Re: watchdogs and kdump

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:46:30AM -0400, Alejandro Cabrera wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I dont know kjump :), but seeing it's description I think that you
> could use a temporal thread executed in the context of kdump that
> ping the watchdog at certain intervals like watchdogd does at
> user-space.

Sure.  Add something like watchdogd isn't difficult.  My problem is
getting enough time to boot the second kernel to run that daemon.
Depending on when the watchdog was last kicked, the machine may reboot
while trying to initialize the cpu in the second kernel. :-(

Cheers,
Don
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