[PATCH 2/2] sched/rt: sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice show default timeslice after reset

From: Cyril Hrubis
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 06:36:58 EST


The sched_rr_timeslice can be reset to default by writing value that is
<= 0. However after reading from this file we always got the last value
written, which is not useful at all.

$ echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
-1

Fix this by setting the variable that holds the sysctl file value to the
jiffies_to_msecs(RR_TIMESLICE) in case that <= 0 value was written.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx>
CC: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/rt.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 185d3d749f6b..0597ba0f85ff 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -3062,6 +3062,9 @@ static int sched_rr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
sched_rr_timeslice =
sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice <= 0 ? RR_TIMESLICE :
msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice);
+
+ if (sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice <= 0)
+ sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = jiffies_to_msecs(RR_TIMESLICE);
}
mutex_unlock(&mutex);

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2.41.0