Watchdog daemon to go with drivers?

[emilandreseniii]

Greetings All,

I've installed watchdog-3.8.10-tinycore.tcz and I see the drivers under /usr/local/lib/modules/3.8.10-tinycore/kernel/drivers/watchdog, but when I execute "find / | grep watchdog" I don't see any files for a watchdog daemon.  I'm working on getting the hardware watchdog on an Intel Atom (DN2800 CedarTrail) running, which uses I believe uses iTCO driver.

Question: Has anybody got a hardware watchdog up and running in TinyCore and if so do you have any tips?  I'm wondering

* Is there a watchdog daemon implementation available in the tcz TinyCore repo? (I'm guessing I need to compile one)
* Do I pass nmi_watchdog=1 on the grub boot line? (Was necessary to get it working with Fedora and this should work the same way for the TC kernel yes?)
* I see "iTCO_wdt.ko.gz" and "iTCO_vendor_support.ko.gz" in the watchdog driver list, i'm guessing I need to load both modules?

Thanks,

Emil

[tinypoodle]

"find / | grep watchdog"

Redundant "grep", use

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find / -name "*watchdog*"

* Do I pass nmi_watchdog=1 on the grub boot line? (Was necessary to get it working with Fedora and this should work the same way for the TC kernel yes?)

According to
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
"1" does not look like a valid parameter.

* I see "iTCO_wdt.ko.gz" and "iTCO_vendor_support.ko.gz" in the watchdog driver list, i'm guessing I need to load both modules?

In general, you can use "modinfo foo" to get info for modules, incl. dependencies and parameters.

Documentation for watchdog is available here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/

[emilandreseniii]

Hi tinypoodle,

Yeah, "find / | grep .." bad habit :-)

I found the nmi_watchdog param info here: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt   On Fedora the watchdog doesn't seem to fire without that param when I tested it.

When I run "modinfo iTCO_wdt" I just get "filename:    iTCO_wdt", but I haven't installed it yet so i'll try that next.

I'm guessing the standard linux system watchdog hasn't been ported to TC yet so I was going building that:

http://linux.die.net/man/8/watchdog
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/daemons/watchdog/

[Rich]

Hi emilandreseniii

When I run "modinfo iTCO_wdt" I just get "filename:    iTCO_wdt",

It seems  modinfo  just echos back whatever you typed rather than displaying a  not found  message.

[tinypoodle]

I found the nmi_watchdog param info here: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt

Then likely one of the doc sources is inaccurate or outdated.

When I run "modinfo iTCO_wdt" I just get "filename:    iTCO_wdt", but I haven't installed it yet so i'll try that next.

No sense of running a command on an inexistent file...   

[tinypoodle]

Hi emilandreseniii

When I run "modinfo iTCO_wdt" I just get "filename:    iTCO_wdt",

It seems  modinfo  just echos back whatever you typed rather than displaying a  not found  message.

If exists, expected value for filename would be its path.

[emilandreseniii]

Thanks tinypoodle!  I don't often work with kernel modules :-)  Looks like it does depend on iTCO_vendor_support which loads automatically with iTCO_wdt.

root@box:/usr/local/lib/modules/3.8.13-tinycore/kernel/drivers/watchdog# modinfo iTCO_wdt.ko.gz
filename:       iTCO_wdt.ko.gz
description:    Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver
author:         Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
license:        GPL
vermagic:       3.8.13-tinycore SMP mod_unload 486
parm:           turn_SMI_watchdog_clear_off:Turn off SMI clearing watchdog (depends on TCO-version)(default=1)
parm:           nowayout:Watchdog cannot be stopped once started (default=0)
parm:           heartbeat:Watchdog timeout in seconds. 5..76 (TCO v1) or 3..614 (TCO v2), default=30)
depends:        iTCO_vendor_support
root@box:/usr/local/lib/modules/3.8.13-tinycore/kernel/drivers/watchdog# modprobe -a iTCO_wdt.ko.gz
root@box:/usr/local/lib/modules/3.8.13-tinycore/kernel/drivers/watchdog# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
iTCO_wdt               12288  0
iTCO_vendor_support    12288  1 iTCO_wdt
mperf                  12288  0
cpufreq_stats          12288  0
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cpufreq_userspace      12288  0
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parport                24576  2 ppdev,parport_pc
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ac                     12288  0
battery                16384  0
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