CLONE_PIDFD was introduced in v5.2 and in sched.h in glibc-2.31 so
without this, building with older version fails with:
src/basic/raw-clone.h:41:108: error: 'CLONE_PIDFD' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'CLONE_FILES'?
The kernel's sched_setattr interface allows for more control over a processes
scheduling attributes as the previously used sched_setscheduler interface.
Using sched_setattr is also the prerequisite for support of utilization
clamping (UCLAMP [1], see #26705) and allows to set sched_runtime. The latter,
sched_runtime, will probably become a relevant scheduling parameter of the
EEVDF scheduler [2, 3], and therefore will not only apply to processes
scheduled via SCHED_DEADLINE, but also for processes scheduled via
SCHED_OTHER/SCHED_BATCH (i.e., most processes).
1: https://docs.kernel.org/next/scheduler/sched-util-clamp.html
2: https://lwn.net/Articles/969062/
3: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20240405110010.934104715@infradead.org/
It's great that we provide fallback values, but if we got one of those wrong,
it could be a long time before anyone noticed. So let's add asserts that the
our internal defines actually match the official ones, when the latter are
available.
I did not add '#include "macro.h"' to missing_{audit,capability}, because
those are processed by an awk script that would need additional include
directories and could be confused by the additional lines. We don't include
those headers standalone anyway, so this is not necessary anyway.
Yu Watanabe
Michael Olbrich
Florian Schmaus
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Christian Brauner