This adds the option to use a hrtimer to generate a watchdog pretimeout
event for hardware watchdogs that do not natively support watchdog
pretimeouts.
With this enabled, all watchdogs will appear to have pretimeout support
in userspace. If no pretimeout value is set, there will be no change in
the watchdog's behavior. If a pretimeout value is set for a specific
watchdog that does not have built-in pretimeout support, a timer will be
started that should fire at the specified time before the watchdog
timeout would occur. When the watchdog is successfully pinged, the timer
will be restarted. If the timer is allowed to fire it will generate a
pretimeout event. However because a software timer is used, it may not
be able to fire in every circumstance.
If the watchdog does support a pretimeout natively, that functionality
will be used instead of the hrtimer.
The general design of this feaure was inspired by the software watchdog,
specifically its own pretimeout implementation. However the software
watchdog and this feature are completely independent. They can be used
together; with or without CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT enabled.
The main advantage of using the hrtimer pretimeout with a hardware
watchdog, compared to running the software watchdog with a hardware
watchdog, is that if the hardware watchdog driver is unable to ping the
watchdog (e.g. due to a bus or communication error), then the hrtimer
pretimeout would still fire whereas the software watchdog would not.
Signed-off-by: Curtis Klein <curtis.klein@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1612383090-27110-1-git-send-email-curtis.klein@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
This gets rid of the unnecessary license boilerplate, and avoids
having to deal with individual patches one by one.
No functional changes.
Reviewed-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Acked-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
The watchdog character device is currently created in watchdog_dev.c,
and the watchdog device in watchdog_core.c. This results in
cross-dependencies, since device creation needs to know the watchdog
character device number as well as the watchdog class, both of which
reside in watchdog_dev.c.
Create the watchdog device in watchdog_dev.c to simplify the code.
Inspired by earlier patch set from Damien Riegel.
Cc: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
We need few sysfs attributes to know different status of a watchdog device.
To do that, we need to associate .dev_groups with watchdog_class. So
convert it from pointer to static.
Putting this static struct in watchdog_dev.c, so that static device
attributes defined in that file can be attached to it.
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
We keep the old /dev/watchdog interface file for the first watchdog via
miscdev. This is basically a cut and paste of the relevant interface code
from the rtc driver layer tweaked for watchdog.
Revised to fix problems noted by Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
The watchdog_core include file should have been named
watchdog_core.h and not watchdog_dev.h . Correct this.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Curtis Klein
Guenter Roeck
Pratyush Anand
Alan Cox
Wim Van Sebroeck