[pve-devel] watchdog-mux.service stop, trigger restart

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

seem that it's already implemented in watchdog-mux

static void 
watchdog_close(void)
{
    if (watchdog_fd != -1) {
        if (write(watchdog_fd, "V", 1) == -1) {
            perror("write magic watchdog close");
        }
        if (close(watchdog_fd) == -1) {
            perror("write magic watchdog close");
        }
    }

    watchdog_fd = -1;
}
 


Don't known why it doesn't seem to work for me.

(If I launch a  loop with "echo V > /dev/watchdog" ,it's working fine, watchdog is stopped)


----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier at odiso.com>
À: "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
Envoyé: Mardi 15 Décembre 2015 12:07:16
Objet: [pve-devel] watchdog-mux.service stop, trigger restart

Hi, 

i'm seeing that stopping the watchdog-mux service cleaning, trigger the watchdog reset. 

I think this could happen on package update (windows size of 10s is really short) 



>From the watchdog doc, 

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt 

it's possible to implement "Magic Close feature" 


" 
If a driver supports "Magic Close", the driver will not disable the 
watchdog unless a specific magic character 'V' has been sent to 
/dev/watchdog just before closing the file. If the userspace daemon 
closes the file without sending this special character, the driver 
will assume that the daemon (and userspace in general) died, and will 
stop pinging the watchdog without disabling it first. This will then 
cause a reboot if the watchdog is not re-opened in sufficient time." 

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