From c2dc00e494cc476551b9beeb883910391ff59737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:57:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl This part add's the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Please note that the WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has to be set in the watchdog_info options field. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> --- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 3 +++ drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 2bdc6dc6e04c9f..abbcf2ce8f62e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ they are supported. These optional routines/operations are: the watchdog timer driver core does: to send a keepalive ping to the watchdog timer hardware it will either use the ping operation (when available) or the start operation (when the ping operation is not available). + (Note: the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl call will only be active when the + WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has been set in the option field on the watchdog's + info structure). * status: this routine checks the status of the watchdog timer device. The status of the device is reported with watchdog WDIOF_* status flags/bits. diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c index 00a6112930650d..2fb4cecd50d884 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c @@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, return put_user(val, p); case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS: return put_user(wdd->bootstatus, p); + case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE: + if (!(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + watchdog_ping(wdd); + return 0; default: return -ENOTTY; } -- GitLab