From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:59:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151434785.32186.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060627182225.GD10805@localdomain>
Ar Maw, 2006-06-27 am 13:22 -0500, ysgrifennodd minyard@acm.org:
> Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which
> occurs some time before the real timeout. The pretimeout can
> be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic
> the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead
> of a blind reboot).
All watchdogs can do pre-timeouts in software so possibly this should
use a software fallback as well if you want good coverage ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-27 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-27 18:22 [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl minyard
2006-06-27 18:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-06-28 1:05 ` Corey Minyard
2006-06-28 10:27 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28 0:38 ` Corey Minyard
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