sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to SCHED_DEADLINE

Worker kthread needs to be able to change frequency for all other
threads.

Make it special, just under STOP class.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: alessio.balsini@arm.com
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: joelaf@google.com
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: tkjos@android.com
Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204102325.5110-4-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index 8d266bc5c67d..bd5f9976892d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -474,7 +474,20 @@ static void sugov_policy_free(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
 static int sugov_kthread_create(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
 {
 	struct task_struct *thread;
-	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_USER_RT_PRIO / 2 };
+	struct sched_attr attr = {
+		.size = sizeof(struct sched_attr),
+		.sched_policy = SCHED_DEADLINE,
+		.sched_flags = SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV,
+		.sched_nice = 0,
+		.sched_priority = 0,
+		/*
+		 * Fake (unused) bandwidth; workaround to "fix"
+		 * priority inheritance.
+		 */
+		.sched_runtime	=  1000000,
+		.sched_deadline = 10000000,
+		.sched_period	= 10000000,
+	};
 	struct cpufreq_policy *policy = sg_policy->policy;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -492,10 +505,10 @@ static int sugov_kthread_create(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
 		return PTR_ERR(thread);
 	}
 
-	ret = sched_setscheduler_nocheck(thread, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
+	ret = sched_setattr_nocheck(thread, &attr);
 	if (ret) {
 		kthread_stop(thread);
-		pr_warn("%s: failed to set SCHED_FIFO\n", __func__);
+		pr_warn("%s: failed to set SCHED_DEADLINE\n", __func__);
 		return ret;
 	}