On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:12:51 -0000 > Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > The RTC hrtimer is self rearming. We really need to limit the > > frequency to something sensible. > > > Cc: sta...@kernel.org > > Why? What failures does the current code cause? What effect do these > failures have upon users?
Due to the hrtimer self rearming mode a user can DoS the machine simply because it's starved by hrtimer events. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
