tree c2e28d731932daa482038716a122d74083540608
parent 3f2a2c738bbb3a456bc2225ec77175095877a441
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1579198622 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1582529689 +0100

watchdog/softlockup: Enforce that timestamp is valid on boot

[ Upstream commit 11e31f608b499f044f24b20be73f1dcab3e43f8a ]

Robert reported that during boot the watchdog timestamp is set to 0 for one
second which is the indicator for a watchdog reset.

The reason for this is that the timestamp is in seconds and the time is
taken from sched clock and divided by ~1e9. sched clock starts at 0 which
means that for the first second during boot the watchdog timestamp is 0,
i.e. reset.

Use ULONG_MAX as the reset indicator value so the watchdog works correctly
right from the start. ULONG_MAX would only conflict with a real timestamp
if the system reaches an uptime of 136 years on 32bit and almost eternity
on 64bit.

Reported-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87o8v3uuzl.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>