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2016-03-01watchdog: ni903x_wdt: Add NI 903x/913x watchdog driverKyle Roeschley
Add support for the watchdog timer on NI cRIO-903x and cDAQ-913x real- time controllers. Signed-off-by: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2016-01-31Add sun4v_wdt watchdog driverwim.coekaerts@oracle.com
This driver adds sparc hypervisor watchdog support. The default timeout is 60 seconds and the range is between 1 and 31536000 seconds. Both watchdog-resolution and watchdog-max-timeout MD properties settings are supported. Signed-off-by: Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-11watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_deviceGuenter Roeck
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>
2016-01-11watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributesGuenter Roeck
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>
2015-12-29watchdog: Separate and maintain variables based on variable lifetimeGuenter Roeck
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>
2015-12-13watchdog: core: add reboot notifier supportDamien Riegel
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>
2015-12-13watchdog: core: add restart handler supportDamien Riegel
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>
2015-09-09Documentation/watchdog: add timeout and ping rate control to watchdog-test.cTimur Tabi
The watchdog test program is much more useful if it can configure the timeout value and ping rate. This will allow you to test actual timeouts. Adds the -t parameter to set the timeout value (in seconds), and -p to set the ping rate (number of seconds between pings). Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2015-07-01watchdog: omap_wdt: early_enable module parameterLars Poeschel
Add a early_enable module parameter to the omap_wdt that starts the watchdog on module insertion. The default value is 0 which does not start the watchdog - which also does not change the behavior if the parameter is not given. Signed-off-by: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2015-06-29watchdog: watchdog_core: Add watchdog registration deferral mechanismJean-Baptiste Theou
Currently, watchdog subsystem require the misc subsystem to register a watchdog. This may not be the case in case of an early registration of a watchdog, which can be required when the watchdog cannot be disabled. This patch introduces a deferral mechanism to remove this requirement. Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Theou <jtheou@adeneo-embedded.us> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2015-06-22watchdog: docs: omap_wdt also understands nowayoutLars Poeschel
The omap_wdt kernel driver also understands the nowayout module parameter. This updates the watchdog-parameters.txt to reflect this fact. Signed-off-by: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2014-09-26Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o filesPeter Foley
Change the Documentation makefiles from obj-m to subdir-y to avoid generating unnecessary built-in.o files since nothing in Documentation/ is ever linked in to vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-08-05Documentation: fix two typos in watchdog-api.txtSangjung Woo
This patch changes 'go of' to 'go off' and 'pretimout' to 'pretimeout'. Signed-off-by: Sangjung Woo <sangjung.woo@samsung.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2014-03-31watchdog: it87_wdt: Work around non-working CIR interruptsMarc van der Wal
On some hardware platforms, the it87_wdt watchdog resets the machine despite the watchdog daemon running and writing to /dev/watchdog. This is due to Consumer IR buffer underrun interrupts being used as triggers to reset the timer. On some buggy hardware implementations such as the iEi AFL-12A-N270 single-board computer, this method does not work. However, resetting the timer by writing its original timeout value in its configuration register over and over again suppresses the unwanted reboots. Add a module option (nocir), 0 by default in order not to break existing setups. Setting it to 1 enables the workaround. Fixes bug #42801 <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42801>. Tested primarily on Linux 3.5.7, applies cleanly on Linux 3.13.5. Signed-off-by: Marc van der Wal <x0r+kernel@x0r.fr> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2014-03-31watchdog: Add tegra watchdogAndrew Chew
Add a driver for the hardware watchdogs in NVIDIA Tegra SoCs (Tegra30 and later). This driver will configure one watchdog timer that will reset the system in the case of a watchdog timeout. This driver binds to the nvidia,tegra30-timer device node and gets its register base from there. Signed-off-by: Andrew Chew <achew@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2013-07-11watchdog: delete mpcore_wdt driverViresh Kumar
Interrupt request doesn't use the right API: The TWD watchdog uses a per-cpu interrupt (usually interrupt #30), and the GIC configuration should flag it as such. With this setup, request_irq() should fail, and the right API is request_percpu_irq(), together with enable_percpu_irq()/disable_percpu_irq(). Nothing ensures the userspace ioctl() will end-up kicking the watchdog on the right CPU. There are no users of this driver since a long time and it makes more sense to get rid of it as nobody is looking to fix it. In case somebody wakes up after this has been removed and needs it, please revert this driver and pick these updates (These were never pushed to mainline): http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/245998 Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2013-03-01watchdog: core: dt: add support for the timeout-sec dt propertyFabio Porcedda
Add support for watchdog drivers to initialize/set the timeout field of the watchdog_device structure. The timeout field is initialised either with the module timeout parameter value (if valid) or with the timeout-sec dt property (if valid). If both are invalid the initial value is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-08-29watchdog: fix watchdog-test.c build warningRandy Dunlap
Fix compiler warning by making the function static: Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c:34:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'term' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30Watchdog: DA9052/53 PMIC watchdog supportAshish Jangam
This driver adds support for the watchdog functionality provided by the Dialog Semiconductor DA9052 PMIC chip. Tested on samsung smdkv6410 and i.mx53 QS boards. Signed-off-by: Anthony Olech <Anthony.Olech@diasemi.com> Signed-off-by: Ashish Jangam <ashish.jangam@kpitcummins.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30watchdog: Add support for dynamically allocated watchdog_device structsHans de Goede
If a driver's watchdog_device struct is part of a dynamically allocated struct (which it often will be), merely locking the module is not enough, even with a drivers module locked, the driver can be unbound from the device, examples: 1) The root user can unbind it through sysfd 2) The i2c bus master driver being unloaded for an i2c watchdog I will gladly admit that these are corner cases, but we still need to handle them correctly. The fix for this consists of 2 parts: 1) Add ref / unref operations, so that the driver can refcount the struct holding the watchdog_device struct and delay freeing it until any open filehandles referring to it are closed 2) Most driver operations will do IO on the device and the driver should not do any IO on the device after it has been unbound. Rather then letting each driver deal with this internally, it is better to ensure at the watchdog core level that no operations (other then unref) will get called after the driver has called watchdog_unregister_device(). This actually is the bulk of this patch. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30watchdog: Add Locking supportHans de Goede
This patch fixes some potential multithreading issues, despite only allowing one process to open the /dev/watchdog device, we can still get called multiple times at the same time, since a program could be using thread, or could share the fd after a fork. This causes 2 potential problems: 1) watchdog_start / open do an unlocked test_n_set / test_n_clear, if these 2 race, the watchdog could be stopped while the active bit indicates it is running or visa versa. 2) Most watchdog_dev drivers probably assume that only one watchdog-op will get called at a time, this is not necessary true atm. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30watchdog: create all the proper device filesAlan Cox
Create the watchdog class and it's associated devices. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-30watchdog: Add multiple device supportAlan Cox
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>
2012-05-23Documentation/watchdog: Fix the file descriptor leak when no cmdline arg givenDevendra Naga
we start a infinite loop when user gives ./watchdog-test, and when user ctrl + c's the program, we just exit immeadiately with out closing the filedescriptor of the watchdog device. a signal handler is used to do the job of closing the filedescriptor and exiting the program. Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-23Documentation/watchdog: close the fd when cmdline arg givenDevendra Naga
in the watchdog test code, the ioctl is performed on the watchdog device and just doing exit(0) so we leak a filedescripor. Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-23Documentation/watchdog: Fix a small typoDevendra Naga
Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-03-27watchdog: Add support for WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT IOCTL in watchdog coreViresh Kumar
This patch adds support for WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT IOCTL in watchdog core. So, there is another function pointer added to struct watchdog_ops, which can be passed by drivers to support this IOCTL. Related documentation is updated too. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-03-27watchdog: watchdog_dev: Let the driver update the timeout field on ↵Hans de Goede
set_timeout success When a set_timeout operation succeeds this does not necessarily mean that the exact timeout requested has been achieved, because the watchdog does not necessarily have a 1 second resolution. So rather then have the core set the timeout member of the watchdog_device struct to the exact requested value, instead the driver should set it to the actually achieved timeout value. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-03-27watchdog: documentation: remove index-fileWolfram Sang
The 00-index file in the watchdog directory is, like many others, outdated (conversion-howto is missing) and doesn't contain worthwhile additional information. As it seems to be a maintenance burden without much gain, simply remove it. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-02-21Documentation: Fix typo in watchdog-kernel-api.txtMasanari Iida
Correct spelling "retruns" to "returns" in Documentations/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-01-06watchdog: documentation: describe nowayout in coversion-guideWolfram Sang
nowayout is also handled by the watchdog core. Describe how this needs to be addressed in the conversion guide. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-01-06watchdog: documentation: update index fileWim Van Sebroeck
Add the convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.txt to the 00-INDEX file. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-01-06watchdog: add nowayout helpers to Watchdog Timer Driver Kernel APIWim Van Sebroeck
Add two nowayout helpers for the Watchdog Timer Driver Kernel API. And apply this to the already converted drivers. Note: s3c2410_wdt lost the nowayout feature during the conversion. Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2011-11-05Documentation: watchdog: add guide how to convert drivers to new frameworkWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add minimum and max timeoutWim Van Sebroeck
Add min_timeout (minimum timeout) and max_timeout values so that the framework can check if the new timeout value is between the minimum and maximum timeout values. If both values are 0, then the framework will leave the check for the watchdog device driver itself. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add ioctl callWim Van Sebroeck
Add support for extra ioctl calls by adding a ioctl watchdog operation. This operation will be called before we do our own handling of ioctl commands. This way we can override the internal ioctl command handling and we can also add extra ioctl commands. The ioctl watchdog operation should return the appropriate error codes or -ENOIOCTLCMD if the ioctl command should be handled through the internal ioctl handling of the framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout featureWim Van Sebroeck
Add support for the nowayout feature to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. This feature prevents the watchdog timer from being stopped. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add Magic Close featureWim Van Sebroeck
Add support for the Magic Close feature to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and ↵Wim Van Sebroeck
WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl This part add's the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctlWim Van Sebroeck
This part add's the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctlWim Van Sebroeck
This part add's the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Please note that the WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has to be set in the watchdog_info options field. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic ioctl functionalityWim Van Sebroeck
This part add's the basic ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. The supported ioctl call's are: WDIOC_GETSUPPORT WDIOC_GETSTATUS WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic frameworkWim Van Sebroeck
The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's. It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the operations that go with it. This is the introduction of this framework. This part supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's open, release and write functionality as defined in the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will follow in the next set of patches. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2010-07-01watchdog: docs: add an entry for imx2_wdtFabio Estevam
Add an entry for imx2_wdt in watchdog-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-05-25watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driverRandy Dunlap
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific files already. Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-04-06[WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl.James Hogan
In the watchdog-test program and watchdog-api.txt, pass the values to the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl as a pointer to an integer containing the values intead of directly in the third ioctl argument. The actual watchdog drivers in drivers/watchdog don't read the options directly from the argument but use get_user and copy_from_user. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-03[WATCHDOG] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync()Giel van Schijndel
Don't terminate the watchdog daemon when fsync() fails because no watchdog driver actually implements the fsync() syscall. Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2009-09-23Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGSLadinu Chandrasinghe
Fix up -Wmissing-prototypes in compileable userspace code, mainly under Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Ladinu Chandrasinghe <ladinu.pub@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trevor Keith <tsrk@tsrk.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-23[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI priority optionTom Mingarelli
Add a priority option so that the user can choose if we do the NMI first or last. Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>