On Thu, 7 May 2015 15:09:24 -0700
Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org> wrote:

> 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: Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
> index 3fa2f19..ff5d734 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
> @@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static ssize_t dw_wdt_write(struct file *filp, const char 
> __user *buf,
>       }
>  
>       dw_wdt_set_next_heartbeat();
> +     dw_wdt_keepalive();
>       mod_timer(&dw_wdt.timer, jiffies + WDT_TIMEOUT);
>  
>       return len;

Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszh...@marvell.com>
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