linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:37:13 -0500
From:	Paul Fulghum <paulkf@...rogate.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	ak@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 18:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing
> anything about.  The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu memory in
> the kstat structure.
> 
> I assume you have a large NR_CPUS?  Decreasing it should help.

It was using the Fedora Core 5 default of 255.
Reducing it to 2 makes it work.

So the timer int 0 problem is specific to the machine.
I'm guessing that the cheap HP machine using the ATI chipset
is one of the boards Andi was talking about.

--
Paul



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/