Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.9-rt21

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 17:05 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
> > Dear RT Folks,
> > 
> > I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.9-rt21 release. 3.6.7-rt18, 3.6.8-rt19
> > and 3.6.9-rt20 are not announced updates to the respective 3.6.y
> > stable releases without any RT changes
> > 
> > Changes since 3.6.9-rt20:
> > 
> >    * Fix the PREEMPT_LAZY implementation on ARM
> > 
> >    * Fix the RCUTINY issues
> > 
> >    * Fix a long standing scheduler bug (See commit log of
> >      sched-enqueue-to-head.patch)
> 
> That last has an oversight buglet.
> 
> sched: add missing userspace->kernel struct sched_param.sched_priority inversion
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/core.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4624,7 +4624,7 @@ static int __sched_setscheduler(struct t
>  	p->sched_reset_on_fork = reset_on_fork;
>  
>  	oldprio = p->prio;
> -	if (oldprio == param->sched_priority)
> +	if (oldprio == (MAX_RT_PRIO - 1) - param->sched_priority)
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	on_rq = p->on_rq;

Duh, yes. But there is another one here:

+               enqueue_task(rq, p, oldprio < param->sched_priority ?
+                            ENQUEUE_HEAD : 0);

Bah. This reverse user/kernel priority nonsense really should go away!

Thanks,

	tglx
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