@@ -51,9 +51,11 @@
#define SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK 0x01
#define SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM 0x02
#define SCHED_FLAG_DL_OVERRUN 0x04
+#define SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY 0x08
#define SCHED_FLAG_ALL (SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK | \
SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM | \
- SCHED_FLAG_DL_OVERRUN)
+ SCHED_FLAG_DL_OVERRUN | \
+ SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY)
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_SCHED_H */
@@ -4886,6 +4886,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
if ((int)attr.sched_policy < 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (attr.sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY)
+ attr.sched_policy = SETPARAM_POLICY;
rcu_read_lock();
retval = -ESRCH;
The sched_setattr() syscall mandates that a policy is always specified. This requires to always know which policy a task will have when attributes are configured and this makes it impossible to add more generic task attributes valid across different scheduling policies. Reading the policy before setting generic tasks attributes is racy since we cannot be sure it is not changed concurrently. Introduce the required support to change generic task attributes without affecting the current task policy. This is done by adding an attribute flag (SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY) to enforce the usage of the current policy. Add support for the SETPARAM_POLICY policy, which is already used by the sched_setparam() POSIX syscall, to the sched_setattr() non-POSIX syscall. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> --- include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 4 +++- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)