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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Make watchdog bark
 interrupt edge triggered
To:     Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>,
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        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@quicinc.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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Quoting Douglas Anderson (2023-11-03 16:34:27)
> On sc7180 when the watchdog timer fires your logs get filled with:
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>   ...
>   watchdog0: pretimeout event
>
> If you're using console-ramoops to debug crashes the above gets quite
> annoying since it blows away any other log messages that might have
> been there.
>
> The issue is that the "bark" interrupt (AKA the "pretimeout"
> interrupt) remains high until the watchdog is pet. Since we've got
> things configured as "level" triggered we'll keep getting interrupted
> over and over.
>
> Let's switch to edge triggered. Now we'll get one interrupt when the
> "bark" interrupt goes off we'll get one interrupt and won't get

"We'll get one" twice?

> another one until the "bark" interrupt is cleared and asserts again.
>
> This matches how many older Qualcomm SoCs have things configured.
>
> Fixes: 28cc13e4060c ("arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Add watchdog bark interrupt")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>