On 11/3/17 22:53, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Xin Li <delp...@delphij.net > <mailto:delp...@delphij.net>> wrote: > > > > On 11/3/17 20:01, Warner Losh wrote: > > Author: imp > > Date: Sat Nov 4 03:01:58 2017 > > New Revision: 325378 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325378 > <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325378> > > > > Log: > > Make the startup timeout 0 seconds by default rathern than 420s. This > > makes the default fail safe when watchdogd is disabled (which is also > > the default). > > I'm not sure if this is good: what if watchdogd is enabled, but the > system get stuck before watchdogd starts? > > > Correct. This feature has to be opt-in on top of watchdogd. If you don't > add-in this feature, you won't have this new protection. You have to set > hw.ipmi.wd_startup_countdown to activate it. > > More complicated logic may be possible, but the ipmi driver has no clue > if watchdogd is enabled, so I'm not sure I see a path forward to > automatically doing the right thing with sensible defaults. Have I > overlooked something?
No you didn't. I missed the fact that hw.ipmi.wd_startup_countdown can be set in loader. Sorry for the noise. Cheers,
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