Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> writes:
> From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> 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?
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Måns Rullgård
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