Re: [BUG] [ tip/sched/core ] System unresponsive after booting

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 01/16/2014 04:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 03:30:34PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 01/16/2014 03:25 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 03:20:20PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> Already tested. The last commits do not change the issue described above.
>>>
>>> Bummer, ok, what version of Ubuntu/rsyslogd are you using? I have a
>>> laptop around that should have some recent ubuntu on it, let me go find
>>> it.
>>
>> It is a Ubuntu 12.04 and rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8.4
>
> My laptop has 12.10, I've not yet tried to reproduce but while staring
> at the code I noticed a difference with the other can_nice() tests.
>
> Could you try the below while I build a pristine tip/master for the
> laptop?

Yes, it fixes the issue.

> ---
>   kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 0326c06953eb..e4a3f7e3d613 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3298,7 +3298,7 @@ static int __sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p,
>   	 */
>   	if (user && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
>   		if (fair_policy(policy)) {
> -			if (!can_nice(p, attr->sched_nice))
> +			if (attr->sched_nice < TASK_NICE(p) && !can_nice(p, attr->sched_nice))
>   				return -EPERM;
>   		}
>
>


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