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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2016-02-28 13:12:18 -0800
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2016-03-16 21:11:19 +0100
commit15013ad813f6544be8e79afc23672745950d59bc (patch)
tree8cb6da1a21407a0a30d8430fb10a6993863c371b /Documentation
parentd0684c8a9354953efdea214b437445c00743cf49 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index 9eabca1d9355..917eeeabfa5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct watchdog_device {
unsigned int timeout;
unsigned int min_timeout;
unsigned int max_timeout;
+ unsigned int min_hw_heartbeat_ms;
unsigned int max_hw_heartbeat_ms;
struct notifier_block reboot_nb;
struct notifier_block restart_nb;
@@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ It contains following fields:
* max_timeout: the watchdog timer's maximum timeout value (in seconds),
as seen from userspace. If set, the maximum configurable value for
'timeout'. Not used if max_hw_heartbeat_ms is non-zero.
+* min_hw_heartbeat_ms: Minimum time between heartbeats sent to the chip,
+ in milli-seconds.
* max_hw_heartbeat_ms: Maximum hardware heartbeat, in milli-seconds.
If set, the infrastructure will send heartbeats to the watchdog driver
if 'timeout' is larger than max_hw_heartbeat_ms, unless WDOG_ACTIVE