From: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
<linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Adding softwatchdog
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 12:25:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210424102555.28203-1-peter.enderborg@sony.com> (raw)
First it is not a new softdog.
This adds function that do other actions than a reboot. It intended to be
used to help userspace management and monitoring going but can
be used standalone too.
The idea is to use watchdog interface, instead of reboot, a timer
function do a softer action. In this case it is using oom_score_adj
to pick a task to kill. So this is assuming that watchdog kicker
is not respoding due to high memory pressure. A other usecase might
be a selecting a task from a UID or what ever is problematic,
it does not have to be a memory issue.
But core thing is to have other actions than hard reboot.
The patch need more works, but it can be tested as it is.
next reply other threads:[~2021-04-24 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-24 10:25 Peter Enderborg [this message]
2021-04-24 10:25 ` Peter Enderborg
2021-04-24 12:21 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-04-24 13:04 ` Peter.Enderborg
2021-04-24 14:41 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-04-24 15:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-04-24 16:19 ` peter enderborg
2021-04-25 1:08 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-04-25 6:42 ` peter enderborg
2021-04-25 8:05 ` peter enderborg
2021-04-24 15:27 ` Peter.Enderborg
2021-04-24 17:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-04-24 17:20 ` Peter.Enderborg
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