freebsd-nq/share/man/man4/watchdog.4
Nick Hibma 9079fff550 Align the interfaces for the various watchdogs and make the interface
behave as expected.

Also:
- Return an error if WD_PASSIVE is passed in to the ioctl as only
  WD_ACTIVE is implemented at the moment. See sys/watchdog.h for an
  explanation of the difference between WD_ACTIVE and WD_PASSIVE.
- Remove the I_HAVE_TOTALLY_LOST_MY_SENSE_OF_HUMOR define. If you've
  lost your sense of humor, than don't add a define.

Specific changes:

i80321_wdog.c
  Don't roll your own passive watchdog tickle as this would defeat the
  purpose of an active (userland) watchdog tickle.

ichwd.c / ipmi.c:
  WD_ACTIVE means active patting of the watchdog by a userland process,
  not whether the watchdog is active. See sys/watchdog.h.

kern_clock.c:
  (software watchdog) Remove a check for WD_ACTIVE as this does not make
  sense here. This reverts r1.181.
2006-12-15 21:44:49 +00:00

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.Dd June 25, 2003
.Dt WATCHDOG 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm watchdog
.Nd "hardware and software watchdog"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/watchdog.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
facility is used for controlling hardware and software watchdogs.
.Pp
.Pa /dev/fido
responds to a single
.Xr ioctl 2
call,
.Dv WDIOCPATPAT .
It takes a single argument which represents a timeout value specified as a
power of two nanoseconds, or-ed with a flag selecting active or passive control
of the watchdog.
.Pp
.Dv WD_ACTIVE
indicates that the
.Nm
will be kept from timing out from userland, for instance by the
.Xr watchdogd 8
daemon.
.Dv WD_PASSIVE
indicates that the
.Nm
will be kept from timing out from the kernel.
.Pp
The
.Xr ioctl 2
call will return success if just one of the available
.Xr watchdog 9
implementations supports setting the timeout to the specified timeout. This
means that at least one watchdog is armed. If the call fails, for instance if
none of
.Xr watchdog 9
implementations support the timeout length, all watchdogs are disabled and must
be explicitly re-enabled.
.Pp
To disable the watchdogs pass
.Dv WD_TO_NEVER .
If disarming the watchdog(s) failed an error is returned. The watchdog might
still be armed!
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The ioctl returns zero on success and non-zero on failure.
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
No watchdog present in the kernel (timeout value other than 0).
.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
Watchdog could not be disabled (timeout value of 0).
.It Bq Er EINVALID
Invalid flag combination passed.
.It Bq Er EINVALID
None of the watchdogs supports the requested timeout value.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#include <paths.h>
#include <sys/watchdog.h>
#define WDPATH "/dev/" _PATH_WATCHDOG
int wdfd = -1;
static void
wd_init(void)
{
wdfd = open(WDPATH, O_RDWR);
if (wdfd == -1)
err(1, WDPATH);
}
static void
wd_reset(u_int timeout)
{
if (ioctl(wdfd, WDIOCPATPAT, &timeout) == -1)
err(1, "WDIOCPATPAT");
}
/* in main() */
wd_init();
wd_reset(WD_ACTIVE|WD_TO_8SEC);
/* potential freeze point */
wd_reset(WD_TO_NEVER);
.Ed
.Pp
Enables a watchdog to recover from a potentially freezing piece of code.
.Pp
.Bd -literal -offset indent
options SW_WATCHDOG
.Ed
.Pp
in your kernel config adds a software watchdog in the kernel, dropping to KDB
or panic-ing when firing.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
.Xr watchdog 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
code first appeared in
.Fx 5.1 .
.Sh BUGS
The
.Dv WD_PASSIVE
option has not yet been implemented.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
facility was written by
.An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq phk@FreeBSD.org .
The software watchdog code and this manual page were written by
.An Sean Kelly Aq smkelly@FreeBSD.org .
Some contributions were made by
.An Jeff Roberson Aq jeff@FreeBSD.org .