genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE
In commit ee238713 ("genirq: Set irq thread to RT priority on creation") we moved the assigment of the thread's priority from the thread's function into __setup_irq(). That function may run in user context for instance if the user opens an UART node and then driver calls requests in the ->open() callback. That user may not have CAP_SYS_NICE and so the irq thread won't run with the SCHED_OTHER policy. This patch uses sched_setscheduler_nocheck() so we omit the CAP_SYS_NICE check which is otherwise required for the SCHED_OTHER policy. [bigeasy: Rewrite the changelog] Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com> Cc: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381489240-29626-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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