From e09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: José Pekkarinen Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:41:07 +0300 Subject: 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. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt') diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index a0438f395..d8b0d3367 100644 --- a/kernel/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ 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: -- cgit 1.2.3-korg