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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/core.c | 47 |
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index b62e6aaf28f0..b792b8f0f4cf 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1653,6 +1653,9 @@ extern int idle_cpu(int cpu); extern int available_idle_cpu(int cpu); extern int sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *, int, const struct sched_param *); extern int sched_setscheduler_nocheck(struct task_struct *, int, const struct sched_param *); +extern int sched_set_fifo(struct task_struct *p); +extern int sched_set_fifo_low(struct task_struct *p); +extern int sched_set_normal(struct task_struct *p, int nice); extern int sched_setattr(struct task_struct *, const struct sched_attr *); extern int sched_setattr_nocheck(struct task_struct *, const struct sched_attr *); extern struct task_struct *idle_task(int cpu); diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 0208b71bef80..40d3939b0520 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -5124,6 +5124,8 @@ 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. @@ -5166,6 +5168,51 @@ int sched_setscheduler_nocheck(struct task_struct *p, int policy, } 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. + */ +int sched_set_fifo(struct task_struct *p) +{ + struct sched_param sp = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO / 2 }; + return sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &sp); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_set_fifo); + +/* + * For when you don't much care about FIFO, but want to be above SCHED_NORMAL. + */ +int sched_set_fifo_low(struct task_struct *p) +{ + struct sched_param sp = { .sched_priority = 1 }; + return sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &sp); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_set_fifo_low); + +int sched_set_normal(struct task_struct *p, int nice) +{ + struct sched_attr attr = { + .sched_policy = SCHED_NORMAL, + .sched_nice = nice, + }; + return sched_setattr_nocheck(p, &attr); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_set_normal); + static int do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param) { |