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authorLiu Song <fishland@aliyun.com>2019-02-21 22:13:27 +0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-03-26 14:37:49 -0700
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parent884157cef0acf05648fe921d80c680afababb428 (diff)
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rcu: Set rcutree.kthread_prio sysfs access to read-only
The rcutree.kthread_prio kernel-boot parameter is used to set the priority for boost (rcub), per-CPU (rcuc), and grace-period (rcu_preempt or rcu_sched) kthreads. It is also used by rcutorture to check whether it is possible to meaningfully test RCU priority boosting. However, all of these cases will either ignore or be confused by any post-boot changes to rcutree.kthread_prio. Note that the user really can change the priorities of all of these kthreads using chrt, given sufficient privileges. Therefore, the read-write nature of sysfs access to rcutree.kthread_prio is thus at best an attractive nuisance. This commit therefore changes sysfs access to rcutree.kthread_prio to be read-only. Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 2f78a115d34c..296131450414 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static void sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup(int cpu);
/* rcuc/rcub kthread realtime priority */
static int kthread_prio = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) ? 1 : 0;
-module_param(kthread_prio, int, 0644);
+module_param(kthread_prio, int, 0444);
/* Delay in jiffies for grace-period initialization delays, debug only. */