Commit 1251201c authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar
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sched/core: Fix uclamp ABI bug, clean up and robustify sched_read_attr() ABI logic and code

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo reported that 'chrt' broke on recent kernels:

  $ chrt -p $$
  chrt: failed to get pid 26306's policy: Argument list too long

and he has root-caused the bug to the following commit increasing sched_attr
size and breaking sched_read_attr() into returning -EFBIG:

  a509a7cd ("sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping")

The other, bigger bug is that the whole sched_getattr() and sched_read_attr()
logic of checking non-zero bits in new ABI components is arguably broken,
and pretty much any extension of the ABI will spuriously break the ABI.
That's way too fragile.

Instead implement the perf syscall's extensible ABI instead, which we
already implement on the sched_setattr() side:

 - if user-attributes have the same size as kernel attributes then the
   logic is unchanged.

 - if user-attributes are larger than the kernel knows about then simply
   skip t...
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