On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:05:50PM -0700, 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?
I would add that if we go that route, we should at least accept values that were documented as possible till now. Man rtc says 2 Hz to 8192 Hz, but Thomas' proposed patch limits it to 5000 Hz, so some breakage is to be expected. Regards, Willy _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
