Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> writes: > A common problem with kdump is that during the boot up of the > second kernel, the hardware watchdog times out and reboots the > machine before a vmcore can be captured. > > Instead of tellling customers to disable their hardware watchdog > timers, I hacked up a hook to put in the kdump path that provides > one last kick before jumping into the second kernel. > > The assumption is the watchdog timeout is at least 10-30 seconds > long, enough to get the second kernel to userspace to kick the watchdog > again, if needed. Why not double the watchdog timeout? and/or pet the watchdog a little more frequently. This is the least icky hook I have seen proposed to be put on the kexec on panic path, but I still suspect this may reduce the ability to take a crash dump. What happens if it was the watchdog timer that panic'd for example. Eric
