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
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