On 4 February 2016 at 02:08, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fu Wei wrote: >> >> Actually I am taking your suggestion to avoid touching WCV in >> interrupt routine. >> So even we have pre-timeout support , it is useless for this >> panic-on-half-timeout feature, >> because pre-timeout == timeout / 2 (always). >> >> So maybe I misunderstand your suggestion, >> could you let me know : why we want pre-timeout here? > > > Maybe I'm confused. > > For pre-timeout, I think the SBSA watchdog driver should support only > half-timeout. That is, the user cannot configure the length of the > pre-timeout with this driver. He can only enable it, and it is > automatically set to 1/2 timeout. Actually, the SBSA watchdog driver should support only half-timeout for panic the user cannot configure the length of "panic time", He can only enable it, and it is automatically set to 1/2 timeout. we don't need pre-timeout here. Hope I understand you correctly :-) sorry for your confusion > > So when pre-timeout occurs, the interrupt handler calls panic() or whatever > it's supposed to do. Actually, So when 1/2 timeout occurs, the interrupt handler calls panic() or whatever it's supposed to do. > > So "pre-timeout == timeout / 2 (always)" is exactly what we want. our patchset is doing this way. -- 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
