Re: asterisk hangs with RT priority

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 07:37 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:12:25PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm. Do you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED set on?
> 
> I can't find such a config option, but
> 
> $ grep SCHED .config
> CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK=y
> CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED=y
> CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y
> CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y
> CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y
> # CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED is not set

> CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y
> CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK=y

So you have uid-group scheduling and RT-group scheduling enabled (a
feature that's experimental for real and has never been enabled by
default), looking at the sys_setuid() code, the real uid change is done
by switch_uid() and that doesn't have a failable scheduler hook.

The thing is, I suspect the uid you switch to doesn't have a RT runtime
quota configured, therefore the RT task that gets placed in it by
switch_uid() doesn't get to run.

[ Please read Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
  when you enable RT group scheduling ]

The correct thing would be for switch_uid() (or set_user) to fail with
-EINVAL, much like cpu_cgroup_can_attach() currently does for cgroup
grouping.

After that it demonstrates a bug in your test program, which fails to
check errors ;-)