watchdog: mei_wdt: register wd device only if required
For Intel Broadwell and newer platforms, the ME device can inform the host whether the watchdog functionality is activated or not. If the watchdog functionality is not activated then the watchdog interface can be not registered and eliminate unnecessary pings and hence lower the power consumption by avoiding waking up the device. The feature can be deactivated also without reboot in that case the watchdog device should be unregistered at runtime. The information regarding the deactivation is reported in the ping response command. In runtime case the unregistration has to be run from a worker so that the ping initiated by the watchdog core completes. Otherwise the flow will deadlock on watchdog core mutex which both ping and unregistration acquire. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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