sched/rt: Change the type of 'sysctl_sched_rt_period' from 'unsigned int' to 'int'

Doing this matches the natural type of 'int' based calculus
in sched_rt_handler(), and also enables the adding in of a
correct upper bounds check on the sysctl interface.

[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Author: Yajun Deng

kernel/sched/rt.c

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ struct rt_bandwidth def_rt_bandwidth;
  * period over which we measure -rt task CPU usage in us.
  * default: 1s
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_rt_period = 1000000;
+int sysctl_sched_rt_period = 1000000;
 
 /*
  * part of the period that we allow rt tasks to run in us.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static struct ctl_table sched_rt_sysctls[] = {
 	{
 		.procname       = "sched_rt_period_us",
 		.data           = &sysctl_sched_rt_period,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = sched_rt_handler,
 		.extra1         = SYSCTL_ONE,
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static struct ctl_table sched_rt_sysctls[] = {
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = sched_rt_handler,
 		.extra1         = SYSCTL_NEG_ONE,
-		.extra2         = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
+		.extra2         = (void *)&sysctl_sched_rt_period,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname       = "sched_rr_timeslice_ms",

kernel/sched/sched.h

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ extern long calc_load_fold_active(struct rq *this_rq, long adjust);
 
 extern void call_trace_sched_update_nr_running(struct rq *rq, int count);
 
-extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_rt_period;
+extern int sysctl_sched_rt_period;
 extern int sysctl_sched_rt_runtime;
 extern int sched_rr_timeslice;