From: dwalker@fifo99.com (Daniel Walker)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] msm: watchdog: support watchdog on 8x60 and 8960
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:22:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301426560.4049.0.camel@m0nster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301105894-22835-1-git-send-email-johlstei@codeaurora.org>
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 19:18 -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote:
> The msm watchdog driver is present in kernel only. It does not use the
> built-in Linux watchdog api. This is because the primary function of
> our watchdog is detecting bus lockups and interrupts being turned off
> for long periods of time. We wanted this functionality to be present
> regardless of the userspace the kernel is running beneath. Userspace
> is
> free to have its own watchdog implemented in software.
Are you saying this is mostly a debugging facility ? The interrupts off
thing I can see as just debugging, but I don't understand the bus
lockups part.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-29 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-26 2:18 [PATCH] msm: watchdog: support watchdog on 8x60 and 8960 Jeff Ohlstein
2011-03-29 19:22 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2011-03-30 4:40 ` Jeff Ohlstein
2011-03-30 16:03 ` Daniel Walker
2011-03-30 16:14 ` Jamie Iles
2011-04-28 17:19 ` Pavel Machek
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