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2011-11-05Documentation: watchdog: add guide how to convert drivers to new frameworkWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add minimum and max timeoutWim Van Sebroeck
Add min_timeout (minimum timeout) and max_timeout values so that the framework can check if the new timeout value is between the minimum and maximum timeout values. If both values are 0, then the framework will leave the check for the watchdog device driver itself. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add ioctl callWim Van Sebroeck
Add support for extra ioctl calls by adding a ioctl watchdog operation. This operation will be called before we do our own handling of ioctl commands. This way we can override the internal ioctl command handling and we can also add extra ioctl commands. The ioctl watchdog operation should return the appropriate error codes or -ENOIOCTLCMD if the ioctl command should be handled through the internal ioctl handling of the framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout featureWim Van Sebroeck
Add support for the nowayout feature to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. This feature prevents the watchdog timer from being stopped. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add Magic Close featureWim Van Sebroeck
Add support for the Magic Close feature to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and ↵Wim Van Sebroeck
WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl This part add's the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctlWim Van Sebroeck
This part add's the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctlWim Van Sebroeck
This part add's the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Please note that the WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has to be set in the watchdog_info options field. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic ioctl functionalityWim Van Sebroeck
This part add's the basic ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. The supported ioctl call's are: WDIOC_GETSUPPORT WDIOC_GETSTATUS WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-07-28watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic frameworkWim Van Sebroeck
The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's. It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the operations that go with it. This is the introduction of this framework. This part supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's open, release and write functionality as defined in the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will follow in the next set of patches. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2010-07-01watchdog: docs: add an entry for imx2_wdtFabio Estevam
Add an entry for imx2_wdt in watchdog-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-05-25watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driverRandy Dunlap
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific files already. Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-04-06[WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl.James Hogan
In the watchdog-test program and watchdog-api.txt, pass the values to the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl as a pointer to an integer containing the values intead of directly in the third ioctl argument. The actual watchdog drivers in drivers/watchdog don't read the options directly from the argument but use get_user and copy_from_user. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-03[WATCHDOG] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync()Giel van Schijndel
Don't terminate the watchdog daemon when fsync() fails because no watchdog driver actually implements the fsync() syscall. Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2009-09-23Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGSLadinu Chandrasinghe
Fix up -Wmissing-prototypes in compileable userspace code, mainly under Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Ladinu Chandrasinghe <ladinu.pub@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trevor Keith <tsrk@tsrk.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-23[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI priority optionTom Mingarelli
Add a priority option so that the user can choose if we do the NMI first or last. Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2009-06-18[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI sourcingThomas Mingarelli
Add NMI sourcing functionality (Can only be active if nmi_watchdog is inactive). Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-10-30.gitignore updatesAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12docsrc: build Documentation/ sourcesRandy Dunlap
Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them. This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code instead of bad examples. Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir. Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol. Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the Documentation/ sources. Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system. However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need to be installed (for userspace builds). Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32, sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-18[WATCHDOG] clarify watchdog operation in documentationAndrew Dyer
It was not clear what the difference is/was between the nowayout feature and the Magic Close feature. Signed-off-by: "Andrew Dyer" <amdyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-10-23[WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c: improve this codeWANG Cong
Make some improvements for Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-16[WATCHDOG] Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/watchdog/Jesper Juhl
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/watchdog/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-05-24[WATCHDOG] clean-up watchdog documentationAlan Cox
Random sampling of some URLs in the Documentation tree to see how many were stale found that one watchdog driver was now a porn site. In fact if the watchdogs document directory was any older it would be written in latin Clean it up somewhat and add Last reviewed headers, something all the Documentation could do with IMHO. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-12[WATCHDOG] includes for sample watchdog program.Jean Delvare
Add missing includes to sample watchdog program. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-10-03Fix "can not" in Documentation and KconfigMatt LaPlante
Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot understand why this rule exists. This patch fixes "can not" in several Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-28[WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog updateRandy Dunlap
Documentation/watchdog/: Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/ directory in their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files. This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and to janitors who would update them if they were more visible. Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if they should be removed. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-06-20[WATCHDOG] add WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT ioctlWim Van Sebroeck
Some watchdog drivers have the ability to report the remaining time before the system will reboot. With the WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT ioctl you can now read the time left before the watchdog would reboot your system. The following drivers support this new IOCTL: i8xx_tco.c, pcwd_pci.c and pcwd_usb.c . Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-06-20[WATCHDOG] Pre-Timeout flagsCorey Minyard
Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which occurs some time before the real timeout. The pretimeout can be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead of a blind reboot). Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-05-15[WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt - fix watchdog daemonRandy Dunlap
Fix the simple watchdog daemon program in Doc/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt to build cleanly. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Added support for the Book-E style Watchdog TimerKumar Gala
PowerPC 40x and Book-E processors support a watchdog timer at the processor core level. The timer has implementation dependent timeout frequencies that can be configured by software. One the first Watchdog timeout we get a critical exception. It is left to board specific code to determine what should happen at this point. If nothing is done and another timeout period expires the processor may attempt to reset the machine. Command line parameters: wdt=0 : disable watchdog (default) wdt=1 : enable watchdog wdt_period=N : N sets the value of the Watchdog Timer Period. The Watchdog Timer Period meaning is implementation specific. Check User Manual for the processor for more details. This patch is based off of work done by Takeharu Kato. Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!