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Bug 160752

Summary: accounting of SETITIMER_PROF inaccurate
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Issue Tracker <tao>
Component: kernelAssignee: Don Howard <dhoward>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: petrides, tao
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-663 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-09-28 15:23:30 UTC Type: ---
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Description Flags
correct behaviour of SIGPROF/itimer.
none
Norm's (correct) original suggestion. none

Description Issue Tracker 2005-06-17 03:53:13 UTC 
Escalated to Bugzilla from IssueTracker
Comment 12 Don Howard 2005-06-29 20:58:23 UTC 
Created attachment 116147 [details]
correct behaviour of SIGPROF/itimer.
Comment 21 Peter Martuccelli 2005-07-13 18:01:50 UTC 
Patch has been submitted, pending review, on schedule for release in RHEL3 U6.
Comment 22 Ernie Petrides 2005-07-13 23:38:56 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U6
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-32.11.EL).
Comment 23 Tom Kincaid 2005-07-14 13:46:59 UTC 
QE ACK
Comment 25 Don Howard 2005-07-15 07:21:06 UTC 
Created attachment 116792 [details]
Norm's (correct) original suggestion.
Comment 27 Bryan Mason 2005-07-15 19:07:48 UTC 
I just built a test kernel based on 2.4.21-32 and sent it to DreamWorks for testing.
Comment 32 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-28 15:23:30 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html