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