Re: [PATCH v3] sched: Fix broken setscheduler()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 - 06:41:31 EST


On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>
> I decided to run my tests on linux-next, and my wakeup_rt tracer was
> broken. After running a bisect, I found that the problem commit was:
>
> linux-next commit c365c292d059
> "sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()"
>
> And the reason the wake_rt tracer test was failing, was because it had
> no RT task to trace. I first noticed this when running with
> sched_switch event and saw that my RT task still had normal SCHED_OTHER
> priority. Looking at the problem commit, I found:
>
> - p->normal_prio = normal_prio(p);
> - p->prio = rt_mutex_getprio(p);
>
> With no
>
> + p->normal_prio = normal_prio(p);
> + p->prio = rt_mutex_getprio(p);
>
> Reading what the commit is suppose to do, I realize that the p->prio
> can't be set if the task is boosted with a higher prio, but the
> p->normal_prio still needs to be set regardless, otherwise, when the
> task is deboosted, it wont get the new priority.
>
> The p->prio has to be set before "check_class_changed()" is called,
> otherwise the class wont be changed.
>
> Also added fix to newprio to include a check for deadline policy that
> was missing. This change was suggested by Juri Lelli.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140306120438.638bfe94@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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