From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 11:01:05 +0100 Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/5] watchdog: Add API to trigger reboots In-Reply-To: <1398958893-30049-2-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> References: <1398958893-30049-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1398958893-30049-2-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> Message-ID: <20140502100105.GC17370@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Guenter, This looks pretty sensible to me (and the arm/arm64 bits look fine too), but I have one question below... On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:41:29PM +0100, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Some hardware implements reboot through its watchdog hardware, > for example by triggering a watchdog timeout. Platform specific > code starts to spread into watchdog drivers, typically by setting > pointers to a callback functions which is then called from the > platform reset handler. > > To simplify code and provide a unified API to trigger reboots by > watchdog drivers, provide a single API to trigger such reboots > through the watchdog subsystem. > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck > --- > drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/watchdog.h | 11 +++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c > index cec9b55..4ec6e2f 100644 > --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c > @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ > static DEFINE_IDA(watchdog_ida); > static struct class *watchdog_class; > > +static struct watchdog_device *wdd_reboot_dev; > + > +void watchdog_do_reboot(enum reboot_mode mode, const char *cmd) > +{ > + if (wdd_reboot_dev) { > + if (wdd_reboot_dev->ops->reboot) > + wdd_reboot_dev->ops->reboot(wdd_reboot_dev, mode, cmd); > + } > +} What reboot_mode values would you expect a watchdog to support other than REBOOT_HARD? Also, is the cmd even useful here? Will