From: Liu Song <fishland@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 2f78a115d34c..296131450414 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static void sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup(int cpu); /* rcuc/rcub kthread realtime priority */ static int kthread_prio = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_BOOST) ? 1 : 0; -module_param(kthread_prio, int, 0644); +module_param(kthread_prio, int, 0444); /* Delay in jiffies for grace-period initialization delays, debug only. */ -- 2.17.1
