Commit c1f26387 authored by Ezequiel Garcia's avatar Ezequiel Garcia Committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
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watchdog: imgpdc: Add some documentation about the timeout



This watchdog hardware can be configured in terms of power-of-two
clock cycles. Therefore, the watchdog timeout configured by the user
will be rounded-up to the next possible hardware timeout.

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Signed-off-by: default avatarEzequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
parent deb8d50e
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 * Based on drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c Copyright (c) 2013 Carlo Caione
 *                                                     2012 Henrik Nordstrom
 *
 * Notes
 * -----
 * The timeout value is rounded to the next power of two clock cycles.
 * This is configured using the PDC_WDT_CONFIG register, according to this
 * formula:
 *
 *     timeout = 2^(delay + 1) clock cycles
 *
 * Where 'delay' is the value written in PDC_WDT_CONFIG register.
 *
 * Therefore, the hardware only allows to program watchdog timeouts, expressed
 * as a power of two number of watchdog clock cycles. The current implementation
 * guarantees that the actual watchdog timeout will be _at least_ the value
 * programmed in the imgpdg_wdt driver.
 *
 * The following table shows how the user-configured timeout relates
 * to the actual hardware timeout (watchdog clock @ 40000 Hz):
 *
 * input timeout | WD_DELAY | actual timeout
 * -----------------------------------
 *      10       |   18     |  13 seconds
 *      20       |   19     |  26 seconds
 *      30       |   20     |  52 seconds
 *      60       |   21     |  104 seconds
 *
 * Albeit coarse, this granularity would suffice most watchdog uses.
 * If the platform allows it, the user should be able to change the watchdog
 * clock rate and achieve a finer timeout granularity.
 */

#include <linux/clk.h>