Re: RFC: SysRq nice-all-RT-tasks is broken

[Laurent Dufour]

On 08/03/2017 18:46, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 12:40:12 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if we should just have a special flag sent by that sysrq
>> trigger. Since it is causing all tasks to go "nice" there's no need to
>> do the pi chain walk in __sched_setscheduler().
> 
> Hah, there already is a flag!
> 
> Laurent, can you test this patch:

Tested on ppc64, no more panic \o/

FWIW,
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Laurent.

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 3b31fc0..7292fa9 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4129,8 +4129,8 @@ static int __sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p,
>  	int queue_flags = DEQUEUE_SAVE | DEQUEUE_MOVE;
>  	struct rq *rq;
> 
> -	/* May grab non-irq protected spin_locks: */
> -	BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
> +	/* The pi code expects interrupts enabled */
> +	BUG_ON(pi && in_interrupt());
>  recheck:
>  	/* Double check policy once rq lock held: */
>  	if (policy < 0) {
>