linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: allow unsetting SCHED_RESET_ON

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:41:07 +0200
From:	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>
To:	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: allow unsetting SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK when new policy
 is not realtime

Op 17-10-12 23:18, Maarten Lankhorst schreef:
> When implementing SIGXCPU handling for a thread boosted with rtkit to realtime
> priority, I noticed that sched_setscheduler(somepid, SCHED_OTHER) would return
> -EPERM because the thread was previously SCHED_RR | SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK,
> and looking from the code that flag cannot be reset without sufficient rights.
>
Argh must not send patches right before going to bed, this leaves open a hole
if current policy is sched_idle and when nice level is at a privileged level still..

Not that I've ever seen nice level do anything. Will resend after I've had some sleep.

~Maarten
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