd9576: Drop "always-running" property
to the 6.8-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-bd9576-drop-always-running-property.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3275ae81a8317fa8106b17ae8afa036c1819e4ef
Author: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 8 13:02:31 2024 +0300
watchdog: bd9576: Drop "always-running" property
[ Upstream commit e3b3afd34d84efcbe4543deb966b1990f43584b8 ]
The always-running (from linux,wdt-gpio.yaml) is abused by the BD9576
watchdog driver. It's defined meaning is "the watchdog is always running
and can not be stopped". The BD9576 watchdog driver has implemented it
as "start watchdog when loading the module and prevent it from being
stopped".
Furthermore, the implementation does not set the WDOG_HW_RUNNING when
enabling the watchdog due to the "always-running" at module loading.
This will end up resulting a watchdog timeout if the device is not
opened.
The culprit was pointed out by Guenter, discussion can be found from
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4fa3a64b-60fb-4e5e-8785-0f14da37eea2@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
Drop the invalid "always-running" handling.
Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b237bcac557a ("wdt: Support wdt on ROHM BD9576MUF and BD9573MUF")
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZhPAt76yaJMersXf@fedora
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/bd9576_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/bd9576_wdt.c
index 4a20e07fbb699..f00ea1b4e40b6 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/bd9576_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/bd9576_wdt.c
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ struct bd9576_wdt_priv {
struct gpio_desc *gpiod_en;
struct device *dev;
struct regmap *regmap;
- bool always_running;
struct watchdog_device wdd;
};
@@ -62,10 +61,7 @@ static int bd9576_wdt_stop(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
struct bd9576_wdt_priv *priv = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdd);
- if (!priv->always_running)
- bd9576_wdt_disable(priv);
- else
- set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdd->status);
+ bd9576_wdt_disable(priv);
return 0;
}
@@ -264,9 +260,6 @@ static int bd9576_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret)
return ret;
- priv->always_running = device_property_read_bool(dev->parent,
- "always-running");
-
watchdog_set_drvdata(&priv->wdd, priv);
priv->wdd.info = &bd957x_wdt_ident;
@@ -281,9 +274,6 @@ static int bd9576_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
watchdog_stop_on_reboot(&priv->wdd);
- if (priv->always_running)
- bd9576_wdt_start(&priv->wdd);
-
return devm_watchdog_register_device(dev, &priv->wdd);
}
