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| author | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2020-02-06 16:58:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2020-02-10 02:23:50 +0100 |
| commit | 3f9e12e0df012c4a9a7fd7eb0d3ae69b459d6b2c (patch) | |
| tree | cf6d8c69c3db019ffb6800838272dad288fd92d7 | |
| parent | bb6d3fb354c5ee8d6bde2d576eb7220ea09862b9 (diff) | |
ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot
In case the WDAT interface is broken, give the user an option to
ignore it to let a native driver bind to the watchdog device instead.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c | 12 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index dbc22d684627..c07815d230bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ dynamic table installation which will install SSDT tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. + acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] + Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let + a native driver control the watchdog device instead. + acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c index b5516b04ffc0..ab6e434b4cee 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c @@ -55,12 +55,14 @@ static bool acpi_watchdog_uses_rtc(const struct acpi_table_wdat *wdat) } #endif +static bool acpi_no_watchdog; + static const struct acpi_table_wdat *acpi_watchdog_get_wdat(void) { const struct acpi_table_wdat *wdat = NULL; acpi_status status; - if (acpi_disabled) + if (acpi_disabled || acpi_no_watchdog) return NULL; status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_WDAT, 0, @@ -88,6 +90,14 @@ bool acpi_has_watchdog(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_has_watchdog); +/* ACPI watchdog can be disabled on boot command line */ +static int __init disable_acpi_watchdog(char *str) +{ + acpi_no_watchdog = true; + return 1; +} +__setup("acpi_no_watchdog", disable_acpi_watchdog); + void __init acpi_watchdog_init(void) { const struct acpi_wdat_entry *entries; |