sched/headers: Move various ABI definitions to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>

Move scheduler ABI types (struct sched_attr, struct sched_param, etc.) into
the new UAPI header.

This further reduces the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h>.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 68 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
index d162d315f4b5..307acbc82d80 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
@@ -3,4 +3,72 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
+struct sched_param {
+        int sched_priority;
+};
+
+#define SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0    48      /* sizeof first published struct */
+
+/*
+ * Extended scheduling parameters data structure.
+ *
+ * This is needed because the original struct sched_param can not be
+ * altered without introducing ABI issues with legacy applications
+ * (e.g., in sched_getparam()).
+ *
+ * However, the possibility of specifying more than just a priority for
+ * the tasks may be useful for a wide variety of application fields, e.g.,
+ * multimedia, streaming, automation and control, and many others.
+ *
+ * This variant (sched_attr) is meant at describing a so-called
+ * sporadic time-constrained task. In such model a task is specified by:
+ *  - the activation period or minimum instance inter-arrival time;
+ *  - the maximum (or average, depending on the actual scheduling
+ *    discipline) computation time of all instances, a.k.a. runtime;
+ *  - the deadline (relative to the actual activation time) of each
+ *    instance.
+ * Very briefly, a periodic (sporadic) task asks for the execution of
+ * some specific computation --which is typically called an instance--
+ * (at most) every period. Moreover, each instance typically lasts no more
+ * than the runtime and must be completed by time instant t equal to
+ * the instance activation time + the deadline.
+ *
+ * This is reflected by the actual fields of the sched_attr structure:
+ *
+ *  @size               size of the structure, for fwd/bwd compat.
+ *
+ *  @sched_policy       task's scheduling policy
+ *  @sched_flags        for customizing the scheduler behaviour
+ *  @sched_nice         task's nice value      (SCHED_NORMAL/BATCH)
+ *  @sched_priority     task's static priority (SCHED_FIFO/RR)
+ *  @sched_deadline     representative of the task's deadline
+ *  @sched_runtime      representative of the task's runtime
+ *  @sched_period       representative of the task's period
+ *
+ * Given this task model, there are a multiplicity of scheduling algorithms
+ * and policies, that can be used to ensure all the tasks will make their
+ * timing constraints.
+ *
+ * As of now, the SCHED_DEADLINE policy (sched_dl scheduling class) is the
+ * only user of this new interface. More information about the algorithm
+ * available in the scheduling class file or in Documentation/.
+ */
+struct sched_attr {
+        u32 size;
+
+        u32 sched_policy;
+        u64 sched_flags;
+
+        /* SCHED_NORMAL, SCHED_BATCH */
+        s32 sched_nice;
+
+        /* SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR */
+        u32 sched_priority;
+
+        /* SCHED_DEADLINE */
+        u64 sched_runtime;
+        u64 sched_deadline;
+        u64 sched_period;
+};
+
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_SCHED_TYPES_H */