linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kthread: run kthreadd with max priority SCHED

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Message-Id: <1198322478.24423.75.camel@perihelion>
Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:21:18 -0500
From:	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: run kthreadd with max priority SCHED_FIFO


On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 02:52 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:39:30 +0100 Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 04:52 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> > 
> > > So, user tasks running with SCHED_FIFO should be able to lock a system?
> > > I guess I see both sides of this argument - yes, it's userspace at
> > > fault, but in other cases when userspace is at fault, we take action
> > > (OOM, segfault, others). Isn't this situation just another case where
> > > the kernel needs to avoid the evils of userland going awry?
> > 
> > FYI, Ingo queued the below.
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/31/344
> > 
> 
> That's pretty different of course, but rlimit might be a suitable interface
> for implementing RLIMIT_MAX_CONTINUOUS_RT_MILLISECONDS.

Right. Just when I thought there was no point in continuing (Ingo having
invented everything already, as usual), this specific problem remains.

I'll try bouncing some ideas off Ingo later.

Jon.


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