sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()

If a PI boosted task policy/priority is modified by a setscheduler()
call we unconditionally dequeue and requeue the task if it is on the
runqueue even if the new priority is lower than the current effective
boosted priority. This can result in undesired reordering of the
priority bucket list.

If the new priority is less or equal than the current effective we
just store the new parameters in the task struct and leave the
scheduler class and the runqueue untouched. This is handled when the
task deboosts itself. Only if the new priority is higher than the
effective boosted priority we apply the change immediately.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Rebase ontop of v3.14-rc1. ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391803122-4425-7-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 2e960a2..aa4dff0 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -213,6 +213,18 @@ struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *task)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Called by sched_setscheduler() to check whether the priority change
+ * is overruled by a possible priority boosting.
+ */
+int rt_mutex_check_prio(struct task_struct *task, int newprio)
+{
+	if (!task_has_pi_waiters(task))
+		return 0;
+
+	return task_top_pi_waiter(task)->task->prio <= newprio;
+}
+
+/*
  * Adjust the priority of a task, after its pi_waiters got modified.
  *
  * This can be both boosting and unboosting. task->pi_lock must be held.