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authorJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300
committerJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300
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treed10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
parentf93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff)
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page. During the rebasing, the following patch collided: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85). Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the source already. Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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+++ b/kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ The watchdog_unregister_device routine deregisters a registered watchdog timer
device. The parameter of this routine is the pointer to the registered
watchdog_device structure.
+The watchdog subsystem includes an registration deferral mechanism,
+which allows you to register an watchdog as early as you wish during
+the boot process.
+
The watchdog device structure looks like this:
struct watchdog_device {
@@ -52,6 +56,7 @@ struct watchdog_device {
void *driver_data;
struct mutex lock;
unsigned long status;
+ struct list_head deferred;
};
It contains following fields:
@@ -80,6 +85,8 @@ It contains following fields:
information about the status of the device (Like: is the watchdog timer
running/active, is the nowayout bit set, is the device opened via
the /dev/watchdog interface or not, ...).
+* deferred: entry in wtd_deferred_reg_list which is used to
+ register early initialized watchdogs.
The list of watchdog operations is defined as: