* RFC: generic support for two-stage watchdogs?
@ 2011-07-28 17:08 Chris Friesen
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From: Chris Friesen @ 2011-07-28 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Watchdog Mailing List, Wim Van Sebroeck,
Linux Kernel Mailing List
When using kdump to store crash recovery information, it is frustrating
when the watchdog timer fires and reboots the system under our feet.
Many hardware watchdogs support a two-stage operation where the initial
stage expires and sends an NMI or other interrupt to the CPU. Only once
the second stage fires does it actually reboot the hardware.
Has anyone considered adding support for this sort of hardware to the
/dev/watchdog API? It seems like it would make sense to reset the
watchdog timeout to some suitable period and trigger kdump. This would
let us preserve the crash information.
If the system is really fubared then the second stage will fire and
reboot the machine.
Chris
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Chris Friesen
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GENBAND
chris.friesen@genband.com
www.genband.com
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