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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2014-07-23 17:28:26 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-07-28 10:04:14 +0200
commitc13db6b131a4388edca9867a1457b988b83902f8 (patch)
tree8cff077493d86c6213dc952358122ccc52fda606 /kernel/sched
parentsched: Robustify topology setup (diff)
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sched: Use macro for magic number of -1 for setparam
Instead of passing around a magic number -1 for the sched_setparam() policy, use a more descriptive macro name like SETPARAM_POLICY. [ based on top of Daniel's sched_setparam() fix ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira<bristot@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140723112826.6ed6cbce@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c17
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 2a36a74c16ae..2676866b4394 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3218,12 +3218,18 @@ __setparam_dl(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *attr)
dl_se->dl_yielded = 0;
}
+/*
+ * sched_setparam() passes in -1 for its policy, to let the functions
+ * it calls know not to change it.
+ */
+#define SETPARAM_POLICY -1
+
static void __setscheduler_params(struct task_struct *p,
const struct sched_attr *attr)
{
int policy = attr->sched_policy;
- if (policy == -1) /* setparam */
+ if (policy == SETPARAM_POLICY)
policy = p->policy;
p->policy = policy;
@@ -3572,11 +3578,8 @@ static int _sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
.sched_nice = PRIO_TO_NICE(p->static_prio),
};
- /*
- * Fixup the legacy SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK hack, except if
- * the policy=-1 was passed by sched_setparam().
- */
- if ((policy != -1) && (policy & SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK)) {
+ /* Fixup the legacy SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK hack. */
+ if ((policy != SETPARAM_POLICY) && (policy & SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK)) {
attr.sched_flags |= SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK;
policy &= ~SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK;
attr.sched_policy = policy;
@@ -3746,7 +3749,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setscheduler, pid_t, pid, int, policy,
*/
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_setparam, pid_t, pid, struct sched_param __user *, param)
{
- return do_sched_setscheduler(pid, -1, param);
+ return do_sched_setscheduler(pid, SETPARAM_POLICY, param);
}
/**