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Many watchdog drivers use watchdog_stop_on_reboot() helper in order to stop the watchdog on system reboot. Unfortunately, this logic is coded in driver's probe function and doesn't allows user to decide what to do during shutdown/reboot. On the other side, Xen and Qemu watchdog drivers (xen_wdt and i6300esb) may be configured to either send NMI or turn off/reboot VM as the watchdog action. As the kernel may stuck at any state, sending NMIs can't reliably reboot the VM. At Arista, we benefited from the following set-up: the emulated watchdogs trigger VM reset and softdog is set to catch less severe conditions to generate vmcore. Just before reboot watchdog's timeout is increased to some good-enough value (3 mins). That keeps watchdog always running and guarantees that VM doesn't stuck. Provide new stop_on_reboot module parameter to let user control watchdog's reboot policy. Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200223114939.194754-1-dima@arista.com Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.