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From: "Renê de Souza Pinto" <rene@renesp.com.br>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org (open list:WATCHDOG DEVICE
	DRIVERS), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: "Renê de Souza Pinto" <rene@renesp.com.br>
Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: wdat_wdt: map registers that fall inside ACPI NVS
Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2026 11:23:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804092337.3556947-1-rene@renesp.com.br> (raw)

Some firmwares describe WDAT registers inside memory ranges marked as
ACPI NVS in the E820 map, failing with -EBUSY during probe, leaving the
hardware watchdog unserviced and triggering periodic system resets.

This issue was observed on a OnLogic Karbon 524 device (when watchdog is
enabled in BIOS):

wdat_wdt wdat_wdt: error -EBUSY: can't request region for resource [mem 0x63df7a98]
wdat_wdt wdat_wdt: probe with driver wdat_wdt failed with error -16

This commit fixes this issue by falling back to devm_memremap() when
devm_ioremap_resource() fails with -EBUSY on an ACPI NVS region.

Signed-off-by: Renê de Souza Pinto <rene@renesp.com.br>
---
 drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c
index dd3c2d69c9df..a56224cf8d22 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
+#include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/ioport.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/pm.h>
@@ -309,6 +311,33 @@ static struct watchdog_ops wdat_wdt_ops = {
 	.set_timeout = wdat_wdt_set_timeout,
 };
 
+static void __iomem *wdat_wdt_map_mem(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
+{
+	resource_size_t size = resource_size(res);
+	void __iomem *reg;
+	void *addr;
+
+	/* Try standard reservation + ioremap first */
+	reg = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res);
+	if (!IS_ERR(reg) || PTR_ERR(reg) != -EBUSY)
+		return reg;
+
+	/* If busy, check if conflict is due to ACPI NVS memory */
+	if (region_intersects(res->start, size, IORESOURCE_MEM,
+			      IORES_DESC_ACPI_NV_STORAGE) != REGION_INTERSECTS)
+		return reg; /* Real conflict, return -EBUSY */
+
+	dev_warn(dev, "%pR is inside ACPI NVS, mapping without reservation\n", res);
+
+	addr = devm_memremap(dev, res->start, size, MEMREMAP_WB);
+	if (IS_ERR(addr)) {
+		dev_err(dev, "failed to map resource %pR\n", res);
+		return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(addr));
+	}
+
+	return (void __iomem __force *)addr;
+}
+
 static int wdat_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
@@ -362,7 +391,7 @@ static int wdat_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 		res = &pdev->resource[i];
 		if (resource_type(res) == IORESOURCE_MEM) {
-			reg = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res);
+			reg = wdat_wdt_map_mem(dev, res);
 			if (IS_ERR(reg)) {
 				ret = PTR_ERR(reg);
 				goto out_put_table;
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-04  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-04  9:23 Renê de Souza Pinto [this message]
2026-08-04  9:40 ` [PATCH] watchdog: wdat_wdt: map registers that fall inside ACPI NVS sashiko-bot
2026-08-04 10:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Renê de Souza Pinto
2026-08-06 21:27   ` Guenter Roeck

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