Re: [PATCH 2/4] watchdog: hpwdt: Claim NMI from iLO

From: Jerry Hoemann
Date: Wed Aug 08 2018 - 15:12:14 EST


On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 06:09:05PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 08/02/2018 02:15 PM, Jerry Hoemann wrote:
> > The hwpdt driver is overloaded for handling both the iLO
> > watchdog and the explicit "Generate NMI to System" virutal
> > button.
> >
> > Claim the iLO NMI virtual button even if we are not claiming
> > the iLO watchdog pretimeout.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@xxxxxxx>
>
> Guess you know what you are doing here.
>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Unfortunately the underlying documentation isn't publically available.
I am going loosen the check in version two, but current upstream
is definitely wrong for reasons above.

>
> > ---
> > drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> > index 369022d..8a85ddd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> > @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static int hpwdt_pretimeout(unsigned int ulReason, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > if (ilo5 && ulReason == NMI_UNKNOWN && !mynmi)
> > return NMI_DONE;
> > - if (ilo5 && !pretimeout)
> > + if (ilo5 && !pretimeout && !(mynmi & 0x4))
> > return NMI_DONE;
> > hpwdt_stop();
> >

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