watchdog: omap: assert the counter being stopped before reprogramming
authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:38:46 +0000 (20:38 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:33:16 +0000 (16:33 +0200)
commit5e436e5b521702071b134842fe7463e29aa0ef83
treeacb12b91358f222171d980b5c95ae4962f17ad5d
parent0eeb094e5a6c3e5150a1d1366e03d55dd9ffa394
watchdog: omap: assert the counter being stopped before reprogramming

commit 530c11d432727c697629ad5f9d00ee8e2864d453 upstream.

The omap watchdog has the annoying behaviour that writes to most
registers don't have any effect when the watchdog is already running.
Quoting the AM335x reference manual:

To modify the timer counter value (the WDT_WCRR register),
prescaler ratio (the WDT_WCLR[4:2] PTV bit field), delay
configuration value (the WDT_WDLY[31:0] DLY_VALUE bit field), or
the load value (the WDT_WLDR[31:0] TIMER_LOAD bit field), the
watchdog timer must be disabled by using the start/stop sequence
(the WDT_WSPR register).

Currently the timer is stopped in the .probe callback but still there
are possibilities that yield to a situation where omap_wdt_start is
entered with the timer running (e.g. when /dev/watchdog is closed
without stopping and then reopened). In such a case programming the
timeout silently fails!

To circumvent this stop the timer before reprogramming.

Assuming one of the first things the watchdog user does is setting the
timeout explicitly nothing too bad should happen because this explicit
setting works fine.

Fixes: 7768a13c252a ("[PATCH] OMAP: Add Watchdog driver support")
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c