On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:48:51PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:3570 sched_getparam(3570, { 0 }) = 0
3570 sched_getscheduler(3570) = 0 (SCHED_OTHER)
3570 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3570 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3571 sched_setscheduler(3572, SCHED_OTHER, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_setscheduler resumed> ) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_get_priority_min resumed> ) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_get_priority_max resumed> ) = 0
3571 sched_setscheduler(3573, SCHED_OTHER, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_setscheduler resumed> ) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
permitted)
3571 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_get_priority_min resumed> ) = 0
3571 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_get_priority_max resumed> ) = 0
3571 sched_setscheduler(3574, SCHED_OTHER, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
3571 <... sched_setscheduler resumed> ) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
permitted)
The same strace but on a kernel which does not hang. The calls to
sched_setscheduler do not fail.
3292 sched_getparam(3292, { 0 }) = 0
3292 sched_getscheduler(3292) = 0 (SCHED_OTHER)
3292 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3292 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER) = 0
3293 sched_setscheduler(3294, SCHED_OTHER, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_setscheduler resumed> ) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_get_priority_min resumed> ) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_get_priority_max resumed> ) = 0
3293 sched_setscheduler(3295, SCHED_OTHER, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_setscheduler resumed> ) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_min(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_get_priority_min resumed> ) = 0
3293 sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_OTHER <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_get_priority_max resumed> ) = 0
3293 sched_setscheduler(3296, SCHED_OTHER, { 0 } <unfinished ...>
3293 <... sched_setscheduler resumed> ) = 0
The EPERM error comes from kernel/sched/core.c:3303
...
if (fair_policy(policy)) {
if (!can_nice(p, attr->sched_nice))
return -EPERM;
}
...
But I don't know why this is leading to block a process or making rsyslogd
being not woken up by a packet coming in the af_unix socket.
Could you test with a fresh tip/master, Ingo just pushed out a stack of
fixes, in particularly:
e3de300d1212b ("sched: Preserve the nice level over sched_setscheduler() and sched_setparam() calls")
39fd8fd22b322 ("sched: Fix up scheduler syscall LTP fails")
Could have affected things.
Meanwhile I'll try and better read what the above says.