at91sam9: watchdog: period

[nicolas.ferre@atmel.com (Nicolas Ferre)]

Le 15/05/2015 15:59, Bryan Evenson a ?crit :
> Jiri,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-arm-kernel [mailto:linux-arm-kernel-
>> bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Jir? Prchal
>> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 3:17 AM
>> To: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>> Cc: Boris Brezillon; Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard; Nicolas Ferre
>> Subject: at91sam9: watchdog: period
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm trying to discover what's wrong with watchdog on my board. I didn't find
>> anything about it on internet so I would ask you for help.
>> I have a board with sam9g25 and slow clock xtal 32768Hz with 10p capacitors
>> to GND. Frequency seems to be good since hwclock (RTC) runs pretty
>> precisely powered from backup and main power too (no NTP). But watchdog
>> time to reset is still 61s regardless default (16s) or 4s heartbeat setting. No
>> change to WDT_MR in bootstrap, so in Linux should work.
> 
> I have the same hardware setup and the watchdog timeout is 15
> seconds for me. For my kernel, I am using the Atmel fork at
> github.com/linux4sam/linux-at91, master branch at commit
> 5d5b332821753d616e65da6237f0a3330e59b98f.

FYI, I've just moved the master branch of our github to the newer
3.18-based branch: linux-3.18-at91.

Bye,


> Even though this is based upon
> the 3.10 kernel, there isn't much that has changed with regard to the
> RTC or watchdog between 3.10 and 4.03; Atmel has been good on
> backporting their changes to their fork. Maybe try an older kernel and
> see if the problem goes away?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bryan
> 
>> Here is dump:
>> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>> [    0.000000] Linux version 4.0.2_cpm9g25 (prchal at prchal) (gcc version 4.7.3
>> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-12ubuntu1) ) #10
>> PREEMPT Thu May 14 15:20:24 CEST 2015
>> [    0.000000] CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ),
>> cr=0005317f
>> [    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
>> [    0.000000] Machine model: AKsignal CDU9G25_v6
>> [    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
>> [    0.000000] AT91: Detected soc type: at91sam9x5
>> [    0.000000] AT91: Detected soc subtype: at91sam9g25
>> ...
>> [    4.669669] AT91: Starting after watchdog reset
>> [    4.675675] at91sam9_wdt: enabled (heartbeat=4 sec, nowayout=1)
>> ...
>>
>> / # killall watchdog
>> [ 1821.114114] watchdog watchdog0: nowayout prevents watchdog being
>> stopped!
>> / # [ 1821.123123] watchdog watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
>> [ 1882.294294] at91sam9_wdt: I will reset your machine !
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Jiri
>>
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> 


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Nicolas Ferre