From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751605AbbEGF6l (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 01:58:41 -0400 Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:45336 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751298AbbEGF6k (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 01:58:40 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,383,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="64131964" From: "Oza (Pawandeep) Oza" To: Mike Galbraith CC: pawandeep oza , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , malayasen rout Subject: RE: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17 Thread-Topic: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17 Thread-Index: AQHQiCHu8BLREMfa/E6shm4qPfme451wTzoA//+dvtCAAH/VgP//ivjAgACB4oD//4ruMA== Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 05:58:38 +0000 Message-ID: <5C6899BCED92C94EBDCC00F80838E3D52113A8D3@SJEXCHMB06.corp.ad.broadcom.com> References: <1430968960.2955.45.camel@gmail.com> <5C6899BCED92C94EBDCC00F80838E3D52113A83F@SJEXCHMB06.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <1430975311.2955.73.camel@gmail.com> <5C6899BCED92C94EBDCC00F80838E3D52113A87B@SJEXCHMB06.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <1430978071.2955.96.camel@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1430978071.2955.96.camel@gmail.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.16.203.100] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id t475wk2l017810 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 {.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I