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authorWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2006-09-02 18:50:20 +0200
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2006-10-04 22:41:48 +0200
commitab9d441425559aa035ba6327f21e8922e8a13927 (patch)
treee1deeab38550be809d50e804a669dbd8ff2992f5 /drivers/char
parente0845bf4e1df07e16fa39d96508a1ba4a480ce3e (diff)
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[WATCHDOG] w836?7hf_wdt spinlock fixes.
Add io spinlocks to prevent possible race conditions between start and stop operations that are issued from different child processes where the master process opened /dev/watchdog. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/watchdog/w83697hf_wdt.c8
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
index b4adc527e687..07d4bff27226 100644
--- a/drivers/char/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/watchdog/w83627hf_wdt.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@
static unsigned long wdt_is_open;
static char expect_close;
+static spinlock_t io_lock;
/* You must set this - there is no sane way to probe for this board. */
static int wdt_io = 0x2E;
@@ -110,12 +112,16 @@ w83627hf_init(void)
static void
wdt_ctrl(int timeout)
{
+ spin_lock(&io_lock);
+
w83627hf_select_wd_register();
outb_p(0xF6, WDT_EFER); /* Select CRF6 */
outb_p(timeout, WDT_EFDR); /* Write Timeout counter to CRF6 */
w83627hf_unselect_wd_register();
+
+ spin_unlock(&io_lock);
}
static int
@@ -303,6 +309,8 @@ wdt_init(void)
{
int ret;
+ spin_lock_init(&io_lock);
+
printk(KERN_INFO "WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF Super I/O chip initialising.\n");
if (wdt_set_heartbeat(timeout)) {
diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/w83697hf_wdt.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/w83697hf_wdt.c
index ef6612e1b91f..21e822e0eeec 100644
--- a/drivers/char/watchdog/w83697hf_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/watchdog/w83697hf_wdt.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@
static unsigned long wdt_is_open;
static char expect_close;
+static spinlock_t io_lock;
/* You must set this - there is no sane way to probe for this board. */
static int wdt_io = 0x2E;
@@ -114,12 +116,16 @@ w83697hf_init(void)
static void
wdt_ctrl(int timeout)
{
+ spin_lock(&io_lock);
+
w83697hf_select_wd_register();
outb_p(0xF4, WDT_EFER); /* Select CRF4 */
outb_p(timeout, WDT_EFDR); /* Write Timeout counter to CRF4 */
w83697hf_unselect_wd_register();
+
+ spin_unlock(&io_lock);
}
static int
@@ -307,6 +313,8 @@ wdt_init(void)
{
int ret;
+ spin_lock_init(&io_lock);
+
printk(KERN_INFO "WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83697HF Super I/O chip initialising.\n");
if (wdt_set_heartbeat(timeout)) {