equivalent of touch_nmi_watchdog

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 29 23:46:16 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:00, Rajarshi Das wrote:
> Its basically dumping code. After a panic has happened, interrupts are
> inhibited, all CPUS (except the host cpu) are frozen, and for each page
> of data, the dump module writes the dump to disk by calling the host
> adapter's interrupt handler till I/O completes.

Hrm... a bit scary but might actually work. I don't think we have
a clean interface for whatever watchdog service HV may provide
though, but I'll let others comment on that.

Ben.


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