watchdog_get_status(9)

💖 watchdog_get_status(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for watchdog_get_status(9) — yes it's a real kernel function, yes it's iconic, and yes you're gonna understand it in like two minutes. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

watchdog_get_status — a little wrapper that gets the watchdog status. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🐕

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unsigned int watchdog_get_status (struct watchdog_device *wdd );

yes bestie that trailing space before the ) is canon, keep it, we don't edit the original. 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• wdd — the watchdog device we're pulling the status from. like, the actual doggo in question. 🐶✨

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what does it do? it gets the watchdog's status flags. simple, clean, slay. 🌸

⚠️ okay but fr fr listen to me: the caller must hold wd_data->lock. no cap. if you don't hold that lock, that's on you, not on this function, and it is not the vibe. 🔒💀

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✨ RETURN ✨

the watchdog's status flags. that's the whole return value, bestie — flags, returned, done. 🫶

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, lowkey a full group chat of watchdog functions:

• Kernel file ./drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
• watchdog_ping(9)
• watchdog_start(9)
• watchdog_stop(9)
• watchdog_set_timeout(9)
• watchdog_set_pretimeout(9)
• watchdog_get_timeleft(9)
• watchdog_ioctl_op(9)
• watchdog_write(9)
• watchdog_ioctl(9)
• watchdog_open(9)
• watchdog_release(9)
• watchdog_cdev_register(9)
• watchdog_cdev_unregister(9)
• watchdog_dev_register(9)
• watchdog_dev_unregister(9)
• watchdog_set_last_hw_keepalive(9)
• watchdog_dev_init(9)
• watchdog_dev_exit(9)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 go hold your lock and get your status flags, main character energy only. 🌈⭐💜

shoutout to ./drivers/watchdog and the October 2026 era for bringing us this one — mwah, iconic, periodt. 🎀🦋