The priority of RCU grace period threads is set to kthread_prio when
they are launched from rcu_spawn_gp_kthread(). The same is not true
of rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread(). Accordingly, add priority elevation
to rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread().
Signed-off-by: Alison Chaiken <[email protected]>
---
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
index 8fdf44f8523f..08b5c0042979 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
@@ -1183,7 +1183,9 @@ static void rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread(int cpu)
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
struct rcu_data *rdp_gp;
struct task_struct *t;
+ struct sched_param sp;
+ sp.sched_priority = kthread_prio;
/*
* If this isn't a no-CBs CPU or if it already has an rcuo kthread,
* then nothing to do.
@@ -1199,6 +1201,8 @@ static void rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread(int cpu)
if (WARN_ONCE(IS_ERR(t), "%s: Could not start rcuo GP kthread, OOM is now expected behavior\n", __func__))
return;
WRITE_ONCE(rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread, t);
+ if (kthread_prio)
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
}
/* Spawn the kthread for this CPU. */
--
2.32.0