sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f0f831e8a345d835f4cb21bf899c50ab67042b43..62671f53202ac7d4de8037dce950c934c7a4ddbc 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3034,6 +3034,8 @@ void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio)
        } else {
                if (dl_prio(oldprio))
                        p->dl.dl_boosted = 0;
+               if (rt_prio(oldprio))
+                       p->rt.timeout = 0;
                p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
        }