Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:59:45 +0100 |
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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 ?
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