On 12/07/2017 06:40 PM, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 15:12:15 -0800, Daniel Walker said: > >> So typically you have a process which updates the watchdog periodically >> which I call a petting process. As I said the purpose is to trigger the >> watchdog by starving the petting process (i.e. kick process) , then the >> watchdog reboots the system. > If you're doing the updating from userspace, a kill -9 will get the job done. > True, but that wasn't what I had in mind.. I was more interesting in simulating an actual lockup. Daniel _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
