linux-kernel - [git pull] scheduler fix

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:33:44 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [git pull] scheduler fix


Linus, please pull the latest scheduler-fixes git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git

it's a fix for a late-breaking bug: if the root user / admin sets the 
new /sys/uids/*/cpu_share tunable too low from the default 1024 then we 
can crash/hang. [ in sched-devel.git we've already had MIN_GROUP_SHARES 
for a long time to enforce this limit - but it was not backported. ]

	Ingo

------------------>
Ingo Molnar (1):
      sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix

 sched.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 37cf07a..e76b11c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -7153,6 +7153,14 @@ int sched_group_set_shares(struct task_group *tg, unsigned long shares)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * A weight of 0 or 1 can cause arithmetics problems.
+	 * (The default weight is 1024 - so there's no practical
+	 *  limitation from this.)
+	 */
+	if (shares < 2)
+		shares = 2;
+
 	spin_lock(&tg->lock);
 	if (tg->shares == shares)
 		goto done;
--
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