sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT
commit 746db944 upstream. When non-realtime tasks get priority-inheritance boosted to a realtime scheduling class, RLIMIT_RTTIME starts to apply to them. However, the counter used for checking this (the same one used for SCHED_RR timeslices) was not getting reset. This meant that tasks running with a non-realtime scheduling class which are repeatedly boosted to a realtime one, but never block while they are running realtime, eventually hit the timeout without ever running for a time over the limit. This patch resets the realtime timeslice counter when un-PI-boosting from an RT to a non-RT scheduling class. I have some test code with two threads and a shared PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex which induces priority boosting and spins while boosted that gets killed by a SIGXCPU on non-fixed kernels but doesn't with this patch applied. It happens much faster with a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, and does happen eventually with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels. Signed-off-by: Brian Silverman <brian@peloton-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: austin@peloton-tech.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424305436-6716-1-git-send-email-brian@peloton-tech.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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