linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 3.4.28-rt40 tglx fix imx.c spinlock

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1302142334120.22263@ionos>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:35:03 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Tim Sander <tim@...eglstein.org>
cc:	"linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3.4.28-rt40 tglx fix imx.c spinlock

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Tim Sander wrote:
> > That's true, but w/o seing the OOM output I can't tell what's
> > exhausting the memory.
> When fuzzing the serial port one probably should switch of sysreq. It seems 
> as if there is a break send somehow and then it selects the OOM option.
> So when switching of MAGIC_SYSRQ the OOMs are gone. So its a non issue.

Amazing that you get the break+oom combo out of that fuzzer!
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