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* iTCO_wdt regression on Dell laptop
@ 2021-07-26  9:19 Mantas Mikulėnas
  2021-07-26  9:40 ` Jan Kiszka
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Mantas Mikulėnas @ 2021-07-26  9:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guenter Roeck, Jan Kiszka; +Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck, linux-watchdog

Hello,

I have a Dell Inspiron 15-5547 laptop, with systemd configured to set
the watchdog to a 2-minute expiry (due to reasons):

# /etc/systemd/system.conf
[Manager]
RuntimeWatchdogSec=2min

So far this setting has worked without problems (including kernels
5.12.15 and 5.13.1); however, with kernel 5.13.4 the system inevitably
reboots after a few minutes of uptime.

I have tracked the issue down to commit 5e65819a006e "watchdog:
iTCO_wdt: Account for rebooting on second timeout" in the 5.13.x
branch (commit cb011044e34c upstream). There are no unexpected reboots
when running 5.13.4 with this commit reverted.

Indeed with the original 5.13.4 kernel, `wdctl` always reports
"Timeleft:" counting down from 60 seconds (sometimes very nearly
reaching 0), even though "Timeout" is still reported to be 120.

(systemd pokes the watchdog as part of its main loop, trying to so
approximately "between 1/4 and 1/2" of the configured interval.
According to wdctl these pings usually happen every 35-50 seconds but
sometimes nearly at the 60-second mark, and thanks to the kernel now
also dividing the requested expiry by /2 which systemd is unaware of,
sometimes this ends up being a *very* close race to 0.)

This is a Haswell-era machine (i7-4510U) and seems to have a "version
0" watchdog:

Jul 26 11:34:04 archlinux kernel: Linux version 5.13.4-arch2-1
(linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 11.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1
SMP PREEMPT Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:46:28 +0000
Jul 26 11:34:14 frost kernel: iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
Jul 26 11:34:14 frost kernel: iTCO_wdt iTCO_wdt.3.auto: Found a Lynx
Point_LP TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1860)
Jul 26 11:34:14 frost systemd[1]: Using hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt',
version 0, device /dev/watchdog
Jul 26 11:34:14 frost systemd[1]: Set hardware watchdog to 2min.
Jul 26 11:34:14 frost kernel: iTCO_wdt iTCO_wdt.3.auto: initialized.
heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas

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