Re: [PATCH v5] watchdog: add driver for StreamLabs USB watchdog device

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 03:34:16AM +0100, Alexey Klimov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 AM Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 26.07.22 02:21, Alexey Klimov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 9:51 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 04:06:05AM +0100, Alexey Klimov wrote:
> > >
> > > [..]
> > >
> > >> Anyway, driver looks good to me, nice work!
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > >
> > > Thanks, Greg. If you don't mind I'll use your tag in next version
> > > after making changes suggested by Guenter since there will be no
> > > significant functional changes. If code will change a lot, then the
> > > process (Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst) will require me
> > > to drop the tag.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > while thinking about this a question arose. How does this
> > device react to a USB reset? A watchdog that can be disabled
> > by a simple reset does not like very reliable to me.
> > Do you need to implement pre/post_reset() ?
> 
> You're right. Upon reset the watchdog is disabled even if it was active before.
> Adding empty ->pre_reset() and ->post_reset() helps to avoid that, but
> looking at Documentation and other drivers it seems that I need to do:
> in pre_reset():
> mutex_lock() to block any other I/O to the usb device;
> __usb_streamlabs_wdt_cmd(STOP) to stop the watchdog;
> and do not unlock the mutex;
> 
> in post_reset():
> if (watchdog_active())
>         __usb_streamlabs_wdt_cmd(START);
> mutex_unlock() to allow other's I/O to the usb deivce.
> 
> Seems right?
> 
Not necessarily. Is other code doing something similar ?
Using a mutex like this creates the risk for hung tasks.

Guenter

> Best regards,
> Alexey