Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: vm-wdt: Add qemu,vm-watchdog compatible

[Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@google.com>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 08:30:31AM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> The stall detection mechanism allows to configure the expiration
> duration and the internal counter clock frequency measured in Hz.
> Add these properties in the schema.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@google.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/misc/vm-watchdog.yaml | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/vm-watchdog.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/vm-watchdog.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/vm-watchdog.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d7cca23357ab
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/vm-watchdog.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/misc/vm-watchdog.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: VM watchdog
> +
> +description: |
> +  This binding describes a CPU stall detector mechanism for virtual cpus
> +  which is accessed through MMIO.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@google.com>
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    enum:
> +      - qemu,vm-watchdog
> +  clock-frequency:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: |
> +      The watchdog internal clock measure in Hz used to decrement the
> +      watchdog counter register on each tick.
> +      Defaults to 10 if unset.
> +  timeout-sec:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: |
> +      The watchdog expiration timeout measured in seconds.
> +      Defaults to 8 if unset.
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +
> +additionalProperties: false

Hi,

> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    watchdog {
> +      compatible = "qemu,vm-watchdog";
> +      clock-frequency = <10>;
> +      timeout-sec = <8>;
> +    };
> +
> +...
> -- 
> 2.36.0.464.gb9c8b46e94-goog
>

I was thinking to move the properties clock-frequency and timeout-sec as
part of the emulated watchdog registers and keep only the registers
property in the DT.

Thanks,
Seb