linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: qcom: fine tune the max timeout value calculation

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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 12:07:17 +0530
From: Kathiravan Thirumoorthy <quic_kathirav@...cinc.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Bjorn Andersson
	<andersson@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Wim Van
 Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>
CC: <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: qcom: fine tune the max timeout value
 calculation



On 1/16/2024 8:32 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 1/16/24 00:22, Kathiravan Thirumoorthy wrote:
>> To determine the max_timeout value, the below calculation is used.
>>
>>     max_timeout = 0x10000000 / clk_rate
>>
>> cat 
>> /sys/devices/platform/soc@...017000.watchdog/watchdog/watchdog0/max_timeout
>> 8388
>>
>> However, this is not valid for all the platforms. IPQ SoCs starting from
>> IPQ40xx and recent Snapdragron SoCs also has the bark and bite time field
>> length of 20bits, which can hold max up to 32 seconds if the clk_rate is
>> 32KHz.
>>
>> If the user tries to configure the timeout more than 32s, then the value
>> will be truncated and the actual value will not be reflected in the HW.
>>
>> To avoid this, lets add a variable called max_tick_count in the device 
>> data,
>> which defines max counter value of the WDT controller. Using this, 
>> max-timeout
>> will be calculated in runtime for various WDT contorllers.
>>
>> With this change, we get the proper max_timeout as below and restricts
>> the user from configuring the timeout higher than this.
>>
>> cat 
>> /sys/devices/platform/soc@...017000.watchdog/watchdog/watchdog0/max_timeout
>> 32
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kathiravan Thirumoorthy <quic_kathirav@...cinc.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>


Guenter / Will, Can this be picked for v6.9? I don't see this in linux- 
next yet, so please consider this as a gentle reminder!

> 
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - drop the minimum timeout change from 30s to 32s
>> - Link to v1: 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111-wdt-v1-1-28c648b3b1f3@quicinc.com
>> ---
>>   drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c | 7 +++++--
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
>> index 9e790f0c2096..006f9c61aa64 100644
>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/qcom-wdt.c
>> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static const u32 reg_offset_data_kpss[] = {
>>   struct qcom_wdt_match_data {
>>       const u32 *offset;
>>       bool pretimeout;
>> +    u32 max_tick_count;
>>   };
>>   struct qcom_wdt {
>> @@ -177,11 +178,13 @@ static const struct watchdog_info 
>> qcom_wdt_pt_info = {
>>   static const struct qcom_wdt_match_data match_data_apcs_tmr = {
>>       .offset = reg_offset_data_apcs_tmr,
>>       .pretimeout = false,
>> +    .max_tick_count = 0x10000000U,
>>   };
>>   static const struct qcom_wdt_match_data match_data_kpss = {
>>       .offset = reg_offset_data_kpss,
>>       .pretimeout = true,
>> +    .max_tick_count = 0xFFFFFU,
>>   };
>>   static int qcom_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> @@ -236,7 +239,7 @@ static int qcom_wdt_probe(struct platform_device 
>> *pdev)
>>        */
>>       wdt->rate = clk_get_rate(clk);
>>       if (wdt->rate == 0 ||
>> -        wdt->rate > 0x10000000U) {
>> +        wdt->rate > data->max_tick_count) {
>>           dev_err(dev, "invalid clock rate\n");
>>           return -EINVAL;
>>       }
>> @@ -260,7 +263,7 @@ static int qcom_wdt_probe(struct platform_device 
>> *pdev)
>>       wdt->wdd.ops = &qcom_wdt_ops;
>>       wdt->wdd.min_timeout = 1;
>> -    wdt->wdd.max_timeout = 0x10000000U / wdt->rate;
>> +    wdt->wdd.max_timeout = data->max_tick_count / wdt->rate;
>>       wdt->wdd.parent = dev;
>>       wdt->layout = data->offset;
>>
>> ---
>> base-commit: 9e21984d62c56a0f6d1fc6f76b646212cfd7fe88
>> change-id: 20240111-wdt-5bd079ecf14d
>>
>> Best regards,
>