sched: SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR watchdog timer

Introduce a new rlimit that allows the user to set a runtime timeout on
real-time tasks their slice. Once this limit is exceeded the task will receive
SIGXCPU.

So it measures runtime since the last sleep.

Input and ideas by Thomas Gleixner and Lennart Poettering.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/resource.h b/include/asm-generic/resource.h
index a4a22cc35898..587566f95f6c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/resource.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/resource.h
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 #define RLIMIT_NICE             13      /* max nice prio allowed to raise to
                                            0-39 for nice level 19 .. -20 */
 #define RLIMIT_RTPRIO           14      /* maximum realtime priority */
-
-#define RLIM_NLIMITS            15
+#define RLIMIT_RTTIME           15      /* timeout for RT tasks in us */
+#define RLIM_NLIMITS            16
 
 /*
  * SuS says limits have to be unsigned.
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
         [RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE]       = {   MQ_BYTES_MAX,   MQ_BYTES_MAX },   \
         [RLIMIT_NICE]           = { 0, 0 },                             \
         [RLIMIT_RTPRIO]         = { 0, 0 },                             \
+        [RLIMIT_RTTIME]         = {  RLIM_INFINITY,  RLIM_INFINITY },   \
 }
 
 #endif  /* __KERNEL__ */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a06d09ebd5c6..fe3f8fbc614e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
 struct sched_rt_entity {
         struct list_head run_list;
         unsigned int time_slice;
+        unsigned long timeout;
 };
 
 struct task_struct {