3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 23afeb613ec0e10aecfae7838a14d485db62ac52 upstream. On some AR934x based systems, where the frequency of the AHB bus is relatively high, the built-in watchdog causes a spurious restart when it gets enabled. The possible cause of these restarts is that the timeout value written into the TIMER register does not reaches the hardware in time. Add an explicit delay into the ath79_wdt_enable function to avoid the spurious restarts. Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt #include <linux/bitops.h> +#include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/init.h> @@ -91,6 +92,15 @@ static inline void ath79_wdt_keepalive(v static inline void ath79_wdt_enable(void) { ath79_wdt_keepalive(); + + /* + * Updating the TIMER register requires a few microseconds + * on the AR934x SoCs at least. Use a small delay to ensure + * that the TIMER register is updated within the hardware + * before enabling the watchdog. + */ + udelay(2); + ath79_wdt_wr(WDOG_REG_CTRL, WDOG_CTRL_ACTION_FCR); /* flush write */ ath79_wdt_rr(WDOG_REG_CTRL); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html