linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 04/16] arm64: dts: mt8195: Disable watchdog external reset signal

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 12:30:39 +0200
From:   AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
To:     Tinghan Shen <tinghan.shen@...iatek.com>,
        Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Chun-Jie Chen <chun-jie.chen@...iatek.com>,
        Weiyi Lu <weiyi.lu@...iatek.com>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Project_Global_Chrome_Upstream_Group@...iatek.com,
        Fengquan Chen <fengquan.chen@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 04/16] arm64: dts: mt8195: Disable watchdog external
 reset signal

Il 04/07/22 12:00, Tinghan Shen ha scritto:
> Disable external output reset signal in first round of watchdog reset
> to reserve wdt reset reason for debugging watchdog issue.

If my understanding of the commit decription is right, then we can clarify
that with something like: "[...] for debugging eventual watchdog issues".

Otherwise, if this implies that disable-extrst is needed to avoid losing
the reset reason stored in the WDT, you could say something like:

"Disable external output reset signal in the first round of watchdog reset
to avoid losing the reset reason stored in the watchdog registers"

After which:

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Fengquan Chen <fengquan.chen@...iatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tinghan Shen <tinghan.shen@...iatek.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8195.dtsi | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8195.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8195.dtsi
> index 066c14989708..436687ba826f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8195.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8195.dtsi
> @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@
>   		watchdog: watchdog@...07000 {
>   			compatible = "mediatek,mt8195-wdt",
>   				     "mediatek,mt6589-wdt";
> +			mediatek,disable-extrst;
>   			reg = <0 0x10007000 0 0x100>;
>   		};
>