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)
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:54:07 +0000 (15:54 +0200)
commit530c11d432727c697629ad5f9d00ee8e2864d453
tree56781114244d9cad82799d496492b6a467b3a1c8
parent0b3330f310b520f53a88a06bf44a4a6fda6b1a88
watchdog: omap: assert the counter being stopped before reprogramming

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>
drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c