[PATCH v3 4/4] watchdog/pseries-wdt: initial support for H_WATCHDOG-based watchdog timers
Scott Cheloha
cheloha at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jul 26 02:11:41 AEST 2022
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 01:50:14PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 7/13/22 13:23, Scott Cheloha wrote:
> > PAPR v2.12 defines a new hypercall, H_WATCHDOG. The hypercall permits
> > guest control of one or more virtual watchdog timers. The timers have
> > millisecond granularity. The guest is terminated when a timer
> > expires.
> >
> > This patch adds a watchdog driver for these timers, "pseries-wdt".
> >
> > pseries_wdt_probe() currently assumes the existence of only one
> > platform device and always assigns it watchdogNumber 1. If we ever
> > expose more than one timer to userspace we will need to devise a way
> > to assign a distinct watchdogNumber to each platform device at device
> > registration time.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Cheloha <cheloha at linux.ibm.com>
>
> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Guenter, Michael,
Which tree is taking this series?
watchdog-next or PPC development?
-Scott
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