Yes. But dying kernel doesn’t mean it CAN NOT INCREMENT jiffies. do_timer should do the job until kernel takes its last breathe and more precisely CPU0 take its last breathe by halting itself as its last instruction.
Regards, -Oza -----Original Message----- From: Mike Galbraith [mailto:umgwanakikb...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:25 AM To: Oza (Pawandeep) Oza Cc: pawandeep oza; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; malayasen rout Subject: Re: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17 On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 05:12 +0000, Oza (Pawandeep) Oza wrote: > But after Crash, jiffies do not increment. Your kernel said "I'M DEAD", that's a good reason to believe it. -Mike
