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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] watchdog: Add ChromeOS EC-based watchdog driver
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To: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>, Lukasz Majczak <lma@chromium.org>
Cc: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>,
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On 1/18/24 19:42, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:53:23PM +0000, Lukasz Majczak wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
>> index 7d22051b15a2..4700b218340f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
>> @@ -181,6 +181,17 @@ config BD957XMUF_WATCHDOG
>>   	  watchdog. Alternatively say M to compile the driver as a module,
>>   	  which will be called bd9576_wdt.
>>   
>> +config CROS_EC_WATCHDOG
>> +	tristate "ChromeOS EC-based watchdog"
>> +	select WATCHDOG_CORE
>> +	depends on CROS_EC
>> +	help
>> +	  Watchdog driver for Chromebook devices equipped with embedded controller.
>> +	  Trigger event is recorded in EC and checked on the subsequent boot.
> 
> Perhaps unrelated to the patch, but I'm curious what the mechanism is.  Does
> it use any existing paths for checking the saved events in EC?  What it does
> if there is a saved WDT reset event?
> 

Reporting the reason of the previous reset/restart is part of the watchdog API.

>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/cros_ec_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/cros_ec_wdt.c
> [...]
>> +static int cros_ec_wdt_ping(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
>> +{
> [...]
>> +	arg.req.command = EC_HANG_DETECT_CMD_RELOAD;
>> +	ret = cros_ec_wdt_send_cmd(cros_ec, &arg);
>> +	if (ret < 0)
>> +		dev_dbg(wdd->parent, "Failed to ping watchdog (%d)", ret);
> 
> I think this would be worth dev_info() or dev_warn()?
> 
>> +static int cros_ec_wdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
>> +{
> [...]
>> +	/* Prepare watchdog on EC side */
>> +	arg.req.command = EC_HANG_DETECT_CMD_SET_TIMEOUT;
>> +	arg.req.reboot_timeout_sec = wdd->timeout;
>> +	ret = cros_ec_wdt_send_cmd(cros_ec, &arg);
>> +	if (ret < 0)
>> +		dev_dbg(wdd->parent, "Failed to start watchdog (%d)", ret);
> 
> Same here: dev_info() or dev_warn()?
> 

We had that before. It is just noise. If it fails, it will likely
fail continuously, causing log spam. We don't do that kind of
continuous error messages for other watchdog drivers and should not
start doing it here.

Thanks,
Guenter