Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 3 authors, 2019-05-09

Re: [PATCH v8 05/16] sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2019-05-08 19:21:42
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:41:41AM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
index 22627f80063e..075c610adf45 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
 /* SCHED_ISO: reserved but not implemented yet */
 #define SCHED_IDLE		5
 #define SCHED_DEADLINE		6
+/* Must be the last entry: used to sanity check attr.policy values */
+#define SCHED_POLICY_MAX	SCHED_DEADLINE
This is a wee bit sad to put in a uapi header; but yeah, where else :/

Another option would be something like:

enum {
	SCHED_NORMAL = 0,
	SCHED_FIFO = 1,
	SCHED_RR = 2,
	SCHED_BATCH = 3,
	/* SCHED_ISO = 4, reserved */
	SCHED_IDLE = 5,
	SCHED_DEADLINE = 6,
	SCHED_POLICY_NR
};
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 /* Can be ORed in to make sure the process is reverted back to SCHED_NORMAL on fork */
 #define SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK     0x40000000
@@ -50,9 +52,11 @@
 #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 */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index d368ac26b8aa..20efb32e1a7e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4907,8 +4907,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
 
-	if ((int)attr.sched_policy < 0)
+	/*
+	 * A valid policy is always required from userspace, unless
+	 * SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY is set and the current policy
+	 * is enforced for this call.
+	 */
+	if (attr.sched_policy > SCHED_POLICY_MAX &&
+	    !(attr.sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY)) {
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
And given I just looked at those darn SCHED_* things, I now note the
above does 'funny' things when passed: attr.policy=4.
+	if (attr.sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY)
+		attr.sched_policy = SETPARAM_POLICY;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	retval = -ESRCH;
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