Svc::WatchDog Port

Svc::WatchDog Port

1. Introduction

The Svc::WatchDog port is used to ping active components to verify that they are still responsive and have not hung.

2. Design

A health component in the system uses a set of ping ports to send a message to an active component. The active component is required to respond with the value in the key argument passed in the port by a certain timeout.

2.1 Context

2.1.1 Port Diagram

The Svc::WatchDog port has the following port diagram:

The Svc::WatchDog port has the following arguments:

Argument | Type | Description --— | --------— code | U32 | Code for the watchdog reset

2.1.2 Serializables

There are no serializables defined in the port

3. Change Log

Date	Description
1/25/2016	Initial Version