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Commit 04b1a62e authored by Doug Anderson's avatar Doug Anderson Committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
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watchdog: dw_wdt: keepalive the watchdog at write time

If you've got code that does this in a tight loop
  1. Open watchdog
  2. Send 'expect close'
  3. Close watchdog
...you'll eventually trigger a watchdog reset.  You can reproduce this
by using daisydog (1) and running:
  while true; do daisydog -c > /dev/null; done

The problem is that each time you write to the watchdog for 'expect
close' it moves the timer .5 seconds out.  The timer thus never fires
and never pats the watchdog for you.

1: http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/third_party/daisydog.git



Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
parent 7fb466a7
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