Re: [PATCH backport 4.11] alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals

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On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 02:24:37PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> commit ff86bf0c65f14346bf2440534f9ba5ac232c39a0 upstream.
> 
> The alarmtimer code has another source of potentially rearming itself too
> fast. Interval timers with a very samll interval have a similar CPU hog
> effect as the previously fixed overflow issue.

<snip>

thanks for the backport, now applied to all stable trees.

greg k-h



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