Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Pratyush Anand]

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
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