From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> To: Timo Kokkonen <timo.kokkonen@offcode.fi>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com Cc: Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 1/8] watchdog: Extend kernel API to know about HW limitations Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 23:17:46 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <5547E1FA.1070301@pengutronix.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1429701102-22320-2-git-send-email-timo.kokkonen@offcode.fi> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2842 bytes --] On 04/22/2015 01:11 PM, Timo Kokkonen wrote: > There is a great deal of diversity in the watchdog hardware found on > different devices. Differen hardware have different contstraints on > them, many of the constraints that are excessively difficult for the > user space to satisfy. > > One such constraint is the length of the timeout value, which in many > cases can be just a few seconds. Drivers are creating ad hoc solutions > with timers and workqueues to extend the timeout in order to give user > space more time between updates. Looking at the drivers it is clear > that this has resulted to a lot of duplicate code. > > Add an extension to the watchdog kernel API that allows the driver to > describe tis HW constraints to the watchdog code. A kernel worker in > the core is then used to extend the watchdog timeout on behalf of the > user space. This allows the drivers to be simplified as core takes > over the timer extending. > > Tested-by: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com> > Signed-off-by: Timo Kokkonen <timo.kokkonen@offcode.fi> > --- > drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > include/linux/watchdog.h | 23 +++++++++ > 3 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > [...] > static int watchdog_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wddev, > unsigned int timeout) > { > - int err; > + int err = 0; > + > + if (wddev->hw_max_timeout) { > + int hw_timeout; > + /* > + * We can't support too short timeout values. There is > + * really no maximu however, anything longer than HW > + * maximum will be supported by the watchdog core on > + * behalf of the actual HW. > + */ > + if (timeout < wddev->min_timeout) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + mutex_lock(&wddev->lock); The locking in this function looks weird. > + if (test_bit(WDOG_UNREGISTERED, &wddev->status)) { > + err = -ENODEV; > + goto out_timeout; > + } > + > + if (timeout * HZ > wddev->hw_max_timeout) > + schedule_delayed_work(&wddev->work, > + wddev->hw_heartbeat); > + > + hw_timeout = min(timeout, wddev->hw_max_timeout / HZ); > + if (wddev->info->options & WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT) > + err = wddev->ops->set_timeout(wddev, hw_timeout); > + > + if (hw_timeout < timeout) > + wddev->timeout = timeout; > + > + goto out_timeout; > + } > > if ((wddev->ops->set_timeout == NULL) || > !(wddev->info->options & WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT)) Marc -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Industrial Linux Solutions | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de | [-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 801 bytes --]
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From: mkl@pengutronix.de (Marc Kleine-Budde) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCHv7 1/8] watchdog: Extend kernel API to know about HW limitations Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 23:17:46 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <5547E1FA.1070301@pengutronix.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1429701102-22320-2-git-send-email-timo.kokkonen@offcode.fi> On 04/22/2015 01:11 PM, Timo Kokkonen wrote: > There is a great deal of diversity in the watchdog hardware found on > different devices. Differen hardware have different contstraints on > them, many of the constraints that are excessively difficult for the > user space to satisfy. > > One such constraint is the length of the timeout value, which in many > cases can be just a few seconds. Drivers are creating ad hoc solutions > with timers and workqueues to extend the timeout in order to give user > space more time between updates. Looking at the drivers it is clear > that this has resulted to a lot of duplicate code. > > Add an extension to the watchdog kernel API that allows the driver to > describe tis HW constraints to the watchdog code. A kernel worker in > the core is then used to extend the watchdog timeout on behalf of the > user space. This allows the drivers to be simplified as core takes > over the timer extending. > > Tested-by: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com> > Signed-off-by: Timo Kokkonen <timo.kokkonen@offcode.fi> > --- > drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > include/linux/watchdog.h | 23 +++++++++ > 3 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > [...] > static int watchdog_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wddev, > unsigned int timeout) > { > - int err; > + int err = 0; > + > + if (wddev->hw_max_timeout) { > + int hw_timeout; > + /* > + * We can't support too short timeout values. There is > + * really no maximu however, anything longer than HW > + * maximum will be supported by the watchdog core on > + * behalf of the actual HW. > + */ > + if (timeout < wddev->min_timeout) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + mutex_lock(&wddev->lock); The locking in this function looks weird. > + if (test_bit(WDOG_UNREGISTERED, &wddev->status)) { > + err = -ENODEV; > + goto out_timeout; > + } > + > + if (timeout * HZ > wddev->hw_max_timeout) > + schedule_delayed_work(&wddev->work, > + wddev->hw_heartbeat); > + > + hw_timeout = min(timeout, wddev->hw_max_timeout / HZ); > + if (wddev->info->options & WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT) > + err = wddev->ops->set_timeout(wddev, hw_timeout); > + > + if (hw_timeout < timeout) > + wddev->timeout = timeout; > + > + goto out_timeout; > + } > > if ((wddev->ops->set_timeout == NULL) || > !(wddev->info->options & WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT)) Marc -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Industrial Linux Solutions | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20150504/5d0f92c6/attachment.sig>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 21:18 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2015-04-22 11:11 [PATCHv7 0/8] watchdog: Extend kernel API and add early_timeout_sec feature Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 1/8] watchdog: Extend kernel API to know about HW limitations Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-24 17:08 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-04-24 17:08 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-04-27 5:41 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-27 5:41 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 7:58 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-04 7:58 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-04 9:40 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 9:40 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 15:43 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-05-04 15:43 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-05-05 6:26 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-05 6:26 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 21:17 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message] 2015-05-04 21:17 ` Marc Kleine-Budde 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 2/8] watchdog: Allow watchdog to reset device at early boot Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 3/8] devicetree: Document generic watchdog properties Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 4/8] Documentation/watchdog: watchdog-test.c: Add support for changing timeout Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 5/8] watchdog: at91sam9_wdt: Convert to use new watchdog core extensions Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 6/8] watchdog: imx2_wdt: Convert to use new " Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-05 8:11 ` Marc Kleine-Budde 2015-05-05 8:11 ` Marc Kleine-Budde 2015-05-05 8:31 ` Marc Kleine-Budde 2015-05-05 8:31 ` Marc Kleine-Budde 2015-05-05 9:07 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-05 9:07 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 7/8] watchdog: omap_wdt: Fix memory leak on probe fail Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-26 15:32 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-04-26 15:32 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-04-27 5:50 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-27 5:50 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` [PATCHv7 8/8] watchdog: omap_wdt: Convert to use new core extensions Timo Kokkonen 2015-04-22 11:11 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-03 18:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-03 18:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-04 5:59 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 5:59 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 7:04 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-04 7:04 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-04 10:06 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 10:06 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-07 6:42 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-07 6:42 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-07 7:30 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-07 7:30 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-07 7:39 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-07 7:39 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-04 16:08 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-05-04 16:08 ` Guenter Roeck 2015-05-05 13:50 ` [PATCHv7 0/8] watchdog: Extend kernel API and add early_timeout_sec feature Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-05 13:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-06 7:26 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-06 7:26 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-06 7:48 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-06 7:48 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2015-05-06 8:23 ` Timo Kokkonen 2015-05-06 8:23 ` Timo Kokkonen
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