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

From Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
Date 2015-09-14 11:00 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 06:45:17PM -0400, 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.
> > 
> > What is the mechanism for resetting the watchdog?  The only code that 
> > knows about the hardware registers is this driver.  Does the crashdump 
> > kernel call the watchdog stop function?
> > 
> >> 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).
> 
> Just to go back and explicitly answer this, arm64 does have support for
> crashdump, using the standard kexec/kdump approach, exactly as on x86.

Just a clarification - this is not (yet) supported in mainline, not even
with DT.

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Catalin

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Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> - 2015-09-11 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> - 2015-09-14 06:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org> - 2015-09-14 17:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-09-14 11:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org> - 2015-09-15 05:20 +0200

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