[PATCH u-boot-marvell] arm: mvebu: turris_omnia: enable A385 watchdog before disabling MCU watchdog

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Fri Nov 12 14:44:15 CET 2021


On 11/9/21 17:14, Marek Behún wrote:
> From: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> 
> Commit aeb0ca64dbb5 ("arm: mvebu: turris_omnia: disable MCU watchdog in
> SPL when booting over UART") disabled MCU watchdog when booting over
> UART to ensure that watchdog does not reboot the board before UART
> transfer finishes.
> 
> But if UART transfer fails for some reason, or if U-Boot binary crashes,
> then board hangs forever as there is no watchdog running which could
> reset it.
> 
> To fix this issue, enable A385 watchdog with very high timeout before
> disabling MCU watchdog to ensure that even slow transfer can finish
> successfully before watchdog timer expires and also to ensure that if
> board hangs for some reason, watchdog will reset it.
> 
> Omnia's MCU watchdog has fixed 120 seconds timer and it cannot be
> changed (without updating MCU firmware). A385 watchdog by default uses
> 25 MHz input clock and so the largest timeout value (2^32-1) can be
> just 171 seconds. But A385 watchdog can be switched to use NBCLK (L2) as
> input clock (on Turris Omnia it is 800 MHz clock) and in this case final
> watchdog clock frequency is calculated as:
> 
>    freq = NBCLK / 2 / (2 ^ R)
> 
> So A385 watchdog on Turris Omnia can be configured to at most 1374
> seconds (about 22 minutes). We set it to 10 minutes, which should be
> enough even for bigger U-Boot binaries or slower UART transfers.
> 
> Both U-Boot and Linux kernel, when initializing A385 watchdog, switch
> watchdog timer to 25 MHz input clock, so usage of NBCLK input clock in
> U-Boot SPL does not cause any issues.
> 
> Fixes: aeb0ca64dbb5 ("arm: mvebu: turris_omnia: disable MCU watchdog in SPL when booting over UART")
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun at nic.cz>

I'm wondering if it makes sense to add this "slow" watchdog support to
the common watchdog driver instead (orion_wdt.c). So that it dynamically
configures the needed input clock for the desired timeout.

Would this be possible?

Thanks,
Stefan

> ---
>   board/CZ.NIC/turris_omnia/turris_omnia.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/board/CZ.NIC/turris_omnia/turris_omnia.c b/board/CZ.NIC/turris_omnia/turris_omnia.c
> index 36c596efc5..ae24d14b76 100644
> --- a/board/CZ.NIC/turris_omnia/turris_omnia.c
> +++ b/board/CZ.NIC/turris_omnia/turris_omnia.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,23 @@ DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>   #define OMNIA_I2C_EEPROM_CHIP_LEN	2
>   #define OMNIA_I2C_EEPROM_MAGIC		0x0341a034
>   
> +#define SYS_RSTOUT_MASK			MVEBU_REGISTER(0x18260)
> +#define   SYS_RSTOUT_MASK_WD		BIT(10)
> +
> +#define A385_WDT_GLOBAL_CTRL		MVEBU_REGISTER(0x20300)
> +#define   A385_WDT_GLOBAL_RATIO_MASK	GENMASK(18, 16)
> +#define   A385_WDT_GLOBAL_RATIO_SHIFT	16
> +#define   A385_WDT_GLOBAL_25MHZ		BIT(10)
> +#define   A385_WDT_GLOBAL_ENABLE	BIT(8)
> +
> +#define A385_WDT_GLOBAL_STATUS		MVEBU_REGISTER(0x20304)
> +#define   A385_WDT_GLOBAL_EXPIRED	BIT(31)
> +
> +#define A385_WDT_DURATION		MVEBU_REGISTER(0x20334)
> +
> +#define A385_WD_RSTOUT_UNMASK		MVEBU_REGISTER(0x20704)
> +#define   A385_WD_RSTOUT_UNMASK_GLOBAL	BIT(8)
> +
>   enum mcu_commands {
>   	CMD_GET_STATUS_WORD	= 0x01,
>   	CMD_GET_RESET		= 0x09,
> @@ -141,6 +158,47 @@ static int omnia_mcu_write(u8 cmd, const void *buf, int len)
>   	return dm_i2c_write(chip, cmd, buf, len);
>   }
>   
> +static void enable_a385_watchdog(unsigned int timeout_minutes)
> +{
> +	struct sar_freq_modes sar_freq;
> +	u32 watchdog_freq;
> +
> +	printf("Enabling A385 watchdog with %u minutes timeout...\n",
> +	       timeout_minutes);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Use NBCLK clock (a.k.a. L2 clock) as watchdog input clock with
> +	 * its maximal ratio 7 instead of default fixed 25 MHz clock.
> +	 * It allows to set watchdog duration up to the 22 minutes.
> +	 */
> +	clrsetbits_32(A385_WDT_GLOBAL_CTRL,
> +		      A385_WDT_GLOBAL_25MHZ | A385_WDT_GLOBAL_RATIO_MASK,
> +		      7 << A385_WDT_GLOBAL_RATIO_SHIFT);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Calculate watchdog clock frequency. It is defined by formula:
> +	 *   freq = NBCLK / 2 / (2 ^ ratio)
> +	 * We set ratio to the maximal possible value 7.
> +	 */
> +	get_sar_freq(&sar_freq);
> +	watchdog_freq = sar_freq.nb_clk * 1000000 / 2 / (1 << 7);
> +
> +	/* Set watchdog duration */
> +	writel(timeout_minutes * 60 * watchdog_freq, A385_WDT_DURATION);
> +
> +	/* Clear the watchdog expiration bit */
> +	clrbits_32(A385_WDT_GLOBAL_STATUS, A385_WDT_GLOBAL_EXPIRED);
> +
> +	/* Enable watchdog timer */
> +	setbits_32(A385_WDT_GLOBAL_CTRL, A385_WDT_GLOBAL_ENABLE);
> +
> +	/* Enable reset on watchdog */
> +	setbits_32(A385_WD_RSTOUT_UNMASK, A385_WD_RSTOUT_UNMASK_GLOBAL);
> +
> +	/* Unmask reset for watchdog */
> +	clrbits_32(SYS_RSTOUT_MASK, SYS_RSTOUT_MASK_WD);
> +}
> +
>   static bool disable_mcu_watchdog(void)
>   {
>   	int ret;
> @@ -423,10 +481,13 @@ void spl_board_init(void)
>   {
>   	/*
>   	 * If booting from UART, disable MCU watchdog in SPL, since uploading
> -	 * U-Boot proper can take too much time and trigger it.
> +	 * U-Boot proper can take too much time and trigger it. Instead enable
> +	 * A385 watchdog with very high timeout (10 minutes) to prevent hangup.
>   	 */
> -	if (get_boot_device() == BOOT_DEVICE_UART)
> +	if (get_boot_device() == BOOT_DEVICE_UART) {
> +		enable_a385_watchdog(10);
>   		disable_mcu_watchdog();
> +	}
>   }
>   
>   int board_init(void)
> 

Viele Grüße,
Stefan Roese

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