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SubjectRe: [PATCH] watchdog: qcom: Move suspend/resume to suspend_late/resume_early
On 2021-05-24 09:33, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 5/23/21 7:38 PM, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
>> On 2021-04-20 11:13, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
>>> Hi Guenter,
>>>
>>> On 2021-03-11 01:53, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 01:50:04AM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
>>>>> During suspend/resume usecases and tests, it is common to see
>>>>> issues
>>>>> such as lockups either in suspend path or resume path because of
>>>>> the
>>>>> bugs in the corresponding device driver pm handling code. In such
>>>>> cases,
>>>>> it is important that watchdog is active to make sure that we either
>>>>> receive a watchdog pretimeout notification or a bite causing reset
>>>>> instead of a hang causing us to hard reset the machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are good reasons as to why we need this because:
>>>>>
>>>>> * We can have a watchdog pretimeout governor set to panic in which
>>>>>   case we can have a backtrace which would help identify the issue
>>>>>   with the particular driver and cause a normal reboot.
>>>>>
>>>>> * Even in case where there is no pretimeout support, a watchdog
>>>>>   bite is still useful because some firmware has debug support to
>>>>> dump
>>>>>   CPU core context on watchdog bite for post-mortem analysis.
>>>>>
>>>>> * One more usecase which comes to mind is of warm reboot. In case
>>>>> we
>>>>>   hard reset the target, a cold reboot could be induced resulting
>>>>> in
>>>>>   lose of ddr contents thereby losing all the debug info.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, the watchdog pm callback just invokes the usual suspend
>>>>> and resume callback which do not have any special ordering in the
>>>>> sense that a watchdog can be suspended before the buggy device
>>>>> driver
>>>>> suspend callback and watchdog resume can happen after the buggy
>>>>> device
>>>>> driver resume callback. This would mean that the watchdog will not
>>>>> be
>>>>> active when the buggy driver cause the lockups thereby hanging the
>>>>> system. So to make sure this doesn't happen, move the watchdog pm
>>>>> to
>>>>> use late/early system pm callbacks which will ensure that the
>>>>> watchdog
>>>>> is suspended late and resumed early so that it can catch such
>>>>> issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan
>>>>> <saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org>
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Gentle Ping. I don't see this in linux-next or linux-watchdog, please
>>> let
>>> me know if anything is pending from my side.
>>>
>>
>> Gentle Ping !!
>>
>
> It is my watchdog-next branch. At some point Wim will hopefully pick it
> up.
>

Ah I see, thanks for the info.

-Sai

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