watchdog: Add support for minimum time between heartbeats

Some watchdogs require a minimum time between heartbeats.
Examples are the watchdogs in DA9062 and AT91SAM9x.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <[email protected]>
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Guenter Roeck 2016-02-28 13:12:18 -08:00 • committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct watchdog_device {
unsigned int timeout;
unsigned int min_timeout;
unsigned int max_timeout;
unsigned int min_hw_heartbeat_ms;
unsigned int max_hw_heartbeat_ms;
struct notifier_block reboot_nb;
struct notifier_block restart_nb;
@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ It contains following fields:
* max_timeout: the watchdog timer's maximum timeout value (in seconds),
as seen from userspace. If set, the maximum configurable value for
'timeout'. Not used if max_hw_heartbeat_ms is non-zero.
* min_hw_heartbeat_ms: Minimum time between heartbeats sent to the chip,
in milli-seconds.
* max_hw_heartbeat_ms: Maximum hardware heartbeat, in milli-seconds.
If set, the infrastructure will send heartbeats to the watchdog driver
if 'timeout' is larger than max_hw_heartbeat_ms, unless WDOG_ACTIVE