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1 files changed, 51 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4a0e7b449b88..8471a0f7eb32 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5496,6 +5496,8 @@ static int _sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
* @policy: new policy.
* @param: structure containing the new RT priority.
*
+ * Use sched_set_fifo(), read its comment.
+ *
* Return: 0 on success. An error code otherwise.
*
* NOTE that the task may be already dead.
@@ -5505,13 +5507,11 @@ int sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
{
return _sched_setscheduler(p, policy, param, true);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_setscheduler);
int sched_setattr(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *attr)
{
return __sched_setscheduler(p, attr, true, true);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_setattr);
int sched_setattr_nocheck(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *attr)
{
@@ -5536,7 +5536,51 @@ int sched_setscheduler_nocheck(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
{
return _sched_setscheduler(p, policy, param, false);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_setscheduler_nocheck);
+
+/*
+ * SCHED_FIFO is a broken scheduler model; that is, it is fundamentally
+ * incapable of resource management, which is the one thing an OS really should
+ * be doing.
+ *
+ * This is of course the reason it is limited to privileged users only.
+ *
+ * Worse still; it is fundamentally impossible to compose static priority
+ * workloads. You cannot take two correctly working static prio workloads
+ * and smash them together and still expect them to work.
+ *
+ * For this reason 'all' FIFO tasks the kernel creates are basically at:
+ *
+ * MAX_RT_PRIO / 2
+ *
+ * The administrator _MUST_ configure the system, the kernel simply doesn't
+ * know enough information to make a sensible choice.
+ */
+void sched_set_fifo(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ struct sched_param sp = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO / 2 };
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &sp) != 0);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_set_fifo);
+
+/*
+ * For when you don't much care about FIFO, but want to be above SCHED_NORMAL.
+ */
+void sched_set_fifo_low(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ struct sched_param sp = { .sched_priority = 1 };
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &sp) != 0);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_set_fifo_low);
+
+void sched_set_normal(struct task_struct *p, int nice)
+{
+ struct sched_attr attr = {
+ .sched_policy = SCHED_NORMAL,
+ .sched_nice = nice,
+ };
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(sched_setattr_nocheck(p, &attr) != 0);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_set_normal);
static int
do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param)
@@ -6387,10 +6431,10 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
if (!try_get_task_stack(p))
return;
- printk(KERN_INFO "%-15.15s %c", p->comm, task_state_to_char(p));
+ pr_info("task:%-15.15s state:%c", p->comm, task_state_to_char(p));
if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING)
- printk(KERN_CONT " running task ");
+ pr_cont(" running task ");
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
free = stack_not_used(p);
#endif
@@ -6399,8 +6443,8 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
if (pid_alive(p))
ppid = task_pid_nr(rcu_dereference(p->real_parent));
rcu_read_unlock();
- printk(KERN_CONT "%5lu %5d %6d 0x%08lx\n", free,
- task_pid_nr(p), ppid,
+ pr_cont(" stack:%5lu pid:%5d ppid:%6d flags:0x%08lx\n",
+ free, task_pid_nr(p), ppid,
(unsigned long)task_thread_info(p)->flags);
print_worker_info(KERN_INFO, p);
@@ -6435,13 +6479,6 @@ void show_state_filter(unsigned long state_filter)
{
struct task_struct *g, *p;
-#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
- printk(KERN_INFO
- " task PC stack pid father\n");
-#else
- printk(KERN_INFO
- " task PC stack pid father\n");
-#endif
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process_thread(g, p) {
/*