Hi Guenter,

On 5/22/2018 1:54 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Ray Jui wrote:

quoted

If the watchdog hardware is already enabled during the boot process,
when the Linux watchdog driver loads, it should reset the watchdog and
tell the watchdog framework. As a result, ping can be generated from
the watchdog framework, until the userspace watchdog daemon takes over
control

Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Olovyannikov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
---
  drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c
index 1484609..408ffbe 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
  	/* control register masks */
  	#define	INT_ENABLE	(1 << 0)
  	#define	RESET_ENABLE	(1 << 1)
+	#define	ENABLE_MASK	(INT_ENABLE | RESET_ENABLE)
  #define WDTINTCLR		0x00C
  #define WDTRIS			0x010
  #define WDTMIS			0x014

@@ -74,6 +75,18 @@ module_param(nowayout, bool, 0);
  MODULE_PARM_DESC(nowayout,
  		"Set to 1 to keep watchdog running after device release");
  
+/* returns true if wdt is running; otherwise returns false */
+static bool wdt_is_running(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
+{
+	struct sp805_wdt *wdt = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdd);
+
+	if ((readl_relaxed(wdt->base + WDTCONTROL) & ENABLE_MASK) ==
+	    ENABLE_MASK)
+		return true;
+	else
+		return false;

	return !!(readl_relaxed(wdt->base + WDTCONTROL) & ENABLE_MASK));

Note ENABLE_MASK contains two bits (INT_ENABLE and RESET_ENABLE); 
therefore, a simple !!(expression) would not work? That is, the masked 
result needs to be compared against the mask again to ensure both bits 
are set, right?

Thanks,

Ray