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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: "Oza (Pawandeep) Oza" <oza@broadcom.com>
Cc: pawandeep oza <oza.contri.linux.kernel@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	malayasen rout <malayasen.rout@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 08:54:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430981678.2955.121.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C6899BCED92C94EBDCC00F80838E3D52113A8D3@SJEXCHMB06.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 05:58 +0000, Oza (Pawandeep) Oza wrote:
> 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.

Feel free to add a redundant timer subsystem lest we BUG() in there, and
whatever else you need to guarantee a perfect orderly death for your
box.  I prefer live boxen, would make that BUG() go away.

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-06 17:27 [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17 pawandeep oza
2015-05-07  3:22 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-07  4:37   ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-07  5:08     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-07  5:12       ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-07  5:54         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-07  5:58           ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-07  6:54             ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2015-05-07  7:05               ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-07  8:29                 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-07  8:47                   ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-08  4:16                   ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-08  5:12                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-08  5:21                       ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
2015-05-07  8:19               ` Oza (Pawandeep) Oza

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