thread/Util: implement system call wrapper for sched_setscheduler()

There is a POSIX definition for sched_setscheduler(), but Linux does not implement that; instead of changing the process's scheduler, it only affects one thread. This has caused some confusion among application developers and C library developers. While glibc implements Linux semantics, Musl has made their sched_setscheduler() function an always-failing no-op, causing the error message "sched_setscheduler failed: Function not implemented". http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/src/sched/sched_setscheduler.c?id=1e21e78bf7a5c24c217446d8760be7b7188711c2 Instead of relying on the C library which may be unreliable here, we now roll our own system call wrapper. Closes #218

thread/Util: implement system call wrapper for sched_setscheduler()
81765650 · Max Kellermann · 6f00f97b · 81765650 · 81765650
Commit 81765650 authored Feb 09, 2018 by Max Kellermann
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 ver 0.20.17 (not yet released)
+* fix real-time and idle scheduling with Musl
 ver 0.20.16 (2018/02/03)
 * output

--- a/src/thread/Util.cxx
+++ b/src/thread/Util.cxx
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@
 #include <windows.h>
 #endif
-#if defined(__linux__) && !defined(ANDROID)
+#ifdef __linux__
+#ifndef ANDROID
 static int
 linux_ioprio_set(int which, int who, int ioprio)
@@ -58,6 +60,19 @@ ioprio_set_idle()
 	linux_ioprio_set(_IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, 0, _IOPRIO_IDLE);
 }
+#endif /* !ANDROID */
+/**
+ * Wrapper for the "sched_setscheduler" system call.  We don't use the
+ * one from the C library because Musl has an intentionally broken
+ * implementation.
+ */
+static int
+linux_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int sched, const struct sched_param *param)
+{
+	return syscall(__NR_sched_setscheduler, pid, sched, param);
+}
 #endif
 void
@@ -66,7 +81,7 @@ SetThreadIdlePriority()
 #ifdef __linux__
 #ifdef SCHED_IDLE
 	static struct sched_param sched_param;
-	sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_IDLE, &sched_param);
+	linux_sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_IDLE, &sched_param);
 #endif
 #ifndef ANDROID
@@ -92,7 +107,7 @@ SetThreadRealtime()
 	policy |= SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK;
 #endif
-	if (sched_setscheduler(0, policy, &sched_param) < 0)
+	if (linux_sched_setscheduler(0, policy, &sched_param) < 0)
 		throw MakeErrno("sched_setscheduler failed");
 #endif	// __linux__
 };