summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/drivers/watchdog
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEzequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com>2015-05-11 20:41:05 +0300
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2015-06-22 16:54:15 +0300
commitc1f263878e99e44c6e23fee0dfe01ef05ad83024 (patch)
tree889bdb164bc69be54df39ff51d1cfd5c146dcdbe /drivers/watchdog
parentdeb8d50eb40085d304b42a524d4ba326fcecc73d (diff)
downloadlinux-c1f263878e99e44c6e23fee0dfe01ef05ad83024.tar.xz
watchdog: imgpdc: Add some documentation about the timeout
This watchdog hardware can be configured in terms of power-of-two clock cycles. Therefore, the watchdog timeout configured by the user will be rounded-up to the next possible hardware timeout. This commit adds a comment explaining this. Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog')
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/imgpdc_wdt.c29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/imgpdc_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/imgpdc_wdt.c
index 56b8ebcc3775..0f73621827ab 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/imgpdc_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/imgpdc_wdt.c
@@ -9,6 +9,35 @@
*
* Based on drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c Copyright (c) 2013 Carlo Caione
* 2012 Henrik Nordstrom
+ *
+ * Notes
+ * -----
+ * The timeout value is rounded to the next power of two clock cycles.
+ * This is configured using the PDC_WDT_CONFIG register, according to this
+ * formula:
+ *
+ * timeout = 2^(delay + 1) clock cycles
+ *
+ * Where 'delay' is the value written in PDC_WDT_CONFIG register.
+ *
+ * Therefore, the hardware only allows to program watchdog timeouts, expressed
+ * as a power of two number of watchdog clock cycles. The current implementation
+ * guarantees that the actual watchdog timeout will be _at least_ the value
+ * programmed in the imgpdg_wdt driver.
+ *
+ * The following table shows how the user-configured timeout relates
+ * to the actual hardware timeout (watchdog clock @ 40000 Hz):
+ *
+ * input timeout | WD_DELAY | actual timeout
+ * -----------------------------------
+ * 10 | 18 | 13 seconds
+ * 20 | 19 | 26 seconds
+ * 30 | 20 | 52 seconds
+ * 60 | 21 | 104 seconds
+ *
+ * Albeit coarse, this granularity would suffice most watchdog uses.
+ * If the platform allows it, the user should be able to change the watchdog
+ * clock rate and achieve a finer timeout granularity.
*/
#include <linux/clk.h>