Make sure to only call pick_next_entity() on an non-empty cfs_rq.
The assumption that p is always enqueued and not delayed, is only true for
wakeup. If p was moved while delayed, pick_next_entity() will dequeue it and
the cfs might become empty. Test if there are still queued tasks before trying
again to determine if p could be the next one to be picked.
There are at least 2 cases:
When cfs becomes idle, it tries to pull tasks but if those pulled tasks are
delayed, they will be dequeued when attached to cfs. attach_tasks() ->
attach_task() -> wakeup_preempt(rq, p, 0);
A misfit task running on cfs A triggers a load balance to be pulled on a better
cpu, the load balance on cfs B starts an active load balance to pulled the
running misfit task. If there is a delayed dequeue task on cfs A, it can be
pulled instead of the previously running misfit task. attach_one_task() ->
attach_task() -> wakeup_preempt(rq, p, 0);
Fixes: ac8e69e693 ("sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() vs delayed dequeue")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503104503.1732682-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Zhan Xusheng reported running into sporadic a s64 mult overflow in
vruntime_eligible().
When constructing a worst case scenario:
If you have cgroups, then you can have an entity of weight 2 (per
calc_group_shares()), and its vlag should then be bounded by: (slice+TICK_NSEC)
* NICE_0_LOAD, which is around 44 bits as per the comment on entity_key().
The other extreme is 100*NICE_0_LOAD, thus you get:
{key, weight}[] := {
puny: { (slice + TICK_NSEC) * NICE_0_LOAD, 2 },
max: { 0, 100*NICE_0_LOAD },
}
The avg_vruntime() would end up being very close to 0 (which is
zero_vruntime), so no real help making that more accurate.
vruntime_eligible(puny) ends up with:
avg = 2 * puny.key (+ 0)
load = 2 + 100 * NICE_0_LOAD
avg >= puny.key * load
And that is: (slice + TICK_NSEC) * NICE_0_LOAD * NICE_0_LOAD * 100, which will
overflow s64.
Zhan suggested using __builtin_mul_overflow(), however after staring at
compiler output for various architectures using godbolt, it seems that using an
__int128 multiplication often results in better code.
Specifically, a number of architectures already compute the __int128 product to
determine the overflow. Eg. arm64 already has the 'smulh' instruction used. By
explicitly doing an __int128 multiply, it will emit the 'mul; smulh' pattern,
which modern cores can fuse (armv8-a clang-22.1.0). x86_64 has less branches
(no OF handling).
Since Linux has ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 to gate __int128 usage, also provide the
__builtin_mul_overflow() variant as a fallback.
[peterz: Changelog and __int128 bits]
Fixes: 556146ce5e ("sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity()")
Reported-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com>
Closes: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415145742.10359-1-zhanxusheng%40xiaomi.com
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505103155.GN3102924%40noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Similar to how pick_next_entity() must dequeue delayed entities, so too must
wakeup_preempt_fair(). Any delayed task being found means it is eligible and
hence past the 0-lag point, ready for removal.
Worse, by not removing delayed entities from consideration, it can skew the
preemption decision, with the end result that a short slice wakeup will not
result in a preemption.
tip/sched/core tip/sched/core +this patch
cyclictest slice (ms) (default)2.8 8 8
hackbench slice (ms) (default)2.8 20 20
Total Samples | 22559 22595 22683
Average (us) | 157 64( 59%) 59( 8%)
Median (P50) (us) | 57 57( 0%) 58(- 2%)
90th Percentile (us) | 64 60( 6%) 60( 0%)
99th Percentile (us) | 2407 67( 97%) 67( 0%)
99.9th Percentile (us) | 3400 2288( 33%) 727( 68%)
Maximum (us) | 5037 9252(-84%) 7461( 19%)
Fixes: f12e148892 ("sched/fair: Prepare pick_next_task() for delayed dequeue")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422093400.319251-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Vincent reported that my rework of his original patch lost a little
something.
Specifically it got the return value wrong; it should not compare
against the old se->vlag, but rather against the current value. Since
the thing that matters is if the effective vruntime of an entity is
affected and the thing needs repositioning or not.
Fixes: 059258b0d4 ("sched/fair: Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue")
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423094107.GT3102624%40noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Fair scheduling updates:
- Skip SCHED_IDLE rq for SCHED_IDLE tasks (Christian Loehle)
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() in the wakeup path (K Prateek Nayak)
- Simplify the entry condition for update_idle_cpu_scan() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Simplify SIS_UTIL handling in select_idle_cpu() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Update overutilized detection (Vincent Guittot)
- Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue (Vincent Guittot)
- Clear buddies for preempt_short (Vincent Guittot)
- Implement more complex proportional newidle balance (Peter Zijlstra)
- Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime (Peter Zijlstra)
- Use full weight to __calc_delta() (Peter Zijlstra)
RT and DL scheduling updates:
- Fix incorrect schedstats for rt and dl thread (Dengjun Su)
- Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0 (Michal Koutný)
- Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
(Michal Koutný)
- Add reporting of runtime left & abs deadline to sched_getattr()
for DEADLINE tasks (Tommaso Cucinotta)
Scheduling topology updates by K Prateek Nayak:
- Compute sd_weight considering cpuset partitions
- Extract "imb_numa_nr" calculation into a separate helper
- Allocate per-CPU sched_domain_shared in s_data
- Switch to assigning "sd->shared" from s_data
- Remove sched_domain_shared allocation with sd_data
Energy-aware scheduling updates:
- Filter false overloaded_group case for EAS (Vincent Guittot)
- PM: EM: Switch to rcu_dereference_all() in wakeup path
(Dietmar Eggemann)
Infrastructure updates:
- Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq (Marco Crivellari)
Proxy scheduling updates by John Stultz:
- Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
- Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
- Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
- Fix and improve task::blocked_on et al handling
- Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty() helper
- Add logic to zap balancing callbacks if we pick again
- Move attach_one_task() and attach_task() helpers to sched.h
- Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
- Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers for proxy execution
Misc cleanups and fixes by John Stultz, Joseph Salisbury,
Peter Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak, Michal Koutný, Randy Dunlap,
Shrikanth Hegde, Vincent Guittot, Zhan Xusheng, Xie Yuanbin
and Vincent Guittot.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Fair scheduling updates:
- Skip SCHED_IDLE rq for SCHED_IDLE tasks (Christian Loehle)
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() in the wakeup path (K Prateek Nayak)
- Simplify the entry condition for update_idle_cpu_scan() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Simplify SIS_UTIL handling in select_idle_cpu() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Update overutilized detection (Vincent Guittot)
- Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue (Vincent Guittot)
- Clear buddies for preempt_short (Vincent Guittot)
- Implement more complex proportional newidle balance (Peter Zijlstra)
- Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime (Peter Zijlstra)
- Use full weight to __calc_delta() (Peter Zijlstra)
RT and DL scheduling updates:
- Fix incorrect schedstats for rt and dl thread (Dengjun Su)
- Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0 (Michal Koutný)
- Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
(Michal Koutný)
- Add reporting of runtime left & abs deadline to sched_getattr()
for DEADLINE tasks (Tommaso Cucinotta)
Scheduling topology updates by K Prateek Nayak:
- Compute sd_weight considering cpuset partitions
- Extract "imb_numa_nr" calculation into a separate helper
- Allocate per-CPU sched_domain_shared in s_data
- Switch to assigning "sd->shared" from s_data
- Remove sched_domain_shared allocation with sd_data
Energy-aware scheduling updates:
- Filter false overloaded_group case for EAS (Vincent Guittot)
- PM: EM: Switch to rcu_dereference_all() in wakeup path
(Dietmar Eggemann)
Infrastructure updates:
- Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq (Marco Crivellari)
Proxy scheduling updates by John Stultz:
- Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
- Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
- Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
- Fix and improve task::blocked_on et al handling
- Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty() helper
- Add logic to zap balancing callbacks if we pick again
- Move attach_one_task() and attach_task() helpers to sched.h
- Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
- Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers for proxy execution
Misc cleanups and fixes by John Stultz, Joseph Salisbury, Peter
Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak, Michal Koutný, Randy Dunlap, Shrikanth
Hegde, Vincent Guittot, Zhan Xusheng, Xie Yuanbin and Vincent Guittot"
* tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
sched/eevdf: Clear buddies for preempt_short
sched/rt: Cleanup global RT bandwidth functions
sched/rt: Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
sched/rt: Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0
sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity()
sched: Use u64 for bandwidth ratio calculations
sched/fair: Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue
sched/fair: Use sched_energy_enabled()
sched: Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
sched: Move attach_one_task and attach_task helpers to sched.h
sched: Add logic to zap balance callbacks if we pick again
sched: Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty helper
sched/locking: Add special p->blocked_on==PROXY_WAKING value for proxy return-migration
sched: Fix modifying donor->blocked on without proper locking
locking: Add task::blocked_lock to serialize blocked_on state
sched: Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
sched: Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
sched: Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
MAINTAINERS: Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers
sched/core: Get this cpu once in ttwu_queue_cond()
...
Here is one scenario which was triggered when running:
stress-ng --yield=32 -t 10000000s&
while true; do perf bench sched messaging -p -t -l 100000 -g 16; done
on a 256CPUs machine after about an hour into the run:
__enqeue_entity: entity_key(-141245081754) weight(90891264) overflow_mul(5608800059305154560) vlag(57498) delayed?(0)
cfs_rq: zero_vruntime(3809707759657809) sum_w_vruntime(0) sum_weight(0) nr_queued(1)
cfs_rq->curr: entity_key(0) vruntime(3809707759657809) deadline(3809723966988476) weight(37)
The above comes from __enqueue_entity() after a place_entity(). Breaking
this down:
vlag_initial = 57498
vlag = (57498 * (37 + 90891264)) / 37 = 141,245,081,754
vruntime = 3809707759657809 - 141245081754 = 3,809,566,514,576,055
entity_key(se, cfs_rq) = -141,245,081,754
Now, multiplying the entity_key with its own weight results to
5,608,800,059,305,154,560 (same as what overflow_mul() suggests) but
in Python, without overflow, this would be: -1,2837,944,014,404,397,056
Avoid the overflow (without doing the division for avg_vruntime()), by moving
zero_vruntime to the new entity when it is heavier.
Fixes: 4823725d9d ("sched/fair: Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime")
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
[peterz: suggested 'weight > load' condition]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407120052.GG3738010@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Delayed dequeue feature aims to reduce the negative lag of a dequeued
task while sleeping but it can happens that newly enqueued tasks will
move backward the avg vruntime and increase its negative lag.
When the delayed dequeued task wakes up, it has more neg lag compared
to being dequeued immediately or to other tasks that have been
dequeued just before theses new enqueues.
Ensure that the negative lag of a delayed dequeued task doesn't
increase during its delayed dequeued phase while waiting for its neg
lag to diseappear. Similarly, we remove any positive lag that the
delayed dequeued task could have gain during thsi period.
Short slice tasks are particularly impacted in overloaded system.
Test on snapdragon rb5:
hackbench -T -p -l 16000000 -g 2 1> /dev/null &
cyclictest -t 1 -i 2777 -D 333 --policy=fair --mlock -h 20000 -q
The scheduling latency of cyclictest is:
tip/sched/core tip/sched/core +this patch
cyclictest slice (ms) (default)2.8 8 8
hackbench slice (ms) (default)2.8 20 20
Total Samples | 115632 119733 119806
Average (us) | 364 64(-82%) 61(- 5%)
Median (P50) (us) | 60 56(- 7%) 56( 0%)
90th Percentile (us) | 1166 62(-95%) 62( 0%)
99th Percentile (us) | 4192 73(-98%) 72(- 1%)
99.9th Percentile (us) | 8528 2707(-68%) 1300(-52%)
Maximum (us) | 17735 14273(-20%) 13525(- 5%)
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331162352.551501-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
The fair scheduler locally introduced attach_one_task() and
attach_task() helpers, but these could be generically useful so
move this code to sched.h so we can use them elsewhere.
One minor tweak made to utilize guard(rq_lock)(rq) to simplifiy
the function.
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324191337.1841376-10-jstultz@google.com
The following fix in sched/urgent:
e08d007f9d ("sched/debug: Fix avg_vruntime() usage")
is in conflict with this pending commit in sched/core:
4823725d9d ("sched/fair: Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime")
Both modify the same variable definition and initialization blocks,
resolve it by merging the two.
Conflicts:
kernel/sched/debug.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
John reported that stress-ng-yield could make his machine unhappy and
managed to bisect it to commit b3d99f43c7 ("sched/fair: Fix
zero_vruntime tracking").
The combination of yield and that commit was specific enough to
hypothesize the following scenario:
Suppose we have 2 runnable tasks, both doing yield. Then one will be
eligible and one will not be, because the average position must be in
between these two entities.
Therefore, the runnable task will be eligible, and be promoted a full
slice (all the tasks do is yield after all). This causes it to jump over
the other task and now the other task is eligible and current is no
longer. So we schedule.
Since we are runnable, there is no {de,en}queue. All we have is the
__{en,de}queue_entity() from {put_prev,set_next}_task(). But per the
fingered commit, those two no longer move zero_vruntime.
All that moves zero_vruntime are tick and full {de,en}queue.
This means, that if the two tasks playing leapfrog can reach the
critical speed to reach the overflow point inside one tick's worth of
time, we're up a creek.
Additionally, when multiple cgroups are involved, there is no guarantee
the tick will in fact hit every cgroup in a timely manner. Statistically
speaking it will, but that same statistics does not rule out the
possibility of one cgroup not getting a tick for a significant amount of
time -- however unlikely.
Therefore, just like with the yield() case, force an update at the end
of every slice. This ensures the update is never more than a single
slice behind and the whole thing is within 2 lag bounds as per the
comment on entity_key().
Fixes: b3d99f43c7 ("sched/fair: Fix zero_vruntime tracking")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401132355.081530332@infradead.org
Calling smp_processor_id() on:
- In CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, if preemption/irq is disabled, then it does
not print any warning.
- In CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=n, it doesn't do anything apart from getting
__smp_processor_id
So with both CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y/n, in preemption disabled section
it is better to cache the value. It could save a few cycles. Though
tiny, repeated in loop could add up to a small value.
find_new_ilb is called in interrupt context. So preemption is disabled.
So Hoist the this_cpu out of loop
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323193630.640311-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
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Merge tag 'v7.0-rc4' into timers/core, to resolve conflict
Resolve conflict between this change in the upstream kernel:
4c652a4772 ("rseq: Mark rseq_arm_slice_extension_timer() __always_inline")
... and this pending change in timers/core:
0e98eb1481 ("entry: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use the "sd_llc" passed to select_idle_cpu() to obtain the
"sd_llc_shared" instead of dereferencing the per-CPU variable.
Since "sd->shared" is always reclaimed at the same time as "sd" via
call_rcu() and update_top_cache_domain() always ensures a valid
"sd->shared" assignment when "sd_llc" is present, "sd_llc->shared" can
always be dereferenced without needing an additional check.
While at it move the cpumask_and() operation after the SIS_UTIL bailout
check to avoid unnecessarily computing the cpumask.
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312044434.1974-10-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
Only the topmost SD_SHARE_LLC domain has the "sd->shared" assigned.
Simply use "sd->shared" as an indicator for load balancing at the highest
SD_SHARE_LLC domain in update_idle_cpu_scan() instead of relying on
llc_size.
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312044434.1974-9-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
select_task_rq_fair() is always called with p->pi_lock held and IRQs
disabled which makes it equivalent of an RCU read-side.
Since commit 71fedc41c2 ("sched/fair: Switch to
rcu_dereference_all()") switched to using rcu_dereference_all() in the
wakeup path, drop the explicit rcu_read_{lock,unlock}() in the fair
task's wakeup path.
Future plans to reuse select_task_rq_fair() /
find_energy_efficient_cpu() in the fair class' balance callback will do
so with IRQs disabled and will comply with the requirements of
rcu_dereference_all() which makes this safe keeping in mind future
development plans too.
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312044434.1974-8-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
Replace the comma operator with separate statements when assigning
NUMA fault statistics. This improves readability and follows kernel
coding style.
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309024247.10908-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Since the tick causes hard preemption, the hrtick should too.
Letting the hrtick do lazy preemption completely defeats the purpose, since
it will then still be delayed until a old tick and be dependent on
CONFIG_HZ.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163428.933894105@kernel.org
hrtick_update() was needed when the slice depended on nr_running, all that
code is gone. All that remains is starting the hrtick when nr_running
becomes more than 1.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163428.866374835@kernel.org
The nominal duration for an EEVDF task to run is until its deadline. At
which point the deadline is moved ahead and a new task selection is done.
Try and predict the time 'lost' to higher scheduling classes. Since this is
an estimate, the timer can be both early or late. In case it is early
task_tick_fair() will take the !need_resched() path and restarts the timer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163428.798198874@kernel.org
CPUs whose rq only have SCHED_IDLE tasks running are considered to be
equivalent to truly idle CPUs during wakeup path. For fork and exec
SCHED_IDLE is even preferred.
This is based on the assumption that the SCHED_IDLE CPU is not in an
idle state and might be in a higher P-state, allowing the task/wakee
to run immediately without sharing the rq.
However this assumption doesn't hold if the wakee has SCHED_IDLE policy
itself, as it will share the rq with existing SCHED_IDLE tasks. In this
case, we are better off continuing to look for a truly idle CPU.
On a Intel Xeon 2-socket with 64 logical cores in total this yields
for kernel compilation using SCHED_IDLE:
+---------+----------------------+----------------------+--------+
| workers | mainline (seconds) | patch (seconds) | delta% |
+=========+======================+======================+========+
| 1 | 4384.728 ± 21.085 | 3843.250 ± 16.235 | -12.35 |
| 2 | 2242.513 ± 2.099 | 1971.696 ± 2.842 | -12.08 |
| 4 | 1199.324 ± 1.823 | 1033.744 ± 1.803 | -13.81 |
| 8 | 649.083 ± 1.959 | 559.123 ± 4.301 | -13.86 |
| 16 | 370.425 ± 0.915 | 325.906 ± 4.623 | -12.02 |
| 32 | 234.651 ± 2.255 | 217.266 ± 0.253 | -7.41 |
| 64 | 202.286 ± 1.452 | 197.977 ± 2.275 | -2.13 |
| 128 | 217.092 ± 1.687 | 212.164 ± 1.138 | -2.27 |
+---------+----------------------+----------------------+--------+
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203184939.2138022-1-christian.loehle@arm.com
With EAS, a group should be set overloaded if at least 1 CPU in the group
is overutilized but it can happen that a CPU is fully utilized by tasks
because of clamping the compute capacity of the CPU. In such case, the CPU
is not overutilized and as a result should not be set overloaded as well.
group_overloaded being a higher priority than group_misfit, such group can
be selected as the busiest group instead of a group with a mistfit task
and prevents load_balance to select the CPU with the misfit task to pull
the latter on a fitting CPU.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206095454.1520619-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Checking uclamp_min is useless and counterproductive for overutilized state
as misfit can now happen without being in overutilized state.
Since commit e5ed0550c0 ("sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized")
util_fits_cpu returns -1 when uclamp_min is above capacity which is not
considered as cpu overutilized.
Remove the useless rq_util_min parameter.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213101751.3121899-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Since we now use the full weight for avg_vruntime(), also make
__calc_delta() use the full value.
Since weight is effectively NICE_0_LOAD, this is 20 bits on 64bit.
This leaves 44 bits for delta_exec, which is ~16k seconds, way longer
than any one tick would ever be, so no worry about overflow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080625.183283814%40infradead.org
Zicheng Qu reported that, because avg_vruntime() always includes
cfs_rq->curr, when ->on_rq, place_entity() doesn't work right.
Specifically, the lag scaling in place_entity() relies on
avg_vruntime() being the state *before* placement of the new entity.
However in this case avg_vruntime() will actually already include the
entity, which breaks things.
Also, Zicheng Qu argues that avg_vruntime should be invariant under
reweight. IOW commit 6d71a9c616 ("sched/fair: Fix EEVDF entity
placement bug causing scheduling lag") was wrong!
The issue reported in 6d71a9c616 could possibly be explained by
rounding artifacts -- notably the extreme weight '2' is outside of the
range of avg_vruntime/sum_w_vruntime, since that uses
scale_load_down(). By scaling vruntime by the real weight, but
accounting it in vruntime with a factor 1024 more, the average moves
significantly. However, that is now cured.
Tested by reverting 66951e4860 ("sched/fair: Fix update_cfs_group()
vs DELAY_DEQUEUE") and tracing vruntime and vlag figures again.
Reported-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080625.066102672%40infradead.org
Due to the zero_vruntime patch, the deltas are now a lot smaller and
measurement with kernel-build and hackbench runs show about 45 bits
used.
This ensures avg_vruntime() tracks the full weight range, reducing
numerical artifacts in reweight and the like.
Also, lets keep the paranoid debug code around fow now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.942813440%40infradead.org
It turns out that a few workloads (easyWave, fio) have a fairly low
success rate on newidle balance, but still benefit greatly from having
it anyway.
Luckliky these workloads have a faily low newidle rate, so the cost if
doing the newidle is relatively low, even if unsuccessfull.
Add a simple rate based part to the newidle ratio compute, such that
low rate newidle will still have a high newidle ratio.
This cures the easyWave and fio workloads while not affecting the
schbench numbers either (which have a very high newidle rate).
Reported-by: Mario Roy <marioeroy@gmail.com>
Reported-by: "Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem" <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Mario Roy <marioeroy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: "Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem" <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127151748.GA1079264@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Kernel test robot reported that
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test was failing due to
commit 704069649b ("sched/core: Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt()
and rq_modified_*()")
It turns out there were two related problems that could lead to a
missed preemption:
- when hitting newidle balance from the idle thread, it would elevate
rb->next_class from &idle_sched_class to &fair_sched_class, causing
later wakeup_preempt() calls to not hit the sched_class_above()
case, and not issue resched_curr().
Notably, this modification pattern should only lower the
next_class, and never raise it. Create two new helper functions to
wrap this.
- when doing schedule_idle(), it was possible to miss (re)setting
rq->next_class to &idle_sched_class, leading to the very same
problem.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fixes: 704069649b ("sched/core: Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202602122157.4e861298-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218163329.GQ1395416@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Vincent reported that he was seeing undue lag clamping in a mixed
slice workload. Implement the max_slice tracking as per the todo
comment.
Fixes: 147f3efaa2 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Reported-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250422101628.GA33555@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
In the EEVDF framework with Run-to-Parity protection, `se->vprot` is an
independent variable defining the virtual protection timestamp.
When `reweight_entity()` is called (e.g., via nice/renice), it performs
the following actions to preserve Lag consistency:
1. Scales `se->vlag` based on the new weight.
2. Calls `place_entity()`, which recalculates `se->vruntime` based on
the new weight and scaled lag.
However, the current implementation fails to update `se->vprot`, leading
to mismatches between the task's actual runtime and its expected duration.
Fixes: 63304558ba ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Suggested-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Tao <wangtao554@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120123113.3518950-1-wangtao554@huawei.com
We should not (re)set slice protection in the sched_change pattern
which calls put_prev_task() / set_next_task().
Fixes: 63304558ba ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.561421378%40infradead.org
It turns out that zero_vruntime tracking is broken when there is but a single
task running. Current update paths are through __{en,de}queue_entity(), and
when there is but a single task, pick_next_task() will always return that one
task, and put_prev_set_next_task() will end up in neither function.
This can cause entity_key() to grow indefinitely large and cause overflows,
leading to much pain and suffering.
Furtermore, doing update_zero_vruntime() from __{de,en}queue_entity(), which
are called from {set_next,put_prev}_entity() has problems because:
- set_next_entity() calls __dequeue_entity() before it does cfs_rq->curr = se.
This means the avg_vruntime() will see the removal but not current, missing
the entity for accounting.
- put_prev_entity() calls __enqueue_entity() before it does cfs_rq->curr =
NULL. This means the avg_vruntime() will see the addition *and* current,
leading to double accounting.
Both cases are incorrect/inconsistent.
Noting that avg_vruntime is already called on each {en,de}queue, remove the
explicit avg_vruntime() calls (which removes an extra 64bit division for each
{en,de}queue) and have avg_vruntime() update zero_vruntime itself.
Additionally, have the tick call avg_vruntime() -- discarding the result, but
for the side-effect of updating zero_vruntime.
While there, optimize avg_vruntime() by noting that the average of one value is
rather trivial to compute.
Test case:
# taskset -c -p 1 $$
# taskset -c 2 bash -c 'while :; do :; done&'
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/debug | awk '/^cpu#/ {P=0} /^cpu#2,/ {P=1} {if (P) print $0}' | grep -e zero_vruntime -e "^>"
PRE:
.zero_vruntime : 31316.407903
>R bash 487 50787.345112 E 50789.145972 2.800000 50780.298364 16 120 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 /
.zero_vruntime : 382548.253179
>R bash 487 427275.204288 E 427276.003584 2.800000 427268.157540 23 120 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 /
POST:
.zero_vruntime : 17259.709467
>R bash 526 17259.709467 E 17262.509467 2.800000 16915.031624 9 120 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 /
.zero_vruntime : 18702.723356
>R bash 526 18702.723356 E 18705.523356 2.800000 18358.045513 9 120 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 /
Fixes: 79f3f9bedd ("sched/eevdf: Fix min_vruntime vs avg_vruntime")
Reported-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.438854780%40infradead.org
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Scheduler Kconfig space updates:
- Further consolidate configurable preemption modes: reduce
the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number
of preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy'
on up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc,
riscv, s390, x86).
None and voluntary are only available as legacy features
on platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet,
or which don't even support preemption.
The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and
voluntary preemption altogether.
(Peter Zijlstra)
RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support:
This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it
enters a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when
the thread is scheduled out inside of the critical section.
- Add fields and constants for time slice extension
- Provide static branch for time slice extensions
- Add statistics for time slice extensions
- Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
- Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
- Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
- Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
- Reset slice extension when scheduled
- Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
- entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
- selftests: Implement time slice extension test
(Thomas Gleixner)
- Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
- Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
- Lower default slice extension
- selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
(Peter Zijlstra)
Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:
- Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU,
which improves the scalability of various workloads.
(Shubhang Kaushik)
- Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching
(Blake Jones)
- Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups:
- Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
- Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
- Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead
(Shrikanth Hegde)
- Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)
- Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
- Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
- Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()
(Yury Norov)
DL scheduler updates:
- Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and
Joel Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)
RT scheduler updates:
- Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)
Entry code updates and performance improvements, which is part of the
scheduler tree in this cycle due to interdependencies with the RSEQ
based time slice extension work:
- Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
- Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
- Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
- Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
(Jinjie Ruan)
Scheduler core updates:
- Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
- Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
- Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =>
rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
- <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper
(Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduler updates/refactoring:
- Fold the sched_avg update
- Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
- Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
- Limit hrtick work
(Peter Zijlstra)
- Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
- Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
- Separate se->vlag from se->vprot
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions
- Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers
for wrapped-signed aritmetics
- Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise
(Ingo Molnar)
Scheduler debugging code updates:
- Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)
- Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
(Fushuai Wang)
- Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)
- hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of
throttled cgroups (Zicheng Qu)
- Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)
- sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing (zenghongling)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Scheduler Kconfig space updates:
- Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra)
Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of
preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on
up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390,
x86).
None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on
platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't
even support preemption.
The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary
preemption altogether.
RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner
and Peter Zijlstra):
This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters
a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread
is scheduled out inside of the critical section.
- Add fields and constants for time slice extension
- Provide static branch for time slice extensions
- Add statistics for time slice extensions
- Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
- Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
- Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
- Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
- Reset slice extension when scheduled
- Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
- entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
- selftests: Implement time slice extension test
- Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
- Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
- Lower default slice extension
- selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:
- Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which
improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik)
- Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones)
- Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde):
- Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
- Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
- Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead
- Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)
- Cleanups (Yury Norov):
- Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
- Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
- Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()
DL scheduler updates:
- Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel
Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)
RT scheduler updates:
- Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)
Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan)
This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter-
dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work:
- Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
- Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
- Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
- Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra):
- Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
- Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
- Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =>
rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
- <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper
Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar):
- Fold the sched_avg update
- Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
- Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
- Limit hrtick work
- Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
- Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
- Separate se->vlag from se->vprot
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions
- Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for
wrapped-signed aritmetics
- Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise
Scheduler debugging code updates:
- Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)
- Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
(Fushuai Wang)
- Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)
- hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled
cgroups (Zicheng Qu)
- Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)
- sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
(zenghongling)"
* tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups
sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu()
sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime
selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency
selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server
sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions
sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params
sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks
sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active
sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops
sched/deadline: Clear the defer params
entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping
sched: Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU
selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
hrtimer: Fix trace oddity
...
Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context
checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context
analysis features. (Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context
tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which
are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of
false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to
over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking
bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse:
I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the
rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is
rather high and there appears to be no active policy in
place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the
annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive
in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has
a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by
subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant
kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it).
Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other
compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no
warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline
on clang-22+ builds. (Which are still limited in distribution,
admittedly.)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more
subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking
can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y
(default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional
function calls.
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
(Arnd Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
(Tamir Duberstein)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
(Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
in distribution, admittedly)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
calls
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
Duberstein)"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
crypto: Use scoped init guard
kcov: Use scoped init guard
compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
...
This agressively bypasses run_to_parity and slice protection with the
assumpiton that this is what waker wants but there is no garantee that
the wakee will be the next to run. It is a better choice to use
yield_to_task or WF_SYNC in such case.
This increases the number of resched and preemption because a task becomes
quickly "ineligible" when it runs; We update the task vruntime periodically
and before the task exhausted its slice or at least quantum.
Example:
2 tasks A and B wake up simultaneously with lag = 0. Both are
eligible. Task A runs 1st and wakes up task C. Scheduler updates task
A's vruntime which becomes greater than average runtime as all others
have a lag == 0 and didn't run yet. Now task A is ineligible because
it received more runtime than the other task but it has not yet
exhausted its slice nor a min quantum. We force preemption, disable
protection but Task B will run 1st not task C.
Sidenote, DELAY_ZERO increases this effect by clearing positive lag at
wake up.
Fixes: e837456fdc ("sched/fair: Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123102858.52428-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
nohz.nr_cpus was observed as contended cacheline when running
enterprise workload on large systems.
Fundamental scalability challenge with nohz.idle_cpus_mask
and nohz.nr_cpus is the following:
(1) nohz_balancer_kick() observes (reads) nohz.nr_cpus
(or nohz.idle_cpu_mask) and nohz.has_blocked to see whether there's
any nohz balancing work to do, in every scheduler tick.
(2) nohz_balance_enter_idle() and nohz_balance_exit_idle()
(through nohz_balancer_kick() via sched_tick()) modify (write)
nohz.nr_cpus (and/or nohz.idle_cpu_mask) and nohz.has_blocked.
The characteristic frequencies are the following:
(1) nohz_balancer_kick() happens at scheduler (busy)tick frequency
on CPU(which has not gone idle). This is a relatively constant
frequency in the ~1 kHz range or lower.
(2) happens at idle enter/exit frequency on every CPU that goes to idle.
This is workload dependent, but can easily be hundreds of kHz for
IO-bound loads and high CPU counts. Ie. can be orders of magnitude
higher than (1), in which case a cachemiss at every invocation of (1)
is almost inevitable. idle exit will trigger (1) on the CPU
which is coming out of idle.
There's two types of costs from these functions:
(A) scheduler tick cost via (1): this happens on busy CPUs too, and is
thus a primary scalability cost. But the rate here is constant and
typically much lower than (B), hence the absolute benefit to workload
scalability will be lower as well.
(B) idle cost via (2): going-to-idle and coming-from-idle costs are
secondary concerns, because they impact power efficiency more than
they impact scalability. But in terms of absolute cost this scales
up with nr_cpus as well, and a much faster rate, and thus may also
approach and negatively impact system limits like
memory bus/fabric bandwidth.
Note that nohz.idle_cpus_mask and nohz.nr_cpus may appear to reside in the
same cacheline, however under CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y the backing storage
for nohz.idle_cpus_mask will be elsewhere. With CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n,
the nohz.idle_cpus_mask and rest of nohz fields are in different cachelines
under typical NR_CPUS=512/2048. This implies two separate cachelines
being dirtied upon idle entry / exit.
nohz.nr_cpus can be derived from the mask itself. Its usage doesn't warrant
a functionally correct value. This means one less cacheline being dirtied in
idle entry/exit path which helps to save some bus bandwidth w.r.t to those
nohz functions(approx 50%). This in turn helps to improve enterprise
workload throughput.
On system with 480 CPUs, running "hackbench 40 process 10000 loops"
(Avg of 3 runs)
baseline:
0.81% hackbench [k] nohz_balance_exit_idle
0.21% hackbench [k] nohz_balancer_kick
0.09% swapper [k] nohz_run_idle_balance
With patch:
0.35% hackbench [k] nohz_balance_exit_idle
0.09% hackbench [k] nohz_balancer_kick
0.07% swapper [k] nohz_run_idle_balance
[Ingo Molnar: scalability analysis changlog]
Reviewed-and-tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115073524.376643-4-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
These days most of the system have multi cores. The likelyhood of
at least one or more CPUs in nohz (idle state) is higher.
Give accurate hint to the branch predictor.
Reviewed-and-tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115073524.376643-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Current code does.
- Read nohz.nr_cpus
- Check if the time has passed to do NOHZ idle balance
Instead do this.
- Check if the time has passed to do NOHZ idle balance
- Read nohz.nr_cpus
This will skip the read most of the time in normal system usage.
i.e when there are nohz.nr_cpus (system is not 100% busy).
Note that when there are no idle CPUs(100% busy), even if the flag gets
set to NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_NEXT_KICK, find_new_ilb will fail and
there will be no NOHZ idle balance. In such cases there will be a very
narrow window where, kick_ilb will be called un-necessarily.
However current functionality is still retained.
Note: This patch doesn't solve any cacheline overheads. No improvement
in performance apart from saving a few cycles of reading nohz.nr_cpus
Reviewed-and-tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115073524.376643-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
The avg_vruntime comment contains a couple of mathematical notation
issues:
- The summation over w_i * (V - v_i) is written in an ambiguous form
- The delta term refers to v instead of v0, which is inconsistent
with the code and preceding explanation
Fix these to make the comment mathematically correct and consistent
with the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114090035.19033-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the
kernel.org account.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the group_has_spare case, the function creates a temporary cpumask
to just calculate weight of (p->cpus_ptr & sched_group_span(local)).
We've got a dedicated helper for it.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Fernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251207034247.402926-1-yury.norov@gmail.com
Use for_each_cpu_and() and drop some housekeeping code.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251207033037.399608-1-yury.norov@gmail.com
cpumask_empty() call is O(N) and useless because the previous
cpumask_and() returns false for empty 'cpus'. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251207040543.407695-1-yury.norov@gmail.com
This demonstrates a larger conversion to use Clang's context
analysis. The benefit is additional static checking of locking rules,
along with better documentation.
Notably, kernel/sched contains sufficiently complex synchronization
patterns, and application to core.c & fair.c demonstrates that the
latest Clang version has become powerful enough to start applying this
to more complex subsystems (with some modest annotations and changes).
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-37-elver@google.com
