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# 60bcd91a 18-Jun-2021 Grzegorz Jaszczyk <grzegorz.jaszczyk@linaro.org>

watchdog: introduce watchdog_dev_suspend/resume

The watchdog drivers often disable wdog clock during suspend and then
enable it again during resume. Nevertheless the ping worker is still
running and

watchdog: introduce watchdog_dev_suspend/resume

The watchdog drivers often disable wdog clock during suspend and then
enable it again during resume. Nevertheless the ping worker is still
running and can issue low-level ping while the wdog clock is disabled
causing the system hang. To prevent such condition register pm notifier
in the watchdog core which will call watchdog_dev_suspend/resume and
actually cancel ping worker during suspend and restore it back, if
needed, during resume.

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Jaszczyk <grzegorz.jaszczyk@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210618195033.3209598-2-grzegorz.jaszczyk@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>

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Revision tags: v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1, v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4, v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1, v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5, v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9, v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6
# cef9572e 17-Jul-2020 Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>

watchdog: add support for adjusting last known HW keepalive time

Certain watchdogs require the watchdog only to be pinged within a
specific time window, pinging too early or too late cause the watch

watchdog: add support for adjusting last known HW keepalive time

Certain watchdogs require the watchdog only to be pinged within a
specific time window, pinging too early or too late cause the watchdog
to fire. In cases where this sort of watchdog has been started before
kernel comes up, we must adjust the watchdog keepalive window to match
the actually running timer, so add a new driver API for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200717132958.14304-3-t-kristo@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>

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Revision tags: v5.8-rc5, v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1, v5.7, v5.7-rc7, v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1
# f249eef9 03-Apr-2020 Bumsik Kim <kbumsik@gmail.com>

watchdog: clarify that stop() is optional

The commit d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it t

watchdog: clarify that stop() is optional

The commit d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it to clarify.

Signed-off-by: Bumsik Kim <k.bumsik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200403031507.63487-1-k.bumsik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>

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# 4951d27b 03-Apr-2020 Bumsik Kim <kbumsik@gmail.com>

watchdog: clarify that stop() is optional

The commit d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it t

watchdog: clarify that stop() is optional

The commit d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it to clarify.

Signed-off-by: Bumsik Kim <k.bumsik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200403031507.63487-1-k.bumsik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Revision tags: v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6, v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3, v5.6-rc2, v5.6-rc1, v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6, v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1, v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7, v5.4-rc6, v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2, v5.4-rc1, v5.3, v5.3-rc8, v5.3-rc7, v5.3-rc6, v5.3-rc5, v5.3-rc4, v5.3-rc3, v5.3-rc2, v5.3-rc1, v5.2, v5.2-rc7, v5.2-rc6, v5.2-rc5, v5.2-rc4, v5.2-rc3, v5.2-rc2, v5.2-rc1, v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3, v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8, v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3, v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6
# e1b83a31 09-Dec-2018 Hardik Singh Rathore <hardiksingh.k@gmail.com>

Watchdog: remove outdated comment

The lock field doesn't exist in watchdog_device structure.
It was added by commit f4e9c82f64b5 ("watchdog: Add Locking support")
and removed by commit b4ffb1909843

Watchdog: remove outdated comment

The lock field doesn't exist in watchdog_device structure.
It was added by commit f4e9c82f64b5 ("watchdog: Add Locking support")
and removed by commit b4ffb1909843
("watchdog: Separate and maintain variables based on variable lifetime")

Signed-off-by: Hardik Singh Rathore <hardiksingh.k@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>

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Revision tags: v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2, v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1, v4.18, v4.18-rc8, v4.18-rc7, v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3, v4.18-rc2, v4.18-rc1, v4.17, v4.17-rc7, v4.17-rc6, v4.17-rc5, v4.17-rc4, v4.17-rc3, v4.17-rc2, v4.17-rc1, v4.16, v4.16-rc7, v4.16-rc6, v4.16-rc5, v4.16-rc4, v4.16-rc3, v4.16-rc2, v4.16-rc1, v4.15, v4.15-rc9, v4.15-rc8, v4.15-rc7, v4.15-rc6, v4.15-rc5, v4.15-rc4, v4.15-rc3, v4.15-rc2, v4.15-rc1, v4.14, v4.14-rc8
# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Revision tags: v4.14-rc7, v4.14-rc6, v4.14-rc5, v4.14-rc4, v4.14-rc3, v4.14-rc2, v4.14-rc1, v4.13, v4.13-rc7, v4.13-rc6, v4.13-rc5, v4.13-rc4, v4.13-rc3, v4.13-rc2, v4.13-rc1, v4.12, v4.12-rc7, v4.12-rc6, v4.12-rc5, v4.12-rc4, v4.12-rc3, v4.12-rc2, v4.12-rc1, v4.11, v4.11-rc8, v4.11-rc7, v4.11-rc6, v4.11-rc5, v4.11-rc4, v4.11-rc3, v4.11-rc2, v4.11-rc1, v4.10, v4.10-rc8, v4.10-rc7, v4.10-rc6
# bb292ac1 25-Jan-2017 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Introduce watchdog_stop_on_unregister helper

Many watchdog drivers explicitly stop the watchdog when unregistering it.
While it is unclear if this is actually needed (the whatdog should no

watchdog: Introduce watchdog_stop_on_unregister helper

Many watchdog drivers explicitly stop the watchdog when unregistering it.
While it is unclear if this is actually needed (the whatdog should not be
running at that time if it can be stopped), introduce a helper to
explicitly stop the watchdog in the watchdog core when unregistering it.
This helps reducing driver code size while retaining functionality.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

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Revision tags: v4.10-rc5, v4.10-rc4, v4.10-rc3, v4.10-rc2, v4.10-rc1, v4.9, v4.9-rc8, v4.9-rc7, v4.9-rc6, v4.9-rc5, v4.9-rc4, v4.9-rc3, v4.9-rc2, v4.9-rc1
# ff84136c 07-Oct-2016 Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>

watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout governor framework

The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure,
its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog
pre

watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout governor framework

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 <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.8, v4.8-rc8, v4.8-rc7, v4.8-rc6, v4.8-rc5
# df044e02 31-Aug-2016 Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

watchdog: add pretimeout support to the core

Since the watchdog framework centrializes the IOCTL interfaces of device
drivers now, SETPRETIMEOUT and GETPRETIMEOUT need to be added in the
common code

watchdog: add pretimeout support to the core

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 <b38343@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
[vzapolskiy: added conditional pretimeout sysfs attribute visibility]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
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>

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Revision tags: v4.8-rc4, v4.8-rc3, v4.8-rc2, v4.8-rc1, v4.7, v4.7-rc7, v4.7-rc6, v4.7-rc5, v4.7-rc4, v4.7-rc3, v4.7-rc2, v4.7-rc1
# f9f535c1 27-May-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Improve description of min_hw_heartbeat_ms

The description of min_hw_heartbeat_ms is misleading and needs some
improvements.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-b

watchdog: Improve description of min_hw_heartbeat_ms

The description of min_hw_heartbeat_ms is misleading and needs some
improvements.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# 83fbae5a 27-May-2016 Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>

watchdog: Add a device managed API for watchdog_register_device()

This helps in reducing code in .remove callbacks and sometimes
dropping .remove callbacks entirely.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <

watchdog: Add a device managed API for watchdog_register_device()

This helps in reducing code in .remove callbacks and sometimes
dropping .remove callbacks entirely.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.6, v4.6-rc7, v4.6-rc6, v4.6-rc5, v4.6-rc4, v4.6-rc3, v4.6-rc2, v4.6-rc1, v4.5, v4.5-rc7
# 15013ad8 28-Feb-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats

Some watchdogs require a minimum time between heartbeats.
Examples are the watchdogs in DA9062 and AT91SAM9x.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck

watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats

Some watchdogs require a minimum time between heartbeats.
Examples are the watchdogs in DA9062 and AT91SAM9x.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# ee142889 28-Feb-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag

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

watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag

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 <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# 664a3923 28-Feb-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core

Introduce an optional hardware maximum heartbeat in the watchdog core.
The hardware maximum heartbeat can be lower than the maximum ti

watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core

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 <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.5-rc6
# 4d8b229d 27-Feb-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

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

The 'action' (or restart mode) and data parameters may be used by restart
handlers, so they should be passed to the restart c

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

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 <slemieux@tycoint.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.5-rc5, v4.5-rc4, v4.5-rc3, v4.5-rc2, v4.5-rc1, v4.4, v4.4-rc8
# 0254e953 03-Jan-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime
of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid

watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

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 <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# faa58475 03-Jan-2016 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes

The Zodiac watchdog driver attaches additional sysfs attributes to the
watchdog device. This has a number of problems: The watchdo

watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes

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 <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# 62cd1c40 03-Jan-2016 Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>

watchdog: kill unref/ref ops

ref/unref ops are not called at all so even marked them as deprecated
is misleading, we need to just drop the API.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com

watchdog: kill unref/ref ops

ref/unref ops are not called at all so even marked them as deprecated
is misleading, we need to just drop the API.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.4-rc7
# b4ffb190 26-Dec-2015 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Separate and maintain variables based on variable lifetime

All variables required by the watchdog core to manage a watchdog are
currently stored in struct watchdog_device. The lifetime of

watchdog: Separate and maintain variables based on variable lifetime

All variables required by the watchdog core to manage a watchdog are
currently stored in struct watchdog_device. The lifetime of those
variables is determined by the watchdog driver. However, the lifetime
of variables used by the watchdog core differs from the lifetime of
struct watchdog_device. To remedy this situation, watchdog drivers
can implement ref and unref callbacks, to be used by the watchdog
core to lock struct watchdog_device in memory.

While this solves the immediate problem, it depends on watchdog drivers
to actually implement the ref/unref callbacks. This is error prone,
often not implemented in the first place, or not implemented correctly.

To solve the problem without requiring driver support, split the variables
in struct watchdog_device into two data structures - one for variables
associated with the watchdog driver, one for variables associated with
the watchdog core. With this approach, the watchdog core can keep track
of its variable lifetime and no longer depends on ref/unref callbacks
in the driver. As a side effect, some of the variables originally in
struct watchdog_driver are now private to the watchdog core and no longer
visible in watchdog drivers.

As a side effect of the changes made, an ioctl will now always fail
with -ENODEV after a watchdog device was unregistered with the character
device still open. Previously, it would only fail with -ENODEV in some
situations. Also, ioctl operations are now atomic from driver perspective.
With this change, it is now guaranteed that the driver will not unregister
a watchdog between a timeout change and the subsequent ping.

The 'ref' and 'unref' callbacks in struct watchdog_driver are no longer
used and marked as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.4-rc6, v4.4-rc5, v4.4-rc4, v4.4-rc3, v4.4-rc2
# e1313196 20-Nov-2015 Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>

watchdog: core: add reboot notifier support

Many watchdog drivers register a reboot notifier in order to stop the
watchdog on system reboot. Thus we can factorize this code in the
watchdog core.

Fo

watchdog: core: add reboot notifier support

Many watchdog drivers register a reboot notifier in order to stop the
watchdog on system reboot. Thus we can factorize this code in the
watchdog core.

For that purpose, a new notifier block is added in watchdog_device for
internal use only, as well as a new watchdog_stop_on_reboot helper
function.

If this helper is called, watchdog core registers the related notifier
block and will stop the watchdog when SYS_HALT or SYS_DOWN is received.

Since this operation can be critical on some platforms, abort the device
registration if the reboot notifier registration fails.

Suggested-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# 2165bf52 16-Nov-2015 Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>

watchdog: core: add restart handler support

Many watchdog drivers implement the same code to register a restart
handler. This patch provides a generic way to set such a function.

The patch adds a n

watchdog: core: add restart handler support

Many watchdog drivers implement the same code to register a restart
handler. This patch provides a generic way to set such a function.

The patch adds a new restart watchdog operation. If a restart priority
greater than 0 is needed, the driver can call
watchdog_set_restart_priority to set it.

Suggested-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.4-rc1
# 760d2800 03-Nov-2015 Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

watchdog: include: add units for timeout values in kerneldoc

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Seb

watchdog: include: add units for timeout values in kerneldoc

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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# 80220fa7 03-Nov-2015 Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

watchdog: include: fix some typos

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>


Revision tags: v4.3, v4.3-rc7, v4.3-rc6, v4.3-rc5, v4.3-rc4
# 1e935949 29-Sep-2015 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

watchdog: Always evaluate new timeout against min_timeout

Up to now, a new timeout value is only evaluated against min_timeout
if max_timeout is provided. This does not really make sense; a driver
c

watchdog: Always evaluate new timeout against min_timeout

Up to now, a new timeout value is only evaluated against min_timeout
if max_timeout is provided. This does not really make sense; a driver
can have a minimum timeout even if it does not have a maximum timeout.
Ensure that it is not smaller than min_timeout, even if max_timeout
is not set.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

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Revision tags: v4.3-rc3, v4.3-rc2, v4.3-rc1
# aacfbe6a 04-Sep-2015 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

kernel/watchdog: move NMI function header declarations from watchdog.h to nmi.h

The kernel's NMI watchdog has nothing to do with the watchdog subsystem.
Its header declarations should be in linux/nm

kernel/watchdog: move NMI function header declarations from watchdog.h to nmi.h

The kernel's NMI watchdog has nothing to do with the watchdog subsystem.
Its header declarations should be in linux/nmi.h, not linux/watchdog.h.

The code provided two sets of dummy functions if HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is
not configured, one in the include file and one in kernel/watchdog.c.
Remove the dummy functions from kernel/watchdog.c and use those from the
include file.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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