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watchdog: dw_wdt: pat the watchdog before enabling it

On some dw_wdt implementations the "top" register may be initted to 0
at bootup. In such a case, each "pat" of the watchdog will reset the
timer to 0xffff. That's pretty short.

The input clock of the wdt can be any of a wide range of values. On
an rk3288 system, I've seen the wdt clock be 24.75 MHz. That means
each tick is ~40ns and we'll count to 0xffff in ~2.6ms.

Because of the above two facts, it's a really good idea to pat the
watchdog after initting the "top" register properly and before
enabling the watchdog. If you don't then there's no way we'll get the
next heartbeat in time.

Jisheng Zhang fixed this problem on some dw_wdt versions by using the
TOP_INIT feature. However, the dw_wdt on rk3288 doesn't have TOP_INIT
so it's a good idea to also pat the watchdog manually.

Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

authored by

Doug Anderson and committed by
Wim Van Sebroeck
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drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
··· 96 96 dw_wdt.next_heartbeat = jiffies + dw_wdt_get_top() * HZ; 97 97 } 98 98 99 + static void dw_wdt_keepalive(void) 100 + { 101 + writel(WDOG_COUNTER_RESTART_KICK_VALUE, dw_wdt.regs + 102 + WDOG_COUNTER_RESTART_REG_OFFSET); 103 + } 104 + 99 105 static int dw_wdt_set_top(unsigned top_s) 100 106 { 101 107 int i, top_val = DW_WDT_MAX_TOP; ··· 116 110 break; 117 111 } 118 112 119 - /* Set the new value in the watchdog. */ 113 + /* 114 + * Set the new value in the watchdog. Some versions of dw_wdt 115 + * have have TOPINIT in the TIMEOUT_RANGE register (as per 116 + * CP_WDT_DUAL_TOP in WDT_COMP_PARAMS_1). On those we 117 + * effectively get a pat of the watchdog right here. 118 + */ 120 119 writel(top_val | top_val << WDOG_TIMEOUT_RANGE_TOPINIT_SHIFT, 121 120 dw_wdt.regs + WDOG_TIMEOUT_RANGE_REG_OFFSET); 121 + 122 + /* 123 + * Add an explicit pat to handle versions of the watchdog that 124 + * don't have TOPINIT. This won't hurt on versions that have 125 + * it. 126 + */ 127 + dw_wdt_keepalive(); 122 128 123 129 dw_wdt_set_next_heartbeat(); 124 130 125 131 return dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(top_val); 126 - } 127 - 128 - static void dw_wdt_keepalive(void) 129 - { 130 - writel(WDOG_COUNTER_RESTART_KICK_VALUE, dw_wdt.regs + 131 - WDOG_COUNTER_RESTART_REG_OFFSET); 132 132 } 133 133 134 134 static int dw_wdt_restart_handle(struct notifier_block *this,