I was hoping to get some ideas on how to handle the watchdog timers
we have on some embedded PPC (booke_wdt.c) cores when we are in a SMP
system.
The problem is since the watchdog is part of the processor core
depending on which processor a given system call is executed at we
might get different behavior. It seems like we would want to mirror
the actions to both cores (via smp_call_function).
Looking at the file ops we currently support in booke_wdt.c it seems
like we could mirror the actions for booke_wdt_write()/booke_wdt_ping
() to both cores and ensure when we set something like
WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT we set the registers in both processors.
I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas or if this model seems
to work.
- k
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