Hi Pratyush, Great thanks for your help on some update for watchdog framework. For " Fix parent of watchdog_devices", I will update my patchset. For the upstreaming patchset"Sysfs status read support", will make a patch. But upstream it when your patchset is merged. On 14 September 2015 at 12:21, Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/09/2015:06:45:17 PM, Jon Masters wrote: >> On 06/03/2015 02:53 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: >> > On 06/03/2015 01:25 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> >> In general the idea here would be to use a crashdump kernel, which, >> >> when loaded, would reset the watchdog before it fires. This kernel >> >> would then write a core dump to a specified location. > > And this is what we do in fedora or RHEL. There had been some work ongoing in > fedora [1][2] which will help to reset any active watchdog in kdump kernel(if > the watchdog driver has been registered to watchdog_class). It will eventually > help a watchdog on ARM64 platform as well. > > [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kexec/2015-September/002295.html > [2] https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools/commits/watchdog_fmaster > > ~Pratyush -- 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
