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Thomas Gleixner authored
Due to the hrtimer self rearming mode a user can DoS the machine simply
because it's starved by hrtimer events.

The RTC hrtimer is self rearming.  We really need to limit the frequency
to something sensible.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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