Re: [patch] sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks)

[Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com>]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Subject: [patch] sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks)
>
> Gene Heskett reported the following problem while testing CFS: SysRq-N 
> is not always effective in normalizing tasks back to SCHED_OTHER.
>
> the reason for that turns out to be the following bug: 
> normalize_rt_tasks() uses for_each_process() to iterate through all 
> tasks in the system. The problem is, this method does not iterate 
> through all tasks, it iterates through all thread groups. The proper 
> mechanism to enumerate all tasks is to use a do_each_thread() + 
> while_each_thread() loop.

Was this always a bug or did the meaning of for_each_process() change
since this code was added?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mans@mansr.com

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