linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 02/15] sched/core: make sched_setattr able to tune the current policy

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:32:56 +0000
From:   Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Steve Muckle <smuckle@...gle.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 02/15] sched/core: make sched_setattr able to tune the current policy

Currently, sched_setattr mandates that a policy is always specified.
Since utilization clamp attributes could apply across different
scheduling policies (i.e. all but SCHED_DEADLINE), this requires also
to always know which policy a task has before changing its clamp values.

This is not just cumbersome but it's also racy, indeed we cannot be
sure that a task policy has been changed in between its policy read and
the actual clamp value change. Sometimes however, this could be the
actual use-case, we wanna change the clamps without affecting the
policy.

Let's fix this adding an additional attribute flag
(SCHED_FLAG_TUNE_POLICY) which, when specified, will ensure to always
force the usage of the current policy. This is done by re-using the
SETPARAM_POLICY thing we already have for the sched_setparam syscall,
thus extending its usage to the non-POSIX sched_setattr while not
exposing that internal concept to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@...gle.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@...r.kernel.org

---
Changes in v5:
 Message-ID: <20180905110108.GC20267@...alhost.localdomain>
 - allow to change clamp values without affecting current policy
---
 include/uapi/linux/sched.h |  6 +++++-
 kernel/sched/core.c        | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
index c27d6e81517b..62498d749bec 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
 /* SCHED_ISO: reserved but not implemented yet */
 #define SCHED_IDLE		5
 #define SCHED_DEADLINE		6
+/* Must be the last entry: used check attr.policy values */
+#define SCHED_POLICY_MAX	7
 
 /* Can be ORed in to make sure the process is reverted back to SCHED_NORMAL on fork */
 #define SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK     0x40000000
@@ -50,11 +52,13 @@
 #define SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK	0x01
 #define SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM		0x02
 #define SCHED_FLAG_DL_OVERRUN		0x04
-#define SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP		0x08
+#define SCHED_FLAG_TUNE_POLICY		0x08
+#define SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP		0x10
 
 #define SCHED_FLAG_ALL	(SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK	| \
 			 SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM		| \
 			 SCHED_FLAG_DL_OVERRUN		| \
+			 SCHED_FLAG_TUNE_POLICY		| \
 			 SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP)
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_SCHED_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3701bb1e6698..9a2e12eaa377 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4595,8 +4595,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
 
-	if ((int)attr.sched_policy < 0)
+	/*
+	 * A valid policy has always to be required from userspace.  Unless
+	 * the SCHED_FLAG_TUNE_POLICY is set, in which case, the current
+	 * policy will be enforced for this call.
+	 */
+	if (attr.sched_policy >= SCHED_POLICY_MAX &&
+	    !(attr.sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_TUNE_POLICY)) {
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	if (attr.sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_TUNE_POLICY)
+		attr.sched_policy = SETPARAM_POLICY;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	retval = -ESRCH;
-- 
2.18.0