title: Who is silently kicking the watchdog timer in Linux?
body: <p>I am using the 4.9 Linux kernel on an embedded platform and noticing that the watchdog timer is getting refreshed automatically even though I have no user-space daemon running like the <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">watchdog documentation</a> mentions.</p>