[WATCHDOG] Pre-Timeout flags
Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which
occurs some time before the real timeout. The pretimeout can
be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic
the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead
of a blind reboot).
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 21ed511..7dc2c1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -110,7 +110,31 @@
ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT, &timeout);
printf("The timeout was is %d seconds\n", timeout);
-Envinronmental monitoring:
+Pretimeouts:
+
+Some watchdog timers can be set to have a trigger go off before the
+actual time they will reset the system. This can be done with an NMI,
+interrupt, or other mechanism. This allows Linux to record useful
+information (like panic information and kernel coredumps) before it
+resets.
+
+ pretimeout = 10;
+ ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETPRETIMEOUT, &pretimeout);
+
+Note that the pretimeout is the number of seconds before the time
+when the timeout will go off. It is not the number of seconds until
+the pretimeout. So, for instance, if you set the timeout to 60 seconds
+and the pretimeout to 10 seconds, the pretimout will go of in 50
+seconds. Setting a pretimeout to zero disables it.
+
+There is also a get function for getting the pretimeout:
+
+ ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETPRETIMEOUT, &timeout);
+ printf("The pretimeout was is %d seconds\n", timeout);
+
+Not all watchdog drivers will support a pretimeout.
+
+Environmental monitoring:
All watchdog drivers are required return more information about the system,
some do temperature, fan and power level monitoring, some can tell you
@@ -169,6 +193,10 @@
WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT Can set/get the timeout
+The watchdog can do pretimeouts.
+
+ WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT Pretimeout (in seconds), get/set
+
For those drivers that return any bits set in the option field, the
GETSTATUS and GETBOOTSTATUS ioctls can be used to ask for the current
diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
index 1192ed8..a99c937 100644
--- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
+++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
#define WDIOC_KEEPALIVE _IOR(WATCHDOG_IOCTL_BASE, 5, int)
#define WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT _IOWR(WATCHDOG_IOCTL_BASE, 6, int)
#define WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT _IOR(WATCHDOG_IOCTL_BASE, 7, int)
+#define WDIOC_SETPRETIMEOUT _IOWR(WATCHDOG_IOCTL_BASE, 8, int)
+#define WDIOC_GETPRETIMEOUT _IOR(WATCHDOG_IOCTL_BASE, 9, int)
#define WDIOF_UNKNOWN -1 /* Unknown flag error */
#define WDIOS_UNKNOWN -1 /* Unknown status error */
@@ -41,6 +43,7 @@
#define WDIOF_POWEROVER 0x0040 /* Power over voltage */
#define WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT 0x0080 /* Set timeout (in seconds) */
#define WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE 0x0100 /* Supports magic close char */
+#define WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT 0x0200 /* Pretimeout (in seconds), get/set */
#define WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING 0x8000 /* Keep alive ping reply */
#define WDIOS_DISABLECARD 0x0001 /* Turn off the watchdog timer */