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2011-03-29watchdog: softdog.c: enhancement to optionally invoke panic instead of ↵Anithra P Janakiraman
reboot on timer expiry This is needed for determining the reason for failure when a softdog timeout occurs. We use softdog to watch for critical application failures and at the minimum a snapshot of the system would help to determine the cause. In such a scenario the application could fail but there isn't a softlockup as such, hence the detect softlockup feature does not help. The patch adds a module parameter soft_panic which when set to 1 causes softdog to invoke panic instead of reboot when the softdog timer expires. By invoking panic we execute kdump if it is configured and the vmcore generated by kdump should provide atleast a minimal idea of the reason for failure. Based on an original patch by Ken Sugawara <sugaken.r3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anithra P J <anithra@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-15watchdog: cleanup spaces before tabsWim Van Sebroeck
cleanup spaces before tabs in drivers/watchdog/ Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2009-06-18[WATCHDOG] Some more general cleanupWim Van Sebroeck
Clean-up the watchdog drivers so that checkpatch.pl get's happy... Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2009-03-25[WATCHDOG] More coding-style and trivial clean-upWim Van Sebroeck
Some more cleaning-up of the watchdog drivers. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-10-28[PATCH] Switch all my contributions stuff to a single common addressAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-08-06[WATCHDOG] Coding style - Indentation - part 2Wim Van Sebroeck
This brings the watchdog drivers into line with coding style. This patch takes cares of the indentation as described in chapter 1. Main changes: * Re-structure the ioctl switch call for all drivers as follows: switch (cmd) { case WDIOC_GETSUPPORT: case WDIOC_GETSTATUS: case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS: case WDIOC_GETTEMP: case WDIOC_SETOPTIONS: case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE: case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT: case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT: case WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT: default: } This to make the migration from the drivers to the uniform watchdog device driver easier in the future. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-06-21[WATCHDOG 47/57] softdog: clean up, coding style and switch to unlocked_ioctlAlan Cox
Review and switch to unlocked_ioctl Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-10-18mv watchdog tree under driversWim Van Sebroeck
move watchdog tree from drivers/char/watchdog to drivers/watchdog. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>