Hello grsecurity team,
when booting an server with 2.6.32.41 Kernel patched with grsecurity-2.2.2-2.6.32.41-201106132135.patch the hard interrupts ( hi ) from the CPU(s) are very high.
As an example:
Cpu0 : 31.4%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 68.6%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 5.9%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 94.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 10.8%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 89.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 5.9%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 94.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
[~/root]# cat /proc/loadavg
2.52 1.93 0.88 1/256 5898
[~/root]#
I have also tried to disable all GRSEC options fully in the kernel config, but the problem still exists.
The problem does not occur when booting the unpatched vanilla kernel with same config.
Thanks for your help.
Greetings,
Daniel