Re: [PATCH v2, RESEND] sched/rt: Try to restart rt period timer when rt runtime exceeded

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Dec 04 2021 - 06:34:45 EST


On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 03:36:18AM +0000, Li Hua wrote:
> When rt_runtime is modified from -1 to a valid control value, it may
> cause the task to be throttled all the time. Operations like the following
> will trigger the bug. E.g:
> 1. echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
> 2. Run a FIFO task named A that executes while(1)
> 3. echo 950000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
>
> When rt_runtime is -1, The rt period timer will not be activated when task
> A enqueued. And then the task will be throttled after setting rt_runtime to
> 950,000. The task will always be throttled because the rt period timer is
> not activated.
>
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Li Hua <hucool.lihua@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, do you think you can reply here with a Fixes: tag so I can add
it?