watchdog: add watchdog pretimeout governor framework

The change adds a simple watchdog pretimeout framework infrastructure,
its purpose is to allow users to select a desired handling of watchdog
pretimeout events, which may be generated by some watchdog devices.

A user selects a default watchdog pretimeout governor during
compilation stage.

Watchdogs with WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability now have one more device
attribute in sysfs, pretimeout_governor attribute is intended to display
the selected watchdog pretimeout governor.

The framework has no impact at runtime on watchdog devices with no
WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT capability set.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
index 1bffe006ca9a..04d535ae497d 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
@@ -1831,4 +1831,11 @@ config USBPCWATCHDOG
 
           Most people will say N.
 
+comment "Watchdog Pretimeout Governors"
+
+config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV
+        bool "Enable watchdog pretimeout governors"
+        help
+          The option allows to select watchdog pretimeout governors.
+
 endif # WATCHDOG