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Fix kevent's childs priority greediness 

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

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Engelhardt 2007-05-08 00:28:24 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6672f76a5a
commit b73a7e76c1
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@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
/*
* Our parent is keventd, which runs with elevated scheduling priority.
* Avoid propagating that into the userspace child.
*/
set_user_nice(current, 0);
retval = -EPERM;
if (current->fs->root)
retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,