History log of /linux-master/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_pretimeout.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 33e49453 13-Mar-2023 Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com>

watchdog: avoid usage of iterator after loop

If potentially no valid element is found, 'p' would contain an invalid
pointer past the iterator loop. To ensure 'p' is valid under any
circumstances, the kfree() should be within the loop body.

Additionally, Linus proposed to avoid any use of the list iterator
variable after the loop, in the attempt to move the list iterator
variable declaration into the macro to avoid any potential misuse after
the loop [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgRr_D8CB-D9Kg-c=EHreAsk5SqXPwr9Y7k9sA6cWXJ6w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301-watchdog-avoid-iter-after-loop-v2-1-8411e3bbe0de@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>


# 7b7d2fdc 03-Feb-2021 Curtis Klein <curtis.klein@hpe.com>

watchdog: Add hrtimer-based pretimeout feature

This adds the option to use a hrtimer to generate a watchdog pretimeout
event for hardware watchdogs that do not natively support watchdog
pretimeouts.

With this enabled, all watchdogs will appear to have pretimeout support
in userspace. If no pretimeout value is set, there will be no change in
the watchdog's behavior. If a pretimeout value is set for a specific
watchdog that does not have built-in pretimeout support, a timer will be
started that should fire at the specified time before the watchdog
timeout would occur. When the watchdog is successfully pinged, the timer
will be restarted. If the timer is allowed to fire it will generate a
pretimeout event. However because a software timer is used, it may not
be able to fire in every circumstance.

If the watchdog does support a pretimeout natively, that functionality
will be used instead of the hrtimer.

The general design of this feaure was inspired by the software watchdog,
specifically its own pretimeout implementation. However the software
watchdog and this feature are completely independent. They can be used
together; with or without CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT enabled.

The main advantage of using the hrtimer pretimeout with a hardware
watchdog, compared to running the software watchdog with a hardware
watchdog, is that if the hardware watchdog driver is unable to ping the
watchdog (e.g. due to a bus or communication error), then the hrtimer
pretimeout would still fire whereas the software watchdog would not.

Signed-off-by: Curtis Klein <curtis.klein@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1612383090-27110-1-git-send-email-curtis.klein@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>


# 3bb21781 11-May-2021 Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@canonical.com>

watchdog: Use sysfs_emit() and sysfs_emit_at() in "show" functions

Convert sprintf() in sysfs "show" functions to sysfs_emit() and
sysfs_emit_at() in order to check for buffer overruns in sysfs outputs.

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511061812.480172-1-juergh@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>


# 2874c5fd 27-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 89873a71 07-Oct-2016 Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>

watchdog: pretimeout: add pretimeout_available_governors attribute

The change adds an option to a user with CONFIG_WATCHDOG_SYSFS and
CONFIG_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV enabled to get information about all
registered watchdog pretimeout governors by reading watchdog device
attribute named "pretimeout_available_governors".

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>


# 53f96cee 07-Oct-2016 Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>

watchdog: pretimeout: add option to select a pretimeout governor in runtime

The change converts watchdog device attribute "pretimeout_governor" from
read-only to read-write type to allow users to select a desirable
watchdog pretimeout governor in runtime, e.g.

% echo -n panic > /sys/..../watchdog/watchdog0/pretimeout

To get this working a list of registered pretimeout governors is created
and a new helper function watchdog_pretimeout_governor_set() is exported
to watchdog_dev.c.

If a selected governor is gone, a watchdog device pretimeout notification
is delegated to a default built-in pretimeout governor.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>


# da0d12ff 07-Oct-2016 Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>

watchdog: pretimeout: add panic pretimeout governor

The change adds panic watchdog pretimeout governor, on watchdog
pretimeout event the kernel shall panic. In general watchdog
pretimeout event means that something essentially bad is going on the
system, for example a process scheduler stalls or watchdog feeder is
killed due to OOM, so printing out information attendant to panic and
before likely unavoidable reboot caused by a watchdog may help to
determine a root cause of the issue.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>


# ff84136c 07-Oct-2016 Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>

watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout governor framework

The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure,
its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog
pretimeout events, which may be generated by some watchdog devices.

A user selects a default watchdog pretimeout governor during
compilation stage.

Watchdogs with WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability now have one more device
attribute in sysfs, pretimeout_governor attribute is intended to display
the selected watchdog pretimeout governor.

The framework has no impact at runtime on watchdog devices with no
WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability set.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>