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From: alexandre.belloni@free-electrons•com (Alexandre Belloni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] watchdog: at91sam9: request the irq with IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:55:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150309075546.GY3989@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1615214.0rkGfM1gZL@vostro.rjw.lan>

Hi,

On 08/03/2015 at 02:12:53 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote :
> > > I think you misunderstood, that is exactly the expected behaviour. This
> > > is hardware defined. Once the watchdog is started, nobody can stop it.
> > > Trying to change the mode register will result in a reset of the
> > > SoC.
> > 
> > Well, it boils down to "what is stronger". Desire to suspend the
> > system, or desire to reboot the system.
> > 
> > It is "echo mem > state", not "echo reboot > state".
> > 
> > > It is documented in the datasheet and any user wanting another behaviour
> > > is out of luck.
> > 
> > Actaully, your platform should just refuse to enter suspend-to-RAM
> > when hw watchdog is enabled.
> 
> Quite likely, depending on how exactly the suspend is implemented.
>

We've had absolutely zero complain on that. It is quite clear in the
datasheet that failing to refresh the watchdog once started will lead to
a reset and that it is impossible to stop.
It is actually quite convenient to also ensure that you can actually
wake up from suspend because that can obviously go wrong.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-02  9:18 [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: at91: fix irq_pm_install_action WARNING Boris Brezillon
2015-03-02  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] PM / wakeup: export pm_system_wakeup symbol Boris Brezillon
2015-03-02  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] rtc: at91sam9: rework wakeup and interrupt handling Boris Brezillon
2015-03-04 18:23   ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-02  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] rtc: at91rm9200: " Boris Brezillon
2015-03-02  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] clk: at91: implement suspend/resume for the PMC irqchip Boris Brezillon
2015-03-09 22:34   ` Mike Turquette
2015-03-02  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] watchdog: at91sam9: request the irq with IRQF_NO_SUSPEND Boris Brezillon
2015-03-02 14:10   ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-04 18:38   ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-04 21:41     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-05 10:57       ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-05 15:10         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-05 16:32           ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-06  0:29             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-06 11:06               ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-06 12:39                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-06 13:10                   ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-07  9:12                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-07  9:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-05  8:53     ` Boris Brezillon
2015-03-05 10:53       ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-05 11:17         ` Boris Brezillon
2015-03-05 11:31           ` Boris Brezillon
2015-03-05 11:53           ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-07  9:18             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-07 10:20               ` Sylvain Rochet
2015-03-07 10:39                 ` Pavel Machek
2015-03-07 10:59                   ` Sylvain Rochet
2015-03-07 11:06                   ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-07 11:29                     ` Pavel Machek
2015-03-07 11:46                       ` Sylvain Rochet
2015-03-08  1:12                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-09  7:55                         ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2015-03-09 14:30                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-10 21:33                             ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-10 22:31                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-10 22:33                                 ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-11  1:03                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-11  7:33                                     ` Boris Brezillon
2015-03-08  1:11                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-11  8:38                       ` Boris Brezillon
2015-03-11 11:17                         ` Nicolas Ferre
2015-03-02  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] tty: serial: atmel: rework interrupt and wakeup handling Boris Brezillon
2015-03-03  8:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: at91: fix irq_pm_install_action WARNING Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-03 15:35 ` Nicolas Ferre
2015-03-04  1:43   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-04 18:43 ` Mark Rutland

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