The patch titled
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-kevents-childs-priority-greediness.patch
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Subject: Fix kevent's childs priority greediness
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness. Such tasks were always scheduled
at nice level -5 and, at that time, udev stole us the CPU time with -5.
Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/10/85
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kmod.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN kernel/kmod.c~fix-kevents-childs-priority-greediness kernel/kmod.c
--- a/kernel/kmod.c~fix-kevents-childs-priority-greediness
+++ a/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void
/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
+ set_user_nice(current, 0);
retval = -EPERM;
if (current->fs->root)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
git-kbuild.patch
remove-artificial-software-max_loop-limit.patch
fix-kevents-childs-priority-greediness.patch
fix-kthread-nicenessdiff-fix.patch
vt-allow-for-the-palette-to-be-exposed-and-changed-via-sysfs.patch
vt-add-color-support-to-the-underline-and-italic-attributes.patch
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