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<title>watchdog: asm9260: remove __init and __exit annotations</title>
<updated>2016-01-11T21:48:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-08T10:59:34+00:00</published>
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The probe and release functions in this driver are marked
as __init and __exit, but this is wrong as indicated by this
Kbuild error message:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1d2308): Section mismatch in reference from the variable asm9260_wdt_driver to the function .init.text:asm9260_wdt_probe()

This removes the annotations, to make the sysfs unbind attribute
and deferred probing work.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Fixes: aae03dc98177 ("watchdog: add Alphascale asm9260-wdt driver")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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The probe and release functions in this driver are marked
as __init and __exit, but this is wrong as indicated by this
Kbuild error message:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1d2308): Section mismatch in reference from the variable asm9260_wdt_driver to the function .init.text:asm9260_wdt_probe()

This removes the annotations, to make the sysfs unbind attribute
and deferred probing work.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Fixes: aae03dc98177 ("watchdog: add Alphascale asm9260-wdt driver")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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<entry>
<title>watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device</title>
<updated>2016-01-11T20:53:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-03T23:11:58+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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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 &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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<entry>
<title>watchdog: ziirave: Use watchdog infrastructure to create sysfs attributes</title>
<updated>2016-01-11T20:53:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-03T23:11:57+00:00</published>
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The watchdog core now supports creating driver specific sysfs attributes
when creating the watchdog device.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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The watchdog core now supports creating driver specific sysfs attributes
when creating the watchdog device.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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<entry>
<title>watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes</title>
<updated>2016-01-11T20:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-03T23:11:56+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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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 &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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<entry>
<title>watchdog: stmp3xxx: Remove unused variables</title>
<updated>2016-01-11T20:51:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabio Estevam</name>
<email>fabio.estevam@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-04T12:30:47+00:00</published>
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Commit 8d2fa17151ea3 ("watchdog: stmp3xxx: Stop the watchdog on system
halt") introduced the following build warning:

drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c: In function 'wdt_notify_sys':
drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c:78:29: warning: unused variable 'pdata' [-Wunused-variable]

Remove the unused 'pdata' and 'dev' variables.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam &lt;fabio.estevam@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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Commit 8d2fa17151ea3 ("watchdog: stmp3xxx: Stop the watchdog on system
halt") introduced the following build warning:

drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c: In function 'wdt_notify_sys':
drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c:78:29: warning: unused variable 'pdata' [-Wunused-variable]

Remove the unused 'pdata' and 'dev' variables.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam &lt;fabio.estevam@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: add MT7621 watchdog support</title>
<updated>2016-01-09T16:45:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Crispin</name>
<email>blogic@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-04T19:36:38+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for the watchdog core found on newer MediaTek Wifi
SoCs MT7621 and MT7628. There is no symbol for MT7628 as it is a subtype of
MT7620 so we depend on that instead.

Signed-off-by: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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This patch adds support for the watchdog core found on newer MediaTek Wifi
SoCs MT7621 and MT7628. There is no symbol for MT7628 as it is a subtype of
MT7620 so we depend on that instead.

Signed-off-by: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: da9055_wdt: Drop reference counting</title>
<updated>2015-12-29T19:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-26T00:01:44+00:00</published>
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Reference counting is now implemented in the watchdog core and no longer
required in watchdog drivers.

Since it was implememented a no-op, and since the local memory is allocated
with devm_kzalloc(), the reference counting code in the driver really did
not really work anyway, and this patch effectively fixes a bug which could
cause a crash on unloading if the watchdog device was still open.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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Reference counting is now implemented in the watchdog core and no longer
required in watchdog drivers.

Since it was implememented a no-op, and since the local memory is allocated
with devm_kzalloc(), the reference counting code in the driver really did
not really work anyway, and this patch effectively fixes a bug which could
cause a crash on unloading if the watchdog device was still open.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: da9052_wdt: Drop reference counting</title>
<updated>2015-12-29T19:36:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-26T00:01:43+00:00</published>
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Reference counting is now implemented in the watchdog core and no longer
required in watchdog drivers.

Since it was implememented a no-op, and since the local memory is allocated
with devm_kzalloc(), the reference counting code in the driver really did
not really work anyway, and this patch effectively fixes a bug which could
cause a crash on unloading if the watchdog device was still open.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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Reference counting is now implemented in the watchdog core and no longer
required in watchdog drivers.

Since it was implememented a no-op, and since the local memory is allocated
with devm_kzalloc(), the reference counting code in the driver really did
not really work anyway, and this patch effectively fixes a bug which could
cause a crash on unloading if the watchdog device was still open.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Separate and maintain variables based on variable lifetime</title>
<updated>2015-12-29T19:36:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-26T00:01:42+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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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 &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: diag288: Stop re-using watchdog core internal flags</title>
<updated>2015-12-29T19:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-26T00:01:41+00:00</published>
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A watchdog driver should not use watchdog subsystem internal flags.
Use a driver variable and flag instead to maintain the watchdog state
and to determine if a suspend operation is possible or not.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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A watchdog driver should not use watchdog subsystem internal flags.
Use a driver variable and flag instead to maintain the watchdog state
and to determine if a suspend operation is possible or not.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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