[PATCH v3 4/4] watchdog/pseries-wdt: initial support for H_WATCHDOG-based watchdog timers

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jul 26 17:14:03 AEST 2022


Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:11:41AM -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote:
>> 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?

powerpc.

It's been in next-test/next for about a week.

It's in linux-next today.

> The series includes non-watchdog changes, so my expectation was that some
> other tree would take it.

Yep, thanks for the ack.

cheers


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