Broken watchdog in u-boot master branch

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Mon Oct 10 18:19:18 CEST 2022


On Monday 10 October 2022 09:55:12 Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 09:12:25PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> 
> > Hello! Watchdog code seems to be broken in u-boot master branch.
> > On Nokia N900 I'm getting following message in qemu:
> > 
> > cyclic function rx51_watchdog took too long: 10000us vs 1000us max, disabling
> > 
> > Seems that watchdog core code is not prepared for "slower" watchdogs
> > which communicate over slower i2c bus, like it is the case for N900.
> > 
> > Disabling slower watchdog is a bad idea as it would result in reboot
> > loop instead of slower - but working code.
> 
> Adding the watchdog custodian. Have you bisected this behavior yet?
> Thanks.

No, I have not bisected it yet, I have not had time for it as I did
other thing (asm compiler error, HW runtime issues, ...) mentioned in
other threads.


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