From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:24:19 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] Make RLIMIT_NICE ranges consistent with getpriority(2)
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc7~59^2~27
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[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>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index a646e4f36c..5f889d0cbf 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));
 }