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<title>linux.git/drivers/watchdog, branch v4.6-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>hpwdt: use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in NMI handler</title>
<updated>2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hidehiro Kawai</name>
<email>hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:27:24+00:00</published>
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Commit 1717f2096b54 ("panic, x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic
on NMI") introduced nmi_panic() which prevents concurrent and recursive
execution of panic().  It also saves registers for the crash dump on x86
by later commit 58c5661f2144 ("panic, x86: Allow CPUs to save registers
even if looping in NMI context").

hpwdt driver can call panic() from NMI handler, so replace it with
nmi_panic().  Also, do some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai &lt;hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Mingarelli &lt;thomas.mingarelli@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 1717f2096b54 ("panic, x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic
on NMI") introduced nmi_panic() which prevents concurrent and recursive
execution of panic().  It also saves registers for the crash dump on x86
by later commit 58c5661f2144 ("panic, x86: Allow CPUs to save registers
even if looping in NMI context").

hpwdt driver can call panic() from NMI handler, so replace it with
nmi_panic().  Also, do some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai &lt;hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Mingarelli &lt;thomas.mingarelli@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T01:23:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T01:23:21+00:00</published>
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Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
  (ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
  It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.

  The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
  of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
  degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces.  These bugs are
  hard to detect at the source code level.  Such bugs result in
  incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
  rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.

  The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
  user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
  hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/.  The tool's (very
  simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
  shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
  infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
  upstream).  Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.

  Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
  resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
  the instruction stream and interprets it.  (Right now objtool supports
  the x86-64 architecture.)

  From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:

   "The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
    objtool which runs at compile time.  It has a "check" subcommand
    which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
    metadata.  It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
    assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.

    Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
    add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.

    For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
    and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

    It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
    .altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
    alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
    instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
    for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."

  When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
  tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
  warnings in compiler warning format:

    warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
    warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

  ... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
  All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
  of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free.  Most of
  them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
  also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
  such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.

  There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:

   - To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
     that they can be used for optimized live patching.

   - To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
     CFI stack frames at build time.  CFI debuginfo is notoriously
     unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
     checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.

  The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
  so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
  or CFI debuginfo angle"

* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  objtool: Only print one warning per function
  objtool: Add several performance improvements
  tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
  objtool: Rename some variables and functions
  objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
  objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
  objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
  objtool: Detect infinite recursion
  objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
  objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
  tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
  objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
  x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
  objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
  objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
  objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
  x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
  sched: Always inline context_switch()
  ...
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Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
  (ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
  It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.

  The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
  of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
  degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces.  These bugs are
  hard to detect at the source code level.  Such bugs result in
  incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
  rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.

  The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
  user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
  hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/.  The tool's (very
  simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
  shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
  infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
  upstream).  Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.

  Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
  resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
  the instruction stream and interprets it.  (Right now objtool supports
  the x86-64 architecture.)

  From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:

   "The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
    objtool which runs at compile time.  It has a "check" subcommand
    which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
    metadata.  It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
    assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.

    Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
    add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.

    For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
    and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

    It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
    .altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
    alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
    instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
    for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."

  When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
  tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
  warnings in compiler warning format:

    warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
    warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

  ... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
  All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
  of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free.  Most of
  them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
  also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
  such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.

  There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:

   - To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
     that they can be used for optimized live patching.

   - To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
     CFI stack frames at build time.  CFI debuginfo is notoriously
     unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
     checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.

  The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
  so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
  or CFI debuginfo angle"

* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  objtool: Only print one warning per function
  objtool: Add several performance improvements
  tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
  objtool: Rename some variables and functions
  objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
  objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
  objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
  objtool: Detect infinite recursion
  objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
  objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
  tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
  objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
  x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
  objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
  objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
  objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
  x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
  sched: Always inline context_switch()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog</title>
<updated>2016-03-20T02:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-20T02:35:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1e75a9f34a5ed5902707fb74b468356c55142b71'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull watchdog updates from Wim Van Sebroeck:

 - new drivers for: NI 903x/913x watchdog driver, WinSystems EBC-C384
   watchdog timer and ARM SBSA watchdog driver

 - Support for NCT6102D devices

 - Improvements of the generic watchdog framework (improve restart
   handler, make set_timeout optional, introduce infrastructure
   triggered keepalives, ...

 - improvements on the pnx4008 watchdog driver

 - several smaller fixes and improvements

* git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog: (28 commits)
  watchdog: Ensure that wdd is not dereferenced if NULL
  watchdog: imx2: Convert to use infrastructure triggered keepalives
  watchdog: dw_wdt: Convert to use watchdog infrastructure
  watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats
  watchdog: Make stop function optional
  watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag
  watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core
  watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional
  arm: lpc32xx: remove restart handler
  arm: lpc32xx: phy3250 remove restart hook
  watchdog: pnx4008: restart: support "cmd" from userspace
  watchdog: pnx4008: add support for soft reset
  watchdog: pnx4008: add restart handler
  watchdog: pnx4008: update logging during power-on
  watchdog: tangox_wdt: test clock rate to avoid division by 0
  watchdog: atlas7_wdt: test clock rate to avoid division by 0
  watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Add max and min timeout values
  Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
  Documentation: add sbsa-gwdt driver documentation
  watchdog: Add watchdog timer support for the WinSystems EBC-C384
  ...
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Pull watchdog updates from Wim Van Sebroeck:

 - new drivers for: NI 903x/913x watchdog driver, WinSystems EBC-C384
   watchdog timer and ARM SBSA watchdog driver

 - Support for NCT6102D devices

 - Improvements of the generic watchdog framework (improve restart
   handler, make set_timeout optional, introduce infrastructure
   triggered keepalives, ...

 - improvements on the pnx4008 watchdog driver

 - several smaller fixes and improvements

* git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog: (28 commits)
  watchdog: Ensure that wdd is not dereferenced if NULL
  watchdog: imx2: Convert to use infrastructure triggered keepalives
  watchdog: dw_wdt: Convert to use watchdog infrastructure
  watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats
  watchdog: Make stop function optional
  watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag
  watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core
  watchdog: Make set_timeout function optional
  arm: lpc32xx: remove restart handler
  arm: lpc32xx: phy3250 remove restart hook
  watchdog: pnx4008: restart: support "cmd" from userspace
  watchdog: pnx4008: add support for soft reset
  watchdog: pnx4008: add restart handler
  watchdog: pnx4008: update logging during power-on
  watchdog: tangox_wdt: test clock rate to avoid division by 0
  watchdog: atlas7_wdt: test clock rate to avoid division by 0
  watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Add max and min timeout values
  Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
  Documentation: add sbsa-gwdt driver documentation
  watchdog: Add watchdog timer support for the WinSystems EBC-C384
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Ensure that wdd is not dereferenced if NULL</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-09T02:46:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d1ed3ba4e3d76b4ebec239c64f990c26d7935700'/>
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<content type='text'>
Smatch rightfully complains that wdd is dereferenced in the watchdog
release function after being checked for NULL. Also make sure that it
is not accessed outside mutex protection to avoid use-after-free problems.

Fixes: e6c71e84e4c0 ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.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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Smatch rightfully complains that wdd is dereferenced in the watchdog
release function after being checked for NULL. Also make sure that it
is not accessed outside mutex protection to avoid use-after-free problems.

Fixes: e6c71e84e4c0 ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: imx2: Convert to use infrastructure triggered keepalives</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T21:12:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=11d7aba9ceb726d86aaaca3eb5f7d79de38989c5'/>
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The watchdog infrastructure now supports handling watchdog keepalive
if the watchdog is running while the watchdog device is closed.
Convert the driver to use this infrastructure.

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 infrastructure now supports handling watchdog keepalive
if the watchdog is running while the watchdog device is closed.
Convert the driver to use this infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: dw_wdt: Convert to use watchdog infrastructure</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T21:12:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f29a72c24ad4927027e77e4eed431a61bc8335b2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Convert driver to use watchdog infrastructure. This includes
infrastructure support to handle watchdog keepalive if the watchdog
is running while the watchdog device is closed.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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<pre>
Convert driver to use watchdog infrastructure. This includes
infrastructure support to handle watchdog keepalive if the watchdog
is running while the watchdog device is closed.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T21:12:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=15013ad813f6544be8e79afc23672745950d59bc'/>
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Some watchdogs require a minimum time between heartbeats.
Examples are the watchdogs in DA9062 and AT91SAM9x.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</content>
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Some watchdogs require a minimum time between heartbeats.
Examples are the watchdogs in DA9062 and AT91SAM9x.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Make stop function optional</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T21:12:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d0684c8a9354953efdea214b437445c00743cf49'/>
<id>d0684c8a9354953efdea214b437445c00743cf49</id>
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Not all hardware watchdogs can be stopped. The driver for
such watchdogs would typically only set the WATCHDOG_HW_RUNNING
flag in its stop function. Make the stop function optional and set
WATCHDOG_HW_RUNNING in the watchdog core if it is not provided.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</content>
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Not all hardware watchdogs can be stopped. The driver for
such watchdogs would typically only set the WATCHDOG_HW_RUNNING
flag in its stop function. Make the stop function optional and set
WATCHDOG_HW_RUNNING in the watchdog core if it is not provided.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T21:12:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ee142889e32f564f9b5e57b68b06693ec5473074'/>
<id>ee142889e32f564f9b5e57b68b06693ec5473074</id>
<content type='text'>
The WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag is expected to be set by watchdog drivers if
the hardware watchdog is running. If the flag is set, the watchdog
subsystem will ping the watchdog even if the watchdog device is closed.

The watchdog driver stop function is now optional and may be omitted
if the watchdog can not be stopped. If stopping the watchdog is not
possible but the driver implements a stop function, it is responsible
to set the WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag in its stop function.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
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The WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag is expected to be set by watchdog drivers if
the hardware watchdog is running. If the flag is set, the watchdog
subsystem will ping the watchdog even if the watchdog device is closed.

The watchdog driver stop function is now optional and may be omitted
if the watchdog can not be stopped. If stopping the watchdog is not
possible but the driver implements a stop function, it is responsible
to set the WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag in its stop function.

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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<title>watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T20:11:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T21:12:15+00:00</published>
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Introduce an optional hardware maximum heartbeat in the watchdog core.
The hardware maximum heartbeat can be lower than the maximum timeout.

Drivers can set the maximum hardware heartbeat value in the watchdog data
structure. If the configured timeout exceeds the maximum hardware heartbeat,
the watchdog core enables a timer function to assist sending keepalive
requests to the watchdog 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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Introduce an optional hardware maximum heartbeat in the watchdog core.
The hardware maximum heartbeat can be lower than the maximum timeout.

Drivers can set the maximum hardware heartbeat value in the watchdog data
structure. If the configured timeout exceeds the maximum hardware heartbeat,
the watchdog core enables a timer function to assist sending keepalive
requests to the watchdog 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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