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* [U-Boot] [PATCH PATCH v1] watchdog: Fix Watchdog Reset while in U-Boot Prompt
@ 2016-07-13 10:56 Andreas J. Reichel
  2016-08-01  1:01 ` Simon Glass
  2016-10-18 22:47 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v1] watchdog: Fix Watchdog Reset while in U-Boot Prompt Tom Rini
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Andreas J. Reichel @ 2016-07-13 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hardware: CM-FX6 Module from Compulab

This patch fixes unwanted watchdog resets while the user enters
a command at the U-Boot prompt.

As found on the CM-FX6 board from Compulab, when having enabled the
watchdog, a missing WATCHDOG_RESET call in common/console.c causes
this and alike boards to reset when the watchdog's timeout has
elapsed while waiting at the U-Boot prompt.

Despite the user could press several keys within the watchdog
timeout limit, the while loop in cli_readline.c, line 261, does only
call WATCHDOG_RESET if first == 1, which gets set to 0 in the 1st
loop iteration. This leads to a watchdog timeout no matter if the
user presses keys or not.

Although, this affects other boards as well as it touches
common/console.c, the macro WATCHDOG_RESET expands to {} if watchdog
support isn't configured. Hence, there's no harm caused and no need to
surround it by #ifdef in this case.

 * Symptom:
   U-Boot resets after watchdog times out when in commandline prompt
   and watchdog is enabled.

 * Reasoning:
   When U-Boot shows the commandline prompt, the following function
   call stack is executed while waiting for a keypress:

   common/main.c:
                    main_loop          => common/cli.c: cli_loop() =>
   common/cli_hush.c:
                    parse_file_outer   => parse_stream_outer       =>
                    parse_stream       => b_getch(i)               =>
                    i->get(i)          => file_get                 =>
                    get_user_input     => cmdedit_read_input       =>
                    uboot_cli_readline =>
   common/cli_readline.c:
                    cli_readline       => cli_readline_into_buffer =>
                    cread_line         => getcmd_getch (== getc)   =>
   common/console.c:
                    fgetc              => console_tstc

   common/console.c:
   (with CONFIG_CONSOLE_MUX is set)

   - in console_tstc line 181:
   If dev->tstc(dev) returns 0, the global tstcdev variable doesn't get
   set. This is the case if no character is in the serial buffer.

   - in fgetc(int file), line 297:
   Program flow keeps looping because tstcdev does not get set.
   Therefore WATCHDOG_RESET is not called, as mx_serial_tstc from
   drivers/serial/serial_mxc.c does not call it.

 * Solution:
   Add WATCHDOG_RESET into the loop of console_tstc.

   Note: Macro expands to {} if not configured, so no #ifdef is needed.

 * Comment:

Signed-off-by: Christian Storm <christian.storm@tngtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas J. Reichel <Andreas.Reichel@tngtech.com>
---

 common/console.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/console.c b/common/console.c
index 12293f3..054b6cd 100644
--- a/common/console.c
+++ b/common/console.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <stdio_dev.h>
 #include <exports.h>
 #include <environment.h>
+#include <watchdog.h>
 
 DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
 
@@ -294,6 +295,7 @@ int fgetc(int file)
 		 * Effectively poll for input wherever it may be available.
 		 */
 		for (;;) {
+			WATCHDOG_RESET();
 			/*
 			 * Upper layer may have already called tstc() so
 			 * check for that first.
-- 
2.8.2

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2016-07-13 10:56 [U-Boot] [PATCH PATCH v1] watchdog: Fix Watchdog Reset while in U-Boot Prompt Andreas J. Reichel
2016-08-01  1:01 ` Simon Glass
2016-08-01 11:49   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Andreas J. Reichel
2016-09-06  1:04     ` Simon Glass
2016-09-19 11:59       ` Andreas Reichel
2016-10-15  1:45         ` Tom Rini
2016-08-01 13:32   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/1] Fix U-Boot Prompt on CM-FX6 with enabled watchdog Andreas J. Reichel
2016-10-18 22:47 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v1] watchdog: Fix Watchdog Reset while in U-Boot Prompt Tom Rini

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