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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 ?


  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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