Can't get watchdog to kick on freeRTOS application using S32K mcu

Question

Using the S32K146 MCU with DS for ARM v2.2.

After I initialize my WDOG, I can confirm that it is working to reset the system... but I cannot seem to successfully kick the WDOG. It just keeps resetting the system.

Here is my WDOG config:

#include "watchdog1.h"

/*! watchdog1 configuration structure */
const wdog_user_config_t watchdog1_Config0 = {
    .clkSource = WDOG_LPO_CLOCK,       /* WDOG clock source */
    .opMode = {
        false,                         /* Wait Mode         */
        false,                         /* Stop Mode         */
        false                           /* Debug Mode        */
    },
    .updateEnable = true,              /* Enable/Disable further updates of the WDOG configuration */
    .intEnable = true,                /* Timeout interrupt disabled */
    .winEnable = false,                /* Enable/Disable Window mode */
    .windowValue = 0U,                 /* Window value               */
    .timeoutValue = 9000U,             /* Timeout value              */
    .prescalerEnable = true            /* WDOG prescaler             */
};

... and I use these two wrapper functions for the NXP API to init and try to kick the WDOG:

void init_watchdog(void) {
    /* Initialize the WDOG driver */
    WDOG_DRV_Init(INST_WATCHDOG1, &watchdog1_Config0);
}

void refresh_watchdog(void) {
    WDOG_DRV_Trigger(INST_WATCHDOG1);
}

My application is FreeRTOS based. I inserted the WDOG init call in main along with my other initializations. I have a UART print in main that shows me when the system is reset.

The issue is that regardless of where I call refresh_watchdog(), I cannot get the WDOG timer to reset. Currently, I enabled #define configUSE_IDLE_HOOK 1 in FreeRTOS config so I can use the idle task with void vApplicationIdleHook(void) to call the wdog kick. Still no luck.

Wdog is working to reset the system, I just need to know how I can successfully kick the thing. I have multiple RTOS tasks with different priorities, running with a semaphore based ISR routine. Any ideas?

I tried refreshing the watchdog:

• In my RTOS tasks just after the while(1) call or at the end of the task. (No luck)
• Tried calling WDOG reset in the ISR function. (I shouldn't do this anyways, but no luck)
• I tried creating a new independent RTOS task that just contains the reset function and kicks the WDOG when it gets passed the semaphore. (no luck)