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doc: release notes 2.6: Add notes for Task Watchdog
This new subsystem was introduced in 2.6 for the first time. Signed-off-by: Martin Jäger <[email protected]>
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doc/releases/release-notes-2.6.rst

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* Storage
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* Task Watchdog
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* This new subsystem was added with this release and allows supervision of
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individual threads. It is based on a regularly updated kernel timer,
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whose ISR is never actually called in regular system operation.
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An existing hardware watchdog can be used as an optional fallback if the
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task watchdog itself gets stuck.
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* Tracing
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* ``CONFIG_TRACING_CPU_STATS`` was removed in favor of

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