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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Ottavio Campana <ottavio.campana@dei.unipd.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, error27@gmail.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Oops when trying to create more than 16000 timers
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:44:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4946CFCC.7040805@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4946DE5C.8060504@dei.unipd.it>

Hi Ottavio,

Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> I think you're simply hitting RLIMIT_SIGPENDING and then tripping over
>> a bug in alloc_posix_timer() that's fixed by commit
>> aa94fbd5ccd840c8ab26d02439ec799b03a72547 ("fix error-path NULL deref
>> in alloc_posix_timer()") in 2.6.28-rc8.
>>
>> Dan, can you please send your patch to the -stable queue as well?

Ottavio Campana wrote:
> Pekka, can this RLIMIT_SIGPENDING be modified? For my application, I
> will need 60k timers.

I'd assume you can do that via the setrlimit() system call. See the man 
page for details.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-15 16:04 Oops when trying to create more than 16000 timers Ottavio Campana
2008-12-15 16:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-15 21:41   ` Ottavio Campana
2008-12-15 21:37     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-15 22:46       ` Ottavio Campana
2008-12-15 21:44         ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-12-16 23:18       ` Greg KH

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