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Guenter Roeck
0254e95353 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>
2016-01-11 21:53:59 +01:00
Guenter Roeck
faa584757b 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>
2016-01-11 21:53:57 +01:00
Guenter Roeck
b4ffb19098 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>
2015-12-29 20:36:03 +01:00
Damien Riegel
e131319669 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>
2015-12-13 15:55:51 +01:00
Damien Riegel
2165bf524d 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>
2015-12-13 15:27:10 +01:00
Jean-Baptiste Theou
ef90174f82 watchdog: watchdog_core: Add watchdog registration deferral mechanism
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>
2015-06-29 11:51:06 +02:00
Fabio Porcedda
3048253ed9 watchdog: core: dt: add support for the timeout-sec dt property
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>
2013-03-01 12:48:36 +01:00
Hans de Goede
e907df3272 watchdog: Add support for dynamically allocated watchdog_device structs
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>
2012-05-30 07:55:31 +02:00
Hans de Goede
f4e9c82f64 watchdog: Add Locking support
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>
2012-05-30 07:55:23 +02:00
Alan Cox
d6b469d915 watchdog: create all the proper device files
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>
2012-05-30 07:54:46 +02:00
Alan Cox
45f5fed30a watchdog: Add multiple device support
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>
2012-05-30 07:54:25 +02:00
Devendra Naga
2deca73655 Documentation/watchdog: Fix a small typo
Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2012-05-23 16:27:00 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
fd7b673c92 watchdog: Add support for WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT IOCTL in watchdog core
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>
2012-03-27 20:15:37 +02:00
Hans de Goede
b10f7c12e0 watchdog: watchdog_dev: Let the driver update the timeout field on 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>
2012-03-27 20:07:43 +02:00
Masanari Iida
e19865219d Documentation: Fix typo in watchdog-kernel-api.txt
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>
2012-02-21 11:40:34 +01:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
ff0b3cd4a4 watchdog: add nowayout helpers to Watchdog Timer Driver Kernel API
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>
2012-01-06 15:22:04 +01:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
3f43f68e29 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add minimum and max timeout
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:18 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
78d88fc012 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add ioctl call
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:16 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
7e192b9c42 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout feature
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:14 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
017cf08051 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add Magic Close feature
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:12 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
014d694e5d watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and 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>
2011-07-28 08:01:11 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
234445b4e4 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:09 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
c2dc00e494 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:07 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
2fa03560ab watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic ioctl functionality
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:05 +00:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
43316044d4 watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework
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>
2011-07-28 08:01:04 +00:00