sys_sched_get_priority_max(9)

💅 NAME 💅

sys_sched_get_priority_max — bestie, this one returns the maximum RT priority ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

long sys_sched_get_priority_max (int policy );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• policy — the scheduling class, iykyk 🌸

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

So like, on success this syscall returns the maximum rt_priority that can be used by a given scheduling class 💖 periodt.

On failure? it hands you back a negative error code 😭 that's it, that's the whole vibe check.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./kernel/sched/syscalls.c 👑

• task_prio(9)
• idle_cpu(9)
• idle_task(9)
• find_process_by_pid(9)
• sched_setscheduler(9)
• sched_setscheduler_nocheck(9)
• sys_sched_setscheduler(9)
• sys_sched_setparam(9)
• sys_sched_setattr(9)
• sys_sched_getscheduler(9)
• sys_sched_getparam(9)
• sys_sched_getattr(9)
• sys_sched_setaffinity(9)
• sys_sched_getaffinity(9)
• sys_sched_yield(9)
• yield(9)
• yield_to(9)
• sys_sched_get_priority_min(9)
• sys_sched_rr_get_interval(9)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go read the source and slay 💅✨

shoutout to ./kernel/sched, dated October 2026, home of sys_sched_get_priority_max(9) — mwah 🫶💜