watchdog: mei_wdt: implement MEI iAMT watchdog driver

Create a driver with the generic watchdog interface
for the MEI iAMT watchdog device.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt

@@ -231,15 +231,15 @@ IT knows when a platform crashes even when there is a hard failure on the host.
 The Intel AMT Watchdog is composed of two parts:
 	1) Firmware feature - receives the heartbeats
 	   and sends an event when the heartbeats stop.
-	2) Intel MEI driver - connects to the watchdog feature, configures the
-	   watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
+	2) Intel MEI iAMT watchdog driver - connects to the watchdog feature,
+	   configures the watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
 
-The Intel MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure the Intel AMT
-Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
+The Intel iAMT watchdog MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure
+the Intel AMT Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
 watchdog is 120 seconds.
 
-If the Intel AMT Watchdog feature does not exist (i.e. the connection failed),
-the Intel MEI driver will disable the sending of heartbeats.
+If the Intel AMT is not enabled in the firmware then the watchdog client won't enumerate
+on the me client bus and watchdog devices won't be exposed.
 
 
 Supported Chipsets

MAINTAINERS

@@ -5751,6 +5751,7 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	include/uapi/linux/mei.h
 F:	include/linux/mei_cl_bus.h
 F:	drivers/misc/mei/*
+F:	drivers/watchdog/mei_wdt.c
 F:	Documentation/misc-devices/mei/*
 
 INTEL MIC DRIVERS (mic)

drivers/watchdog/Kconfig

@@ -1212,6 +1212,21 @@ config SBC_EPX_C3_WATCHDOG
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
 	  module will be called sbc_epx_c3.
 
+config INTEL_MEI_WDT
+	tristate "Intel MEI iAMT Watchdog"
+	depends on INTEL_MEI && X86
+	select WATCHDOG_CORE
+	---help---
+	  A device driver for the Intel MEI iAMT watchdog.
+
+	  The Intel AMT Watchdog is an OS Health (Hang/Crash) watchdog.
+	  Whenever the OS hangs or crashes, iAMT will send an event
+	  to any subscriber to this event. The watchdog doesn't reset the
+	  the platform.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here:
+	  the module will be called mei_wdt.
+
 # M32R Architecture
 
 # M68K Architecture

drivers/watchdog/Makefile

@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MACHZ_WDT) += machzwd.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SBC_EPX_C3_WATCHDOG) += sbc_epx_c3.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_SCU_WATCHDOG) += intel_scu_watchdog.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_MID_WATCHDOG) += intel-mid_wdt.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_WDT) += mei_wdt.o
 
 # M32R Architecture