rcu: Set rcutree.kthread_prio sysfs access to read-only
authorLiu Song <fishland@aliyun.com>
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:13:27 +0000 (22:13 +0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:37:49 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
commit3ffe3d1adc0b6cfb9b24db9995a537bb0aa30a8b
tree73b20bcb0515f8bd86c092221415cfb2d2b2db1f
parent884157cef0acf05648fe921d80c680afababb428
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>
kernel/rcu/tree.c