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Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:15:31 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mgalbraith@...e.de, hpa@...or.com,
	mingo@...hat.com, ncrao@...gle.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	efault@....de, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:sched/urgent] sched, cgroups: Fix MIN_SHARES on 64-bit boxen

Commit-ID:  cd62287e364c0d15d517c6ced4e4808b54711475
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/cd62287e364c0d15d517c6ced4e4808b54711475
Author:     Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:03:20 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:25:03 +0200

sched, cgroups: Fix MIN_SHARES on 64-bit boxen

Commit c8b28116 ("sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution")
intended to have no user-visible effect, but allows setting
cpu.shares to < MIN_SHARES, which the user then sees.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307192600.8618.3.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    9 +++------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 3f2e502..9769c75 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -292,8 +292,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(task_group_lock);
  * (The default weight is 1024 - so there's no practical
  *  limitation from this.)
  */
-#define MIN_SHARES	2
-#define MAX_SHARES	(1UL << (18 + SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION))
+#define MIN_SHARES	(1UL <<  1)
+#define MAX_SHARES	(1UL << 18)
 
 static int root_task_group_load = ROOT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD;
 #endif
@@ -8450,10 +8450,7 @@ int sched_group_set_shares(struct task_group *tg, unsigned long shares)
 	if (!tg->se[0])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (shares < MIN_SHARES)
-		shares = MIN_SHARES;
-	else if (shares > MAX_SHARES)
-		shares = MAX_SHARES;
+	shares = clamp(shares, scale_load(MIN_SHARES), scale_load(MAX_SHARES));
 
 	mutex_lock(&shares_mutex);
 	if (tg->shares == shares)
--
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