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regulator: allow user configuration of hardware protection action
authorAhmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:39:48 +0000 (21:39 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:26:18 +0000 (22:26 -0800)
commited122380a19c70b272ae800fb248a1083297f652
tree0e7df255f436533172c7fade9de1e3cf8986b85e
parent6f0ec17b2d822c7f08e4113bc7ac6e5324bbb4b4
regulator: allow user configuration of hardware protection action

When the core detects permanent regulator hardware failure or imminent
power failure of a critical supply, it will call hw_protection_shutdown in
an attempt to do a limited orderly shutdown followed by powering off the
system.

This doesn't work out well for many unattended embedded systems that don't
have support for shutdown and that power on automatically when power is
supplied:

  - A brief power cycle gets detected by the driver
  - The kernel powers down the system and SoC goes into shutdown mode
  - Power is restored
  - The system remains oblivious to the restored power
  - System needs to be manually power cycled for a duration long enough
    to drain the capacitors

Allow users to fix this by calling the newly introduced
hw_protection_trigger() instead: This way the hw_protection commandline or
sysfs parameter is used to dictate the policy of dealing with the
regulator fault.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217-hw_protection-reboot-v3-8-e1c09b090c0c@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/regulator/core.c
drivers/regulator/irq_helpers.c