Re: Changing Kernel thread priorities

[Monica Puig-Pey <puigpeym@unican.es>]

El 07/06/11 11:46, Mark Hounschell escribió:
> On 06/07/2011 05:14 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> On 06/07/2011 04:40 AM, Monica Puig-Pey wrote:
>>> El 06/06/11 18:49, Mark Hounschell escribió:
>>>> On 06/06/2011 07:58 AM, Monica Puig-Pey wrote:
>>>>> El 06/06/11 13:54, Rolando Martins escribió:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I use the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PIDs=$(ps -eLo pid,cls,rtprio,pri,nice,cmd | grep -i "irq" | awk '{
>>>>>> print $1; }' | xargs echo)
>>>>>> for i in $PIDs
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> ret=$(chrt -f -p 99 $i)
>>>>>> done
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This will change the kernel thread associated with an irq handler to
>>>>>> RT FIFO prio 99.
>>>>>> Just change the script to your specific interrupt.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope it helps,
>>>>>> Rolando
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Monica Puig-Pey
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I am writing a driver which has one kernel thread associated with
>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>> I want to change the priority of this thread, so that I can
>>>>>>> specify the
>>>>>>> order in which it is scheduled following an interrupt.
>>>>>>> I'm using:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *, int, struct sched_param *);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but it doesn't work. I tried to change the priority from the
>>>>>>> init_module,
>>>>>>> and also from the Kernel Thread, but there is no way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kernel version is 2.6.31-11-rt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What do I call to change a kernel thread priority?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks you very much
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mónica
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> I need to change the priority from inside the driver, when creating
>>>>> the
>>>>> kernel thread.
>>>>> Your script is useful but it is done in user context,
>>>>> Any other help please?
>>>>
>>>> What I do is record the PID of the thread in the driver, then create an
>>>> IOCTL for your driver that user land can call that either returns the
>>>> PID so you can do it in user land, or cause the IOCTL code to do it in
>>>> the driver.
>>>>
>>>> The same can be done with the affinity of the IRQ if you record the IRQ
>>>> number.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
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>>>
>>> But I don't have de PID of my Kthread, I only have the task_struc * that
>>> gives me the function:
>>>
>>> struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
>>> void *data,
>>> const char namefmt[], ...)
>>>
>>> How could I get the PID, and which function should I use in the IOCTL
>>> (kernel context) for changing its priority?
>>>
>>
>> The PID can be obtained from within the interrupt handler its self via
>> current->pid.
>> Obviously an interrupt has to occur first but after one interrupt you
>> have it.
>>
>> Actually I had forgot how I handled this. Where I change the RT priority
>> and cpu affinity is in what used to be called the Bottom Half and the
>> IOCTL
>> referred to above simply tells the BH to do it and with what values.
>>
>
> In interrupt handler code snippet:
>
> struct task_struct *TSK;
> struct sched_param PARAM = {.sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO };
>
> TSK = current;
>
> Code snippet from BH:
>
> if (((rtom_rtprio != 0) &&
> (rtom_rtprio != PARAM.sched_priority)) ||
> (my_rtom_rtprio[BOARD] != rtom_rtprio)) {
>
> PARAM.sched_priority = rtom_rtprio;
> my_rtom_rtprio[COUNT] = rtom_rtprio;
> sched_setscheduler(TSK, SCHED_FIFO, &PARAM);
>
> set_cpus_allowed(TSK, rtom_devices[BOARD].irq_cpu_mask);
> rtom_devices[BOARD].irq_task_pid = TSK->pid;
> }
>
> rtom_rtprio and irq_cpu_mask are set by userland via an IOCTL. An
> interrupt must occur for this to happen and my BOARD never shares IRQs.
>
> Mark
>

Thanks, your idea seems to be very useful to me. I was doing it very 
similar, but I didn't use the "current" variable to know the task_struct *.

I have tried your suggestion on an easy example, but it didn't work.
Insmod returns through the kernel

	[11334.895499] kthread: Unknown symbol sched_setscheduler

Code shown below:

#include <linux/module.h>	
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>

#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>


struct task_struct *ts;

int thread(void *data)
{
   struct task_struct *TSK;
   struct sched_param PARAM = {.sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO };
   TSK = current;

   PARAM.sched_priority = 50;
   sched_setscheduler(TSK, SCHED_FIFO, &PARAM); // <-- unknown symbol??

   while(1){
     printk("Hi I am kernel thread!\n");
     msleep(100);
     if (kthread_should_stop())
       break;		
}
         return 0;
}


int init_module(void)
{
   printk(KERN_INFO "init_module() called\n");
   ts=kthread_run(thread,NULL,"kthread");
          return 0;
}

void cleanup_module(void)
{
   printk(KERN_INFO "cleanup_module() called\n");
   kthread_stop(ts);
}