user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/watchdog.h, branch v4.9.5

watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout governor framework

2016-10-08T08:27:10Z

The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure, its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog pretimeout events, which may be generated by some watchdog devices. A user selects a default watchdog pretimeout governor during compilation stage. Watchdogs with WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability now have one more device attribute in sysfs, pretimeout_governor attribute is intended to display the selected watchdog pretimeout governor. The framework has no impact at runtime on watchdog devices with no WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability set. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang Tested-by: Wolfram Sang Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: add pretimeout support to the core

2016-09-24T07:27:15Z

Since the watchdog framework centrializes the IOCTL interfaces of device drivers now, SETPRETIMEOUT and GETPRETIMEOUT need to be added in the common code. Signed-off-by: Robin Gong Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang [vzapolskiy: added conditional pretimeout sysfs attribute visibility] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Improve description of min_hw_heartbeat_ms

2016-07-17T19:00:14Z

The description of min_hw_heartbeat_ms is misleading and needs some improvements. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Add a device managed API for watchdog_register_device()

2016-07-17T18:52:40Z

This helps in reducing code in .remove callbacks and sometimes dropping .remove callbacks entirely. Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats

2016-03-16T20:11:19Z

Some watchdogs require a minimum time between heartbeats. Examples are the watchdogs in DA9062 and AT91SAM9x. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag

2016-03-16T20:11:15Z

The WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag is expected to be set by watchdog drivers if the hardware watchdog is running. If the flag is set, the watchdog subsystem will ping the watchdog even if the watchdog device is closed. The watchdog driver stop function is now optional and may be omitted if the watchdog can not be stopped. If stopping the watchdog is not possible but the driver implements a stop function, it is responsible to set the WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag in its stop function. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core

2016-03-16T20:11:14Z

Introduce an optional hardware maximum heartbeat in the watchdog core. The hardware maximum heartbeat can be lower than the maximum timeout. Drivers can set the maximum hardware heartbeat value in the watchdog data structure. If the configured timeout exceeds the maximum hardware heartbeat, the watchdog core enables a timer function to assist sending keepalive requests to the watchdog driver. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Add 'action' and 'data' parameters to restart handler callback

2016-03-01T14:36:35Z

The 'action' (or restart mode) and data parameters may be used by restart handlers, so they should be passed to the restart callback functions. Cc: Sylvain Lemieux Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

2016-01-11T20:53:59Z

The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes

2016-01-11T20:53:57Z

The Zodiac watchdog driver attaches additional sysfs attributes to the watchdog device. This has a number of problems: The watchdog device lifetime differs from the driver lifetime, and the device structure should therefore not be accessed from drivers. Also, creating sysfs attributes after driver registration results in a potential race condition if user space expects the attributes to exist but they don't exist yet. Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes to the watchdog core to solve the problems. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck