From 024f474795af7a0d41bd6d60061d78bd66d13f56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:24:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Make RLIMIT_NICE ranges consistent with
getpriority(2)
As suggested by Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, make RLIMIT_NICE
consistent with getpriority before it becomes available in released glibc.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
kernel/sched.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index a646e4f36c41..5f889d0cbfcc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3378,8 +3378,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_user_nice);
*/
int can_nice(const task_t *p, const int nice)
{
- /* convert nice value [19,-20] to rlimit style value [0,39] */
- int nice_rlim = 19 - nice;
+ /* convert nice value [19,-20] to rlimit style value [1,40] */
+ int nice_rlim = 20 - nice;
return (nice_rlim <= p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NICE].rlim_cur ||
capable(CAP_SYS_NICE));
}
--
2.20.1