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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>2007-05-08 00:28:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:07 -0700
commitb73a7e76c1eeaa770a41554698917c3c45686a07 (patch)
tree70c9016ca24bc06d1781ace007ce557bbe3d3cf8 /kernel
parent6672f76a5a1878d42264c1deba8f1ab52b4618d9 (diff)
downloadlinux-b73a7e76c1eeaa770a41554698917c3c45686a07.tar.gz
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness.  Such tasks were always scheduled
at nice level -5 and, at that time, udev stole us the CPU time with -5.

Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/10/85

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 11c584cd16b3..49cc4b9c1a8d 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
 	set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
 
+	/*
+	 * Our parent is keventd, which runs with elevated scheduling priority.
+	 * Avoid propagating that into the userspace child.
+	 */
+	set_user_nice(current, 0);
+
 	retval = -EPERM;
 	if (current->fs->root)
 		retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,