linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/core: Fix cpu controller for !RT_GROUP

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Message-Id: <20190605114935.7683-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed,  5 Jun 2019 13:49:35 +0200
From:   Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org, tj@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it, bristot@...hat.com, lizefan@...wei.com,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/core: Fix cpu controller for !RT_GROUP_SCHED

On !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED configurations it is currently not possible to
move RT tasks between cgroups to which cpu controller has been attached;
but it is oddly possible to first move tasks around and then make them
RT (setschedule to FIFO/RR).

E.g.:

  # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1
  # chrt -fp 10 $$
  # echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1/tasks
  bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # chrt -op 0 $$
  # echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1/tasks
  # chrt -fp 10 $$
  # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1/tasks
  2345
  2598
  # chrt -p 2345
  pid 2345's current scheduling policy: SCHED_FIFO
  pid 2345's current scheduling priority: 10

Existing code comes with a comment saying the "we don't support RT-tasks
being in separate groups". Such comment is however stale and belongs to
pre-RT_GROUP_SCHED times. Also, it doesn't make much sense for
!RT_GROUP_ SCHED configurations, since checks related to RT bandwidth
are not performed at all in these cases.

Make moving RT tasks between cpu controller groups viable by removing
special case check for RT (and DEADLINE) tasks.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
---
Hi,

Although I'm pretty assertive in the changelog, I actually wonder what
am I missing here and why (if) current behavior is needed and makes
sense.

Any input?

Thanks,

Juri
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 29984d8c41f0..37386b8bd1ad 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6464,10 +6464,6 @@ static int cpu_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 #ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
 		if (!sched_rt_can_attach(css_tg(css), task))
 			return -EINVAL;
-#else
-		/* We don't support RT-tasks being in separate groups */
-		if (task->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
-			return -EINVAL;
 #endif
 		/*
 		 * Serialize against wake_up_new_task() such that if its
-- 
2.17.2