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authorVladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>2016-10-07 15:39:54 +0300
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2016-10-08 10:27:10 +0200
commitff84136cb6a4943f489ad037fe93f43be0573c23 (patch)
treebde99dc52bf4066e666681d280011d37d17d269a /Documentation/watchdog
parentfc113d54e9d7ef3296cdf2eff49c8ca0a3e5a482 (diff)
downloadlinux-ff84136cb6a4943f489ad037fe93f43be0573c23.tar.bz2
watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout governor framework
The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure, its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog pretimeout events, which may be generated by some watchdog devices. A user selects a default watchdog pretimeout governor during compilation stage. Watchdogs with WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability now have one more device attribute in sysfs, pretimeout_governor attribute is intended to display the selected watchdog pretimeout governor. The framework has no impact at runtime on watchdog devices with no WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability set. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index 3402dcad5b03..ea277478982f 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct watchdog_device {
const struct attribute_group **groups;
const struct watchdog_info *info;
const struct watchdog_ops *ops;
+ const struct watchdog_governor *gov;
unsigned int bootstatus;
unsigned int timeout;
unsigned int pretimeout;
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ It contains following fields:
* info: a pointer to a watchdog_info structure. This structure gives some
additional information about the watchdog timer itself. (Like it's unique name)
* ops: a pointer to the list of watchdog operations that the watchdog supports.
+* gov: a pointer to the assigned watchdog device pretimeout governor or NULL.
* timeout: the watchdog timer's timeout value (in seconds).
This is the time after which the system will reboot if user space does
not send a heartbeat request if WDOG_ACTIVE is set.
@@ -288,3 +290,14 @@ User should follow the following guidelines for setting the priority:
* 128: default restart handler, use if no other handler is expected to be
available, and/or if restart is sufficient to restart the entire system
* 255: highest priority, will preempt all other restart handlers
+
+To raise a pretimeout notification, the following function should be used:
+
+void watchdog_notify_pretimeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
+
+The function can be called in the interrupt context. If watchdog pretimeout
+governor framework (kbuild CONFIG_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV symbol) is enabled,
+an action is taken by a preconfigured pretimeout governor preassigned to
+the watchdog device. If watchdog pretimeout governor framework is not
+enabled, watchdog_notify_pretimeout() prints a notification message to
+the kernel log buffer.