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* [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 01/12] ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot
@ 2020-03-05 17:15 Sasha Levin
  2020-03-05 17:15 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 02/12] HID: apple: Add support for recent firmware on Magic Keyboards Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2020-03-05 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, stable
  Cc: Jean Delvare, Mika Westerberg, Rafael J . Wysocki, Sasha Levin,
	linux-doc, linux-acpi

From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit 3f9e12e0df012c4a9a7fd7eb0d3ae69b459d6b2c ]

In case the WDAT interface is broken, give the user an option to
ignore it to let a native driver bind to the watchdog device instead.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |  4 ++++
 drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c        | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index b2d2f4539a3fe..e05d65d6fcb68 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -335,6 +335,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
 			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
 
+	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
+			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
+			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
+
 	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
 			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
 			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c
index 396e358c2cee0..0c9d5f0fcf56c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c
@@ -58,12 +58,14 @@ static bool acpi_watchdog_uses_rtc(const struct acpi_table_wdat *wdat)
 }
 #endif
 
+static bool acpi_no_watchdog;
+
 static const struct acpi_table_wdat *acpi_watchdog_get_wdat(void)
 {
 	const struct acpi_table_wdat *wdat = NULL;
 	acpi_status status;
 
-	if (acpi_disabled)
+	if (acpi_disabled || acpi_no_watchdog)
 		return NULL;
 
 	status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_WDAT, 0,
@@ -91,6 +93,14 @@ bool acpi_has_watchdog(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_has_watchdog);
 
+/* ACPI watchdog can be disabled on boot command line */
+static int __init disable_acpi_watchdog(char *str)
+{
+	acpi_no_watchdog = true;
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("acpi_no_watchdog", disable_acpi_watchdog);
+
 void __init acpi_watchdog_init(void)
 {
 	const struct acpi_wdat_entry *entries;
-- 
2.20.1


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2020-03-05 17:15 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 03/12] HID: core: fix off-by-one memset in hid_report_raw_event() Sasha Levin
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2020-03-05 17:15 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 07/12] cfg80211: check reg_rule for NULL in handle_channel_custom() Sasha Levin
2020-03-05 17:15 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 08/12] net: ks8851-ml: Fix IRQ handling and locking Sasha Levin
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