[grsec] Oddball raid issue?

[Adam Majer]

Eric Hidle wrote:

> Hey all. I installed grsec on 2.4.28 last night and noticed something
> strange with respect to the linux raid driver. Here's some output from
> 'top' to demonstrate:
>
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
>
>   12 root     18446744073709551615 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0 
> 0.0   0:00   0 mdrecoveryd
>   13 root     18446744073709551615 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0 
> 0.0   0:02   0 raid5d
>
> This happened just after booting the new kernel.. the raid5 array I am
> using for /home works just fine, and there are no system issues that I
> can see, so this is more of a curiosity question than anything else...
> but what gives? :)


calc 18446744073709551615 - 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
        0

So that PRI is (unsigned long long)-1 a.k.a. the largest unsigned 64-bit
integer.

- Adam