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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND v8 2/2] watchdog: Add driver for Gunyah Watchdog
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On 5/5/2026 8:56 AM, Pavan Kondeti wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 07:37:12AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 4/29/26 23:15, Pavan Kondeti wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 09:11:48AM -0500, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 11:16:31AM +0530, Pavankumar Kondeti wrote:
>>>>> From: Hrishabh Rajput <hrishabh.rajput@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Qualcomm SoCs running under the Gunyah hypervisor, access to watchdog
>>>>> through MMIO is not available on all platforms. Depending on the
>>>>> hypervisor configuration, the watchdog is either fully emulated or
>>>>> exposed via ARM's SMC Calling Conventions (SMCCC) through the Vendor
>>>>> Specific Hypervisor Service Calls space.
>>>>>
>>>>> Add driver to support the SMC-based watchdog provided by the Gunyah
>>>>> Hypervisor. Device registration is done in the QCOM SCM driver after
>>>>> checks to restrict the watchdog initialization to Qualcomm devices
>>>>> running under Gunyah.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gunyah watchdog is not a hardware but an SMC-based vendor-specific
>>>>> hypervisor interface provided by the Gunyah hypervisor. The design
>>>>> involving QCOM SCM driver for registering the platform device has been
>>>>> devised to avoid adding non-hardware nodes to devicetree.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested-by: Shivendra Pratap <shivendra.pratap@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>>> Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
>>>>> Tested-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hrishabh Rajput <hrishabh.rajput@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pavan.kondeti@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>> Guenter, there's no build-time dependency between the two patches. I'm
>>>> applying patch 1 through the qcom tree, please apply this patch through
>>>> the watchdog tree.
>>>>
>>> Thanks Bjorn. I noticed that 1/2 is available in v7.1-rc1 , however 2/2
>>> is missing. Guenter, can you please pick it up for next release?
>>>
>> I don't send watchdog patches upstream; that has always been handled by Wim.
>>
>> Guenter
>>
>>
> Thanks Guenter for the reply.
>
> Wim,
>
> Can you please include this driver (2/2 PATCH) for the next release? Please let us
> know if I need to do anything else?

Pavan,

Please look at the announcement from the Guenter[1] and I see this
change in the watchdog-next branch of Guenter's tree[2].

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-watchdog/cc68acee-484b-4fa5-a3f3-6add81d63d22@oss.qualcomm.com/T/#m11e748ea57c88853b8bdc4e41cac08b7c1cd1b77

[2]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git/log/?h=watchdog-next

Thanks,

Kathiravan T.

>
> Thanks,
> Pavan
>

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