On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:39:44PM -0700, Tony Chung wrote:
>
> Observed that the Watchdog Timer Status bit can be set when the driver is
> loaded. Reset it during initialization. The time-out value must be set to 0
> explicitly in this case to prevent an immediate reset.
>
> Depending on the motherboard and with watchdog disabled in the BIOS, this
> reset problem can easily be reproduced by the following steps:
> 1. reboot the system
> 2. wait for 5+ minutes
> 3. don't start any watchdog server.
> 4. just run "modprobe w83627hf_wdt"
>
> If the system load the driver after 5 minutes, it rebooted immediately
> because of timer expired. For example, fsck could take more than 5 minutes
> to run,
> then the computer reboot as soon as the driver was loaded.
>
[ the above aplies to your system, so I would not add that to the commit log,
but that it up to Wim to decide ]
> Signed-off-by: Tony Chung <tonychun...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
> index 8f1111d..7eaa226 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
> @@ -168,14 +168,16 @@ static void w83627hf_init(void)
> pr_info("Watchdog already running. Resetting timeout to %d
> sec\n",
> wdt_get_timeout_secs(timeout));
> outb_p(timeout, WDT_EFDR); /* Write back to CRF6 */
> + } else {
> + outb_p(0, WDT_EFDR); /* disable to prevent reboot */
> }
>
> w83627hf_setup_crf5();
>
> outb_p(0xF7, WDT_EFER); /* Select CRF7 */
> t = inb_p(WDT_EFDR); /* read CRF7 */
> - t &= ~0xC0; /* disable keyboard & mouse turning off
> - watchdog */
> + t &= ~0xD0; /* clear timeout occurred and disable keyboard
> + & mouse turning off watchdog */
> outb_p(t, WDT_EFDR); /* Write back to CRF7 */
>
> w83627hf_unselect_wd_register();
> --
> 1.7.0.4
>
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