Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kthread: run kthreadd with max priority SCHED_FIFO | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:39:30 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 04:52 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> So, user tasks running with SCHED_FIFO should be able to lock a system? > I guess I see both sides of this argument - yes, it's userspace at > fault, but in other cases when userspace is at fault, we take action > (OOM, segfault, others). Isn't this situation just another case where > the kernel needs to avoid the evils of userland going awry?
FYI, Ingo queued the below.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/31/344
-Mike
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