Thanks
Girish
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> on 12/11/2001 05:20:59 PM
To: Girish S Pujar/HSS@HSS
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Atul Chowdhry/HSS@HSS
Subject: Re: software watchdog
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:26:07PM +0530, gspujar@hss.hns.com wrote:
> Why is that the printk output not going to syslog although I have entry in
> /etc/syslog.conf
>
> kern.crit /var/log/pbsc.log
> even after I remove the mdelay call.
The machine reboots before syslog gets to run.
What happens is:
printk();
reboot();
During that period, syslog is unable to run, and therefore is unable to
write the log message to disk.
> Does it mean that without using "testing" mode ( I cannot beacuse I need a
> reboot) it is not possible to get log ?
I suppose you could modify softdog to delay the reboot using it's timer
(the timer fires the first time, you check data to see if it's non-zero.
If it's not, increment watchdog_ticktock.data, and set the watchdog to
timeout in 5 seconds, return).
You should probably prevent softdog_write updating the timer if the
data field is non-zero, so once you don't change the behaviour; this
is of course dependent on your test case.
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