sched_ext: Expire prev's slice in dispatch_one() under bypass

The next patch keeps a bypassed rescuee on the local DSQ and needs
dispatch_one() to keep it running too. dispatch_one()'s keep test refuses
any prev whose scheduler is bypassing, so another local task could run ahead
of the rescuee, even an escalated SCX_TASK_PROTECTED one. The test exists
because a cpu-form scheduler can write p->scx.slice directly from BPF, so
the slice can't be trusted under bypass.

The refusal doesn't hold anyway. Since 025b1bd419 ("sched_ext: Implement
hierarchical bypass mode"), the host's ops.dispatch() runs while prev's
scheduler bypasses, and the post-dispatch test in scx_dispatch_sched() keeps
a queued prev with slice left without checking bypass. A task dispatched in
between waits behind prev until the next bypass tick zeroes the slice, at
most a tick.

Expire the slice before the keep test instead when prev's scheduler is
bypassing, as the bypass tick would. Neither test keeps prev on a zeroed
slice, so prev rotates. A kernel slice survives the expiry and keeps prev.
Only a sub-scheduler's task can hold one, and sub-schedulers are cid-form,
which rejects direct slice writes, so it can be trusted.

Drop the stale pointer to scx_disable_workfn(), update scx_bypass()'s
kerneldoc, and add a TODO noting that the bypass slice handling can be
cleaned up once the cpu form is deprecated and the kfuncs refuse slice
raises from a bypassing scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
This commit is contained in:
Tejun Heo 2026-10-26 14:17:43 -10:00
parent 20a61e4142
commit b9843b0399

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@ -3376,18 +3376,33 @@ static enum scx_dsp_verdict dispatch_one(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev
if (prev->sched_class == &ext_sched_class) {
update_curr_scx(rq);
/*
* Under bypass, @prev's slice can't be trusted as a cpu-form
* scheduler can write it directly from BPF. Skipping the keep
* below is not enough as the post-dispatch test in
* scx_dispatch_sched() would keep @prev on the same slice.
*
* Expire it as the bypass tick would, so that neither test
* keeps @prev on it and @prev rotates through the bypass
* enqueue. A kernel slice is left alone and the keep below
* keeps @prev on it, see %SCX_TASK_KERNEL_SLICE.
*
* TODO: Once the cpu form is deprecated and the kfuncs refuse
* slice raises from a bypassing scheduler, slices can be
* trusted under bypass. This expiry, the bypass tick's zeroing
* and the related slice handling can then be cleaned up.
*/
if (scx_bypassing(scx_task_sched(prev), cpu))
expire_task_slice(prev);
/*
* If @prev is runnable & has slice left, it has priority and
* fetching more just increases latency for the fetched tasks.
* Tell pick_task_scx() to keep running @prev. If the BPF
* scheduler wants to handle this explicitly, it should
* implement ->cpu_release().
*
* See scx_disable_workfn() for the explanation on the bypassing
* test.
*/
if ((prev->scx.flags & SCX_TASK_QUEUED) && prev->scx.slice &&
!scx_bypassing(scx_task_sched(prev), cpu)) {
if ((prev->scx.flags & SCX_TASK_QUEUED) && prev->scx.slice) {
verdict = SCX_DSP_PREV;
goto has_tasks;
}
@ -6917,9 +6932,10 @@ static void unbypass_renotify_idle(struct rq *rq, struct scx_sched *pos,
* - ops.sub_ecaps_updated() and ops.sub_child_ecaps_updated() are still called.
* The bypassed tasks are on the bypass DSQs, out of their reach.
*
* - dispatch_one() does not report %SCX_DSP_PREV on non-zero slice as slice
* can't be trusted. Whenever a tick triggers, the running task is rotated to
* the tail of the queue.
* - dispatch_one() expires prev's slice before its keep test as the slice can't
* be trusted. Each tick does the same and rotates the running task to the
* tail of the queue. A kernel slice is left alone, see
* %SCX_TASK_KERNEL_SLICE.
*
* - pick_next_task() suppresses zero slice warning.
*