[PATCH 3/4] watchdog: Allow to use CONFIG_WDT without starting watchdog

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Tue Mar 9 17:14:12 CET 2021


On Tuesday 09 March 2021 17:12:40 Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 09.03.21 14:27, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 March 2021 12:33:24 Stefan Roese wrote:
> > > On 05.03.21 22:36, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > In some cases it is useful to compile support for U-Boot command 'wdt'
> > > > without starting HW watchdog in early U-Boot phase. For example when user
> > > 
> > > Nitpicking:
> > >    when "the" user
> > > 
> > > > want to start watchdog only on demand by some boot script.
> > > > 
> > > > This change adds a new compile option WATCHDOG_AUTOSTART to control whether
> > > > U-Boot should automatically start watchdog during init phase or not.
> > > 
> > >    start "the" watchdog
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This option is enabled by default as it was was default behavior prior
> > > 
> > >    as it was the default
> > > 
> > > > introducing this new change. When compiling U-Boot users can decide to turn
> > > > this option off.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >    drivers/watchdog/Kconfig      | 13 +++++++++++++
> > > >    drivers/watchdog/wdt-uclass.c |  7 +++++++
> > > >    2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> > > > index 602ccbe41c00..aa76a8f2d239 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -9,6 +9,19 @@ config WATCHDOG
> > > >    	  this option if you want to service enabled watchdog by U-Boot. Disable
> > > >    	  this option if you want U-Boot to start watchdog but never service it.
> > > > +config WATCHDOG_AUTOSTART
> > > > +	bool "Automatically start watchdog timer"
> > > > +	depends on WDT
> > > > +	default y
> > > > +	help
> > > > +	  Automatically start watchdog timer and start servicing it during
> > > > +	  init phase. Enabled by default. Disable this option if you want
> > > > +	  to compile U-Boot with CONFIG_WDT support but do not want to
> > > > +	  activate watchdog, like when CONFIG_WDT option is disabled. You
> > > > +	  would be able to start watchdog manually by 'wdt' command. Useful
> > > > +	  when you want to have support for 'wdt' command but do not want
> > > > +	  to have watchdog enabled by default.
> > > > +
> > > >    config WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_MSECS
> > > >    	int "Watchdog timeout in msec"
> > > >    	default 128000 if ARCH_MX25 || ARCH_MX31 || ARCH_MX5 || ARCH_MX6
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/wdt-uclass.c b/drivers/watchdog/wdt-uclass.c
> > > > index 7500b3ed90e3..00a408bf5cc5 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/watchdog/wdt-uclass.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/wdt-uclass.c
> > > > @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ static ulong reset_period = 1000;
> > > >    int initr_watchdog(void)
> > > >    {
> > > >    	u32 timeout = WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_SECS;
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_AUTOSTART
> > > >    	int ret;
> > > > +#endif
> > > 
> > > Please don't add more #ifdef's if possible, see below...
> > > 
> > > >    	/*
> > > >    	 * Init watchdog: This will call the probe function of the
> > > > @@ -51,6 +53,10 @@ int initr_watchdog(void)
> > > >    						    4 * reset_period) / 4;
> > > >    	}
> > > > +#ifndef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_AUTOSTART
> > > > +	printf("WDT:   Not starting\n");
> > > > +	return 0;
> > > > +#else
> > > >    	ret = wdt_start(gd->watchdog_dev, timeout * 1000, 0);
> > > >    	if (ret != 0) {
> > > >    		printf("WDT:   Failed to start\n");
> > > > @@ -61,6 +67,7 @@ int initr_watchdog(void)
> > > >    	       IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_WATCHDOG) ? "" : "out", timeout);
> > > >    	return 0;
> > > > +#endif
> > > 
> > > Please use this instead here:
> > > 
> > > 	if (CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(WATCHDOG_AUTOSTART)) {
> > > 	...
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Stefan
> > > 
> > > >    }
> > > >    int wdt_start(struct udevice *dev, u64 timeout_ms, ulong flags)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Viele Grüße,
> > > Stefan
> > 
> > I have fixed these issues in V2.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Could you please next time when sending an updated patch series /
> version include the tags, like my RB tag? As patchwork collects
> these automatically and now I need to re-send them again - which I
> will do this time. ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

Ok, no problem!


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