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From: Ivan Mikhaylov <i.mikhaylov@yadro.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	<linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: watchdog start on restart
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 16:26:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a58bc3f80783170ecc38371aad7addc04397787.camel@yadro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6aa46c5-a1ac-c32e-5cc6-bf9a15a53b65@csgroup.eu>

On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 13:13 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

> You want to start the watchdog just before calling 'reboot' but want to 
> make sure that the watchdog will not reset the board before all 
> userspace has shut down correctly ?

Yes, just for an example, in the nature exists some aspeed2400/2500 board which
has 2 watchdog devices and 2 spi flash memories. By default it starts from 1 spi
flash. When watchdog triggers, on next boot, it's automatically starts from 2
flash, also you can manually switch from 1 spi flash to 2 with 2 watchdog device
by trigger of it, like transparent reload from 1 spi flash side to 2.

> But what is the purpose of the watchdog then, isn't it there to make 
> sure that the machine gets reboot within a given timeout anyway in case 
> some userspace takes too long to shut down ?

Usually, yes.

Thanks.


      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-03 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-02 13:02 Ivan Mikhaylov
2020-09-02 13:19 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 10:19   ` Ivan Mikhaylov
2020-09-02 13:36 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-09-03 10:23   ` Ivan Mikhaylov
2020-09-03 11:13     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 13:26       ` Ivan Mikhaylov [this message]

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