Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:25:03 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver |
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 01:16:41PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On 06/01/2015 11:05 PM, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote: > >+ if (wdd->pretimeout) > >+ /* The pretimeout is valid, go panic */ > >+ panic("SBSA Watchdog pre-timeout"); > > The problem with this is that WS1 will still occur. So a few seconds after > the panic() call, the hardware will reset. There won't be any time to debug > or log anything. >
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.
If arm64 doesn't support a crashdump kernel, it might still be possible to log the backtrace somewhere (eg in nvram using pstore if that is supported via acpi or efi).
Is there reason to believe that this all won't work on arm64 ?
Thanks, Guenter
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