[PATCH] Force processes to non-realtime before mm_exit

From: Brian Silverman
Date: Fri Jun 03 2016 - 19:18:53 EST


Without this, a realtime process which has called mlockall exiting
causes large latencies for other realtime processes at the same or
lower priorities. This seems like a fairly common use case too, because
realtime processes generally want their memory locked into RAM.

Signed-off-by: Brian Silverman <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/exit.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a0cf72b..68a97df 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -730,6 +730,12 @@ void do_exit(long code)
tsk->exit_code = code;
taskstats_exit(tsk, group_dead);

+ if (tsk->policy == SCHED_FIFO || tsk->policy == SCHED_RR) {
+ struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
+
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
+ }
+
exit_mm(tsk);

if (group_dead)
--
2.1.4