Re: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17

[Mike Galbraith]

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 05:58 +0000, Oza (Pawandeep) Oza wrote:
> Yes.
> But dying kernel doesnât 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

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