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    sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT · 746db944
    Brian Silverman authored
    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: default avatarBrian Silverman <brian@peloton-tech.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: austin@peloton-tech.com
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424305436-6716-1-git-send-email-brian@peloton-tech.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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