Android : Watchdog is killing system server
Here goes my first fix in Android. Watchdog of the android framework is implemented to make sure the framework is rebooted in case of non-recoverable errors like deadlocks etc. Usually, i have seen frameworks where in the entire phone is rebooted upon such errors. Android is smart in the sense that its efficient by offering the framework reboot within seconds [Technically, it is just spawning of a linux process, system_server]. Monkey is a tool available to feed in random key events for stress testing and we happened to see a lot of scenarios where in the watchdog would kill the system server, causing android framework reboot. It seemed as if the root cause was within the framework and moreover it was random key events passed to the framework over many hours. The pattern to reproduce was not known but yet happened quite often. Like all bugs, it turned out to be 100% reproducible just that it took time to figure out the pattern. Monkey has an activitycontroller to report ANRs an...