http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042933
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042933#c25
--- Comment #25 from Borislav Petkov
In your example, by setting the timeout to 10 seconds, and updating only every 5 seconds, the system should get an NMI sent to it 1 second after your app pings the timer. (the driver implicitly pings once when starting the timer.)
Let me see if I undertstand this correctly: When one programs 10 sec into the watchdog, it will send an NMI after 10 - 9 = 1 seconds due to the pretimeout thing. So in order for the test not to panic the box, one either has to program a timeout T + 9 or disable ASR (if that's even possible). Yes? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.