Add an idletime user group that allows non-root users to run processes
with idle scheduling priority. Privileges are granted by a MAC policy in
the mac_priority module. For this purpose, the kernel privilege
PRIV_SCHED_IDPRIO was added to sys/priv.h (kernel module ABI change).
Deprecate the system wide sysctl(8) knob
security.bsd.unprivileged_idprio which lets any user run idle priority
processes, regardless of context. While the knob is still working, it is
marked as deprecated in the description and in the man pages.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33338
This is a MAC policy module that grants scheduling privileges based on
group membership. Users or processes in the group realtime (gid 47) are
allowed to run threads and processes with realtime scheduling priority.
For timing-sensitive, low-latency software like audio/jack, running with
realtime priority helps to avoid stutter and gaps.
PR: 239125
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33191
- varios "new sentence, new line" warnings
- varios "sections out of conventional order" warnings
- varios "unusual Xr order" warnings
- varios "missing section argument" warnings
- varios "no blank before trailing delimiter" warnings
- varios "normalizing date format" warnings
MFC after: 1 month
Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
