Because SCHED_FIFO is a broken scheduler model (see previous patches)
take away the priority field, the kernel can't possibly make an
informed decision.
Effectively changes prio from 99 to 50.
Cc: wim@linux-watchdog.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
int __init watchdog_dev_init(void)
{
int err;
- struct sched_param param = {.sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1,};
watchdog_kworker = kthread_create_worker(0, "watchdogd");
if (IS_ERR(watchdog_kworker)) {
pr_err("Failed to create watchdog kworker\n");
return PTR_ERR(watchdog_kworker);
}
- sched_setscheduler(watchdog_kworker->task, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m);
+ sched_set_fifo(watchdog_kworker->task);
err = class_register(&watchdog_class);
if (err < 0) {