2 * SoftDog: A Software Watchdog Device
4 * (c) Copyright 1996 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
9 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
10 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
12 * Neither Alan Cox nor CymruNet Ltd. admit liability nor provide
13 * warranty for any of this software. This material is provided
14 * "AS-IS" and at no charge.
16 * (c) Copyright 1995 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
18 * Software only watchdog driver. Unlike its big brother the WDT501P
19 * driver this won't always recover a failed machine.
22 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
24 #include <linux/init.h>
25 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
26 #include <linux/kernel.h>
27 #include <linux/module.h>
28 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
29 #include <linux/reboot.h>
30 #include <linux/timer.h>
31 #include <linux/types.h>
32 #include <linux/watchdog.h>
34 #define TIMER_MARGIN 60 /* Default is 60 seconds */
35 static unsigned int soft_margin
= TIMER_MARGIN
; /* in seconds */
36 module_param(soft_margin
, uint
, 0);
37 MODULE_PARM_DESC(soft_margin
,
38 "Watchdog soft_margin in seconds. (0 < soft_margin < 65536, default="
39 __MODULE_STRING(TIMER_MARGIN
) ")");
41 static bool nowayout
= WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
;
42 module_param(nowayout
, bool, 0);
43 MODULE_PARM_DESC(nowayout
,
44 "Watchdog cannot be stopped once started (default="
45 __MODULE_STRING(WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
) ")");
47 static int soft_noboot
;
48 module_param(soft_noboot
, int, 0);
49 MODULE_PARM_DESC(soft_noboot
,
50 "Softdog action, set to 1 to ignore reboots, 0 to reboot (default=0)");
52 static int soft_panic
;
53 module_param(soft_panic
, int, 0);
54 MODULE_PARM_DESC(soft_panic
,
55 "Softdog action, set to 1 to panic, 0 to reboot (default=0)");
57 static void softdog_fire(unsigned long data
)
59 module_put(THIS_MODULE
);
61 pr_crit("Triggered - Reboot ignored\n");
62 } else if (soft_panic
) {
63 pr_crit("Initiating panic\n");
64 panic("Software Watchdog Timer expired");
66 pr_crit("Initiating system reboot\n");
68 pr_crit("Reboot didn't ?????\n");
72 static struct timer_list softdog_ticktock
=
73 TIMER_INITIALIZER(softdog_fire
, 0, 0);
75 static int softdog_ping(struct watchdog_device
*w
)
77 if (!mod_timer(&softdog_ticktock
, jiffies
+ (w
->timeout
* HZ
)))
78 __module_get(THIS_MODULE
);
82 static int softdog_stop(struct watchdog_device
*w
)
84 if (del_timer(&softdog_ticktock
))
85 module_put(THIS_MODULE
);
90 static struct watchdog_info softdog_info
= {
91 .identity
= "Software Watchdog",
92 .options
= WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT
| WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING
| WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE
,
95 static struct watchdog_ops softdog_ops
= {
97 .start
= softdog_ping
,
101 static struct watchdog_device softdog_dev
= {
102 .info
= &softdog_info
,
105 .max_timeout
= 65535,
106 .timeout
= TIMER_MARGIN
,
109 static int __init
softdog_init(void)
113 watchdog_init_timeout(&softdog_dev
, soft_margin
, NULL
);
114 watchdog_set_nowayout(&softdog_dev
, nowayout
);
115 watchdog_stop_on_reboot(&softdog_dev
);
117 ret
= watchdog_register_device(&softdog_dev
);
121 pr_info("initialized. soft_noboot=%d soft_margin=%d sec soft_panic=%d (nowayout=%d)\n",
122 soft_noboot
, softdog_dev
.timeout
, soft_panic
, nowayout
);
126 module_init(softdog_init
);
128 static void __exit
softdog_exit(void)
130 watchdog_unregister_device(&softdog_dev
);
132 module_exit(softdog_exit
);
134 MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox");
135 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Software Watchdog Device Driver");
136 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");