Hi Timur, Sorry, how do you trigger a panic if WS1 ties to reset ?? don't know what is your question could you make it simple: 1) calling panic() on pre-timeout (WS0????) 2) calling panic() on timeout (WS1????) in "first version" , I just print the timeleft for WS1 or panic when WS0 occurs. On 25 May 2015 at 00:13, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fu Wei wrote: >> >> in the first timeout, just panic() maybe not enough, in [RFC] >> version of my patchset, I offer some option as "preaction" to use, but >> for simplifying the first version of driver, I have deleted them. >> but at least, panic() is far more useful than a simple reset. at >> least, it can provide the context of the crashed system to admin. > > > My point is that there is very little difference between > > 1) calling panic() on pre-timeout > 2) calling panic() on timeout > > In both cases, the system will panic. The watchdog API says that the system > should reset when a timeout occurs, so you cannot call panic() before the > timeout expires. > >> If you want to warn user space, that will make driver more >> complicated, I don't think that is a good choose for a first version. >> but we can find a way to improve this later > > In my opinion, this "first version" is not useful. I would like to see a > pre-timeout feature that does not panic or reset when a pre-timeout occurs. > > > -- > Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the > Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation. -- Best regards, Fu Wei Software Engineer Red Hat Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.Shanghai Branch Ph: +86 21 61221326(direct) Ph: +86 186 2020 4684 (mobile) Room 1512, Regus One Corporate Avenue,Level 15, One Corporate Avenue,222 Hubin Road,Huangpu District, Shanghai,China 200021 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
