This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sched-fix-rlimit_rttime-when-pi-boosting-to-rt.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 746db9443ea57fd9c059f62c4bfbf41cf224fe13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Silverman <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:23:56 -0800
Subject: sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT

From: Brian Silverman <[email protected]>

commit 746db9443ea57fd9c059f62c4bfbf41cf224fe13 upstream.

When non-realtime tasks get priority-inheritance boosted to a realtime
scheduling class, RLIMIT_RTTIME starts to apply to them. However, the
counter used for checking this (the same one used for SCHED_RR
timeslices) was not getting reset. This meant that tasks running with a
non-realtime scheduling class which are repeatedly boosted to a realtime
one, but never block while they are running realtime, eventually hit the
timeout without ever running for a time over the limit. This patch
resets the realtime timeslice counter when un-PI-boosting from an RT to
a non-RT scheduling class.

I have some test code with two threads and a shared PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT
mutex which induces priority boosting and spins while boosted that gets
killed by a SIGXCPU on non-fixed kernels but doesn't with this patch
applied. It happens much faster with a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, and
does happen eventually with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels.

Signed-off-by: Brian Silverman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/sched/core.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2980,6 +2980,8 @@ void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct
        } else {
                if (dl_prio(oldprio))
                        p->dl.dl_boosted = 0;
+               if (rt_prio(oldprio))
+                       p->rt.timeout = 0;
                p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
        }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/sched-fix-rlimit_rttime-when-pi-boosting-to-rt.patch
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