sched/core: Allow __sched_setscheduler() in interrupts when PI is not used
When priority inheritance was added back in 2.6.18 to sched_setscheduler(), it added a path to taking an rt-mutex wait_lock, which is not IRQ safe. As PI is not a common occurrence, lockdep will likely never trigger if sched_setscheduler was called from interrupt context. A BUG_ON() was added to trigger if __sched_setscheduler() was ever called from interrupt context because there was a possibility to take the wait_lock. Today the wait_lock is irq safe, but the path to taking it in sched_setscheduler() is the same as the path to taking it from normal context. The wait_lock is taken with raw_spin_lock_irq() and released with raw_spin_unlock_irq() which will indiscriminately enable interrupts, which would be bad in interrupt context. The problem is that normalize_rt_tasks, which is called by triggering the sysrq nice-all-RT-tasks was changed to call __sched_setscheduler(), and this is done from interrupt context! Now __sched_setscheduler() takes a "pi" parameter that is used to know if the priority inheritance should be called or not. As the BUG_ON() only cares about calling the PI code, it should only bug if called from interrupt context with the "pi" parameter set to true. Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: dbc7f069 ("sched: Use replace normalize_task() with __sched_setscheduler()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170308124654.10e598f2@gandalf.local.homeSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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