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:umgwanakikbuti@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

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