linux-kernel - RE: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 05:12:11 +0000
From:	"Oza (Pawandeep) Oza" <oza@...adcom.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
CC:	pawandeep oza <oza.contri.linux.kernel@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	malayasen rout <malayasen.rout@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17

Solution Statement: Fix the UTTERLY DEADLY bug.

Oza: 
that BUG() is LEGAL. Kernel is not a problem there.
Somebody else outside of kernel/ARM (some other HW raises the bug), and send indication to kernel that I am not alive.
So kernel choose to CRASH ITSELF.

So that is legal crash and wanted Crash.

But after Crash, jiffies do not increment.


Regards,
-Oza


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Galbraith [mailto:umgwanakikbuti@...il.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 10:39 AM
To: Oza (Pawandeep) Oza
Cc: pawandeep oza; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; malayasen rout
Subject: Re: [KERNEL BUG] do_timer/tick_handover_do_timer 3.10.17

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 04:37 +0000, Oza (Pawandeep) Oza wrote:
> Problem Statement: the timkeeping is stopped, do_timer is no more a
> job of cpu0.
> 
> The reason: the variable "tick_do_timer_cpu" is not set to correct CPU
> (cpu0)
> And when BUG() happens, the tick_do_timer_cpu variable stay set to 1,
> 2 or 3 (we have 4 cores)

Solution Statement: Fix the UTTERLY DEADLY bug.

	-Mike