ns run from different CPUs, it's in theory possible for the writes to be interleaved, which would be disastrous for this driver. At the very least, we need an mmiowb() before releasing the lock, but since it seems desirable for the watchdog timer to be actually stopped or reset when these functions return, read the lock register to force the writes out. Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck