On 4 February 2016 at 02:26, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fu Wei wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > I understand all that. What I'm saying is that, in the future, when > pre-timeout support is added to the watchdog layer, I think it makes sense > to modify this driver to use pre-timeout support. As you know I have made the pre-timeout support patch, If people like it, i am happy to go on upstream it separately. If we want to use pre-timeout here, user only can use get_pretimeout and disable panic by setting pretimeout to 0 but user can not really set pretimeout, because "pre-timeout == timeout / 2 (always)". if user want to change pretimeout, he/she has to set_time instead. -- 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
