kernel/linux.git/Documentation/watchdog, branch v6.19.11

watchdog: Delete the cpu5wdt driver

2024-11-05T09:04:39+00:00

This driver has a number of issues (accesses arbitrary I/O ports without identifying the hardware, doesn't document what hardware it supports, suspiciously inconsistent locking model, doesn't implement WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT, potential integer overflow...) The driver was added in 2003 and there's no evidence that it has any recent user, all changes seem to be tree-wide, subsystem-wide, or the result of static code analysis. So I believe we should simply drop this legacy piece of code. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Message-ID: <20241011170710.484a257a@endymion.delvare> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241022114731.31f69c94@endymion.delvare Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

[tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out

2024-09-27T15:18:43+00:00

no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441 ("fs: remove no_llseek") To quote that commit, At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek - git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do sed -i '/\/d' $i done would do it. Unfortunately, that hadn't been done. Linus, could you do that now, so that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the form .llseek = no_llseek, so it's obviously safe. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: Capitalize Fahrenheit in watchdog-api.rst

2024-08-16T22:34:41+00:00

Capitalize "fahrenheit," a spelling mistake. Signed-off-by: David Hunter Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240807185332.61624-1-david.hunter.linux@gmail.com

Documentation: Fix typos

2023-08-18T17:29:03+00:00

Fix typos in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Format

2023-02-17T00:31:29+00:00

Add list format so that compiled documentation looks like it was intended to. Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210184247.221134-3-jerry.hoemann@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Reference

2023-02-17T00:31:29+00:00

The IPMI documentation moved to Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst. Update reference to reflect new location. Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210184247.221134-2-jerry.hoemann@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Docs/subsystem-apis: Remove '[The ]Linux' prefixes from titles of listed documents

2023-01-24T22:27:08+00:00

Some documents that listed on subsystem-apis have 'Linux' or 'The Linux' title prefixes. It's duplicated information, and makes finding the document of interest with human eyes not easy. Remove the prefixes from the titles. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Acked-by: Iwona Winiarska Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230122184834.181977-1-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

watchdog/pseries-wdt: initial support for H_WATCHDOG-based watchdog timers

2022-07-20T11:57:39+00:00

PAPR v2.12 defines a new hypercall, H_WATCHDOG. The hypercall permits guest control of one or more virtual watchdog timers. The timers have millisecond granularity. The guest is terminated when a timer expires. This patch adds a watchdog driver for these timers, "pseries-wdt". pseries_wdt_probe() currently assumes the existence of only one platform device and always assigns it watchdogNumber 1. If we ever expose more than one timer to userspace we will need to devise a way to assign a distinct watchdogNumber to each platform device at device registration time. Signed-off-by: Scott Cheloha Acked-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713202335.1217647-5-cheloha@linux.ibm.com

docs: watchdog: fix obsolete include file reference in pcwd

2021-03-07T00:36:51+00:00

The file linux/pcwd.h is not more present in the kernel sources. Its information is now moved into the file: include/uapi/linux/watchdog.h Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223111324.309285-1-f.suligoi@asem.it Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

watchdog: add support for adjusting last known HW keepalive time

2020-08-05T16:43:02+00:00

Certain watchdogs require the watchdog only to be pinged within a specific time window, pinging too early or too late cause the watchdog to fire. In cases where this sort of watchdog has been started before kernel comes up, we must adjust the watchdog keepalive window to match the actually running timer, so add a new driver API for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200717132958.14304-3-t-kristo@ti.com Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck