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K Prateek Nayak
fdfe5a8cd8 sched/fair: Attach sched_domain_shared to sd_asym_cpucapacity
On asymmetric CPU capacity systems, the wakeup path uses
select_idle_capacity(), which scans the span of sd_asym_cpucapacity
rather than sd_llc.

The has_idle_cores hint however lives on sd_llc->shared, so the
wakeup-time read of has_idle_cores operates on an LLC-scoped blob while
the actual scan/decision spans the asym domain; nr_busy_cpus also lives
in the same shared sched_domain data, but it's never used in the asym
CPU capacity scenario.

Therefore, move the sched_domain_shared object to sd_asym_cpucapacity
whenever the CPU has a SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL ancestor and that
ancestor is non-overlapping (i.e., not built from SD_NUMA). In that case
the scope of has_idle_cores matches the scope of the wakeup scan.

Fall back to attaching the shared object to sd_llc in three cases:

  1) plain symmetric systems (no SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL anywhere);

  2) CPUs in an exclusive cpuset that carves out a symmetric capacity
     island: has_asym is system-wide but those CPUs have no
     SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL ancestor in their hierarchy and follow
     the symmetric LLC path in select_idle_sibling();

  3) exotic topologies where SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL lands on an
     SD_NUMA-built domain. init_sched_domain_shared() keys the shared
     blob off cpumask_first(span), which on overlapping NUMA domains
     would alias unrelated spans onto the same blob. Keep the shared
     object on the LLC there; select_idle_capacity() gracefully skips
     the has_idle_cores preference when sd->shared is NULL.

While at it, also rename the per-CPU sd_llc_shared to sd_balance_shared,
as it is no longer strictly tied to the LLC.

Co-developed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260516055850.1345932-1-arighi@nvidia.com
2026-05-19 12:17:38 +02:00
Andrea Righi
c9d93a73ce sched/fair: Drop redundant RCU read lock in NOHZ kick path
nohz_balancer_kick() is reached from sched_balance_trigger(), which is
called from sched_tick(). sched_tick() runs with IRQs disabled, so the
additional rcu_read_lock/unlock() used around sched_domain accesses in
this path is redundant. Rely on the existing IRQ-disabled context (and
the rcu_dereference_all() checking) instead.

The same applies to set_cpu_sd_state_idle(), called from the idle entry
path with IRQs disabled, and to set_cpu_sd_state_busy(), reachable via
nohz_balance_exit_idle() from two contexts: nohz_balancer_kick() (IRQs
disabled, as above) and sched_cpu_deactivate() (the CPUHP_AP_ACTIVE
teardown, which runs under cpus_write_lock(), so it cannot race with
sched-domain rebuilds). In both cases the rcu_dereference_all()
validation is sufficient.

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260509180955.1840064-2-arighi@nvidia.com
2026-05-19 12:17:37 +02:00
Shrikanth Hegde
acbdbab75f sched: Unify SMT active check via sched_smt_active()
There is a use of sched_smt_active() and explicit use of sched_smt_present.
Remove the explicit usage for better code maintenance and readability.

Note that this differs slightly for update_idle_core. It used to call
static_branch_unlikely earlier and now it will call static_branch_likely.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515172456.542799-5-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
2026-05-19 12:17:37 +02:00
Shrikanth Hegde
3dbb362f90 sched/fair: Add sched_smt_active check for fastpaths
For fastpaths such as wakeup and load balance even minimal code additions
can add up. is_core_idle is accessed during load balance.

Other callsites of is_core_idle make sched_smt_active() check first.
Make the same check in should_we_balance.

Rest of access to cpu_smt_mask isn't in fastpath.

Note: Remove the stale comment above is_core_idle. Enqueue methods
of fair aren't close to it anymore.

Suggested-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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515172456.542799-4-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
2026-05-19 12:17:37 +02:00
Shrikanth Hegde
5bc6ab2d42 sched: Simplify ifdeffery around cpu_smt_mask
Now, that cpu_smt_mask is defined as cpumask_of(cpu) for
CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=n, it is possible to get rid of the ifdeffery.

Effectively,
 - This makes sched_smt_present is defined always

 - cpumask_weight(cpumask_of(cpu)) == 1. So sched_smt_present_inc/dec
   will never enable the sched_smt_present. Which is expected.

 - Paths that were compile-time eliminated become runtime guarded
   using static keys.

 - Defines set_idle_cores, test_idle_cores, etc which could likely benefit
   the CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=n systems to use the same optimizations within the
   LLC at wakeups.

 - This will expose sched_smt_present symbol for CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=n.
   Likely not a concern.

 - There is a bloat of code CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=n. (NR_CPUS=2048)
   add/remove: 24/18 grow/shrink: 26/28 up/down: 6396/-3188 (3208)
   Total: Before=30629880, After=30633088, chg +0.01%

 - No code bloat for CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y, which is expected.

 - Add comments around stop_core_cpuslocked on why ifdefs are not
   removed.

 - This leaves the remaining uses of CONFIG_SCHED_SMT mainly for
   topology building bits which has a policy based decision.

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515172456.542799-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
2026-05-19 12:17:37 +02:00
Vincent Guittot
6d2051403d sched/fair: Update util_est after updating util_avg during dequeue
util_est_update() must be called after updating util_avg during the dequeue
of a task and only when the task is not delayed dequeue.

Move util_est_update() in update_load_avg().

Fixes: b55945c500 ("sched: Fix pick_next_task_fair() vs try_to_wake_up() race")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260512124653.305275-1-qyousef@layalina.io/
Reported-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260518102345.268452-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2026-05-19 12:17:36 +02:00
Nicolas Pitre
95f44886af sched/cputime: Drop now-stale mul_u64_u64_div_u64() over-approximation guard
Commit 77baa5bafc ("sched/cputime: Fix mul_u64_u64_div_u64() precision
for cputime") added a clamp in cputime_adjust():

	if (unlikely(stime > rtime))
		stime = rtime;

The justification was that mul_u64_u64_div_u64() could over-approximate
on some architectures (notably arm64 and the old 32-bit fallback), so
the mathematically impossible stime > rtime was nevertheless reachable
and would underflow utime = rtime - stime.

That premise no longer holds. Commit b29a62d87c ("mul_u64_u64_div_u64:
make it precise always") replaced the fallback implementation with an
exact 128-bit long division, and the x86_64 inline asm already produced
exact results. The helper now returns the mathematically correct
floor(a*b/d) on every architecture, so stime <= rtime is guaranteed by
stime <= stime + utime and the clamp is dead code.

Remove it along with its stale comment.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260514202629.673539-1-nico@fluxnic.net
2026-05-19 12:17:35 +02:00
Yuri Andriaccio
eecd5e117c sched/deadline: Fix replenishment logic for non-deferred servers
Enqueue and replenish non-deferred deadline servers when their runtime is
exhausted and the replenishment timer could not be started because it is
too close to the wake-up instant.

Signed-off-by: Yuri Andriaccio <yurand2000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260430213835.62217-2-yurand2000@gmail.com
2026-05-19 12:17:35 +02:00
Yuri Andriaccio
c2e390197a sched/rt: Update default bandwidth for real-time tasks to ONE
Set the default total bandwidth for SCHED_DEADLINE tasks and servers
to ONE.  FIFO/RR tasks are already throttled by fair-servers and
ext-servers, and the sysctl_sched_rt_runtime parameter now only
defines the total bw that is allowed to deadline entities.

Signed-off-by: Yuri Andriaccio <yurand2000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260430213835.62217-22-yurand2000@gmail.com
2026-05-19 12:17:35 +02:00
Chen Yu
c99b8593b0 sched/cache: Fix stale preferred_llc for a new task
On fork without CLONE_VM, the child gets a new mm,
the parent's preferred_llc value is stale for the
child.

Fix this by resetting the task's preferred_llc to -1.

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: 47d8696b95 ("sched/cache: Assign preferred LLC ID to processes")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0ec7309d0e24ede97656754d1505b7490403d966.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:18 +02:00
Chen Yu
a7660ce159 sched/cache: Fix has_multi_llcs iff at least one partition has multiple LLCs
sched_cache_present is a global static key, but build_sched_domains()
is called per partition from the "Build new domains" loop in
partition_sched_domains_locked(). Each call unconditionally sets the
key based solely on the has_multi_llcs local variable for that partition.

The call to the last partition set the value even when there
are previous partitions with multiple LLCs.

If partition A (multi-LLC) is built first, the key is enabled. Then
when partition B (single-LLC) is built, the key is disabled. The
multi-LLC partition A is still active but the key is now off.

Fix it by doing a similar thing as sched_energy_present: check the
multi-LLCs during the iteration over all the partitions rather than
checking it on a single partition.

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: d59f4fd1d3 ("sched/cache: Enable cache aware scheduling for multi LLCs NUMA node")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c541af2547d54509fbfd3b3a1e8072e2e5c7ff68.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:18 +02:00
Chen Yu
5beff4f087 sched/cache: Fix cache aware scheduling enabling for multi LLCs system
If there are multiple LLCs in the system, cache aware scheduling
should be enabled. However, there is a corner case where, if there
is a single NUMA node and a single LLC per node, cache aware
scheduling will be turned on in the current implementation -
because at this moment, the parent domain has not yet been
degenerated, and it is possible that the current domain has the
same cpu span as its parent. There is no need to turn cache aware
scheduling on in this scenario.

Fix it by iterating the parent domains to find a domain that is
a superset of the current sd_llc, so that later, after the duplicated
parent domains have been degenerated, cache aware scheduling will
take effect.

For example, the expected behavior would be:
2 sockets, 1 LLC per socket: MC span=0-3, PKG span=0-7, has_multi_llcs=true
1 socket, 2 LLCs per socket: MC span=0-3, PKG span=0-7, has_multi_llcs=true
2 sockets, 2 LLCs per socket: MC span=0-3, PKG span=0-7, has_multi_llcs=true
1 socket, 1 LLC per socket: MC span=0-3, PKG span=0-3, has_multi_llcs=false

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: d59f4fd1d3 ("sched/cache: Enable cache aware scheduling for multi LLCs NUMA node")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6328a8a7f40925cec2a712d81ee58128a4c4444a.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:18 +02:00
Chen Yu
9f7c745850 sched/cache: Fix race condition during sched domain rebuild
sched_cache_active_set_unlocked() checks hardware support without
locks:
static void sched_cache_active_set(bool locked)
{
        /* hardware does not support */
        if (!static_branch_likely(&sched_cache_present)) {
                _sched_cache_active_set(false, locked);
                return;
        }
    ...
If build_sched_domains() runs concurrently during CPU hotplug,
it can disable sched_cache_present under sched_domains_mutex
and the CPU hotplug lock. If a debugfs write thread evaluates
sched_cache_present as true right before that, and then blocks
or gets preempted, it might proceed to enable sched_cache_active
after the hardware support has been marked as absent. Make it
safer by acquiring cpus_read_lock() and sched_domains_mutex_lock()
when the user changes sched_cache_active via debugfs.

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: 067a313581 ("sched/cache: Allow the user space to turn on and off cache aware scheduling")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9afddf439687f04bb56b46625bd9f153eb8abad5.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:17 +02:00
Chen Yu
d6b9afab44 sched/cache: Fix checking active load balance by only considering the CFS task
The currently running task cur may not be a CFS task, such as
an RT or Deadline task. For non-CFS tasks, the task_util(cur)
utilization average is not maintained, so this might pass a
stale or meaningless value to can_migrate_llc().

Check if the task is CFS before getting its task_util().

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: 714059f79f ("sched/cache: Handle moving single tasks to/from their preferred LLC")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f9161133cf040d286dca11344a112c5ef2a5253d.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:17 +02:00
Chen Yu
03755348b8 sched/cache: Fix unpaired account_llc_enqueue/dequeue
There is a race condition that, after a task is enqueued
on a runqueue, task_llc(p) may change due to CPU hotplug,
because the llc_id is dynamically allocated and adjusted
at runtime.
Therefore, checking task_llc(p) to determine whether the
task is being dequeued from its preferred LLC is unreliable
and can cause inconsistent values.

To fix this problem, record whether p is enqueued on its
preferred LLC, in order to pair with account_llc_dequeue()
to maintain a consistent nr_pref_llc_running per runqueue.

This bug was reported by sashiko, and the solution was once
suggested by Prateek.

Fixes: 46afe3af7e ("sched/cache: Track LLC-preferred tasks per runqueue")
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0c8c6a1571d66792a4d2ff0103ba3cc13e059046.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:17 +02:00
Chen Yu
91d07324c9 sched/cache: Annotate lockless accesses to mm->sc_stat.cpu
mm->sc_stat.cpu is written by task_cache_work() and could be read
locklessly by several functions on other CPUs.  Use READ_ONCE and
WRITE_ONCE on mm->sc_stat.cpu access and write to prevent inconsistent
values from compiler optimizations when there are multiple accesses.

For example in get_pref_llc(), if the writer updated the field between
two compiler-generated loads, the validation (e.g., cpu != -1) and
subsequent use (e.g., llc_id(cpu)) could operate on different values,
allowing a negative CPU ID to be used as an index.

Leave plain write in mm_init_sched(), where the mm is not
yet visible to other CPUs.

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: 47d8696b95 ("sched/cache: Assign preferred LLC ID to processes")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/63ea494f12efcf265d7134400a06cd75d7f2c310.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:16 +02:00
Chen Yu
9f23469401 sched/cache: Fix potential NULL mm pointer access
A concurrent task exit might cause a NULL pointer dereference
in account_mm_sched(). Use the locally cached mm pointer instead,
since the active_mm reference guarantees the structure remains
allocated. Meanwhile, skip the kernel thread because it has
nothing to do with cache aware scheduling.

This bug was reported by sashiko and Vern.

Fixes: df0d984759 ("sched/cache: Introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load balancing")
Reported-by: Vern Hao <haoxing990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/09cf7ee3-6e27-4505-9692-4b4a4707c8b2@gmail.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/066d8cfa45d4822bf4367e788c50377c66bbcc82.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:16 +02:00
Chen Yu
d943b86dfb sched/cache: Fix rcu warning when accessing sd_llc domain
rcu_dereference_all() should be used to access the
sd_llc domain under RCU protection.

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: df0d984759 ("sched/cache: Introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load balancing")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2dc49455e861215d8059a1c877953f0b95990038.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:16 +02:00
Chen Yu
c1e7fe5e75 sched/cache: Add user control to adjust the aggressiveness of cache-aware scheduling
Introduce a set of debugfs knobs to control how aggressively the
cache aware scheduling does the task aggregation.

(1) aggr_tolerance
With sched_cache enabled, the scheduler uses a process's footprint
as a proxy for its LLC footprint to determine if aggregating tasks
on the preferred LLC could cause cache contention. If the footprint
exceeds the LLC size, aggregation is skipped. Since the kernel
cannot efficiently track per-task cache usage (resctrl is
user-space only), userspace can provide a more accurate hint.

Introduce /sys/kernel/debug/sched/llc_balancing/aggr_tolerance to
let users control how strictly footprint limits aggregation. Values
range from 0 to 100:
  - 0: Cache-aware scheduling is disabled.
  - 1: Strict; tasks with footprint larger than LLC size are skipped.
  - >=100: Aggressive; tasks are aggregated regardless of footprint.
For example, with a 32MB L3 cache:

  - aggr_tolerance=1 -> tasks with footprint > 32MB are skipped.
  - aggr_tolerance=99 -> tasks with footprint > 784GB are skipped
    (784GB = (1 + (99 - 1) * 256) * 32MB).
Similarly, /sys/kernel/debug/sched/llc_balancing/aggr_tolerance also
controls how strictly the number of active threads is considered when
doing cache aware load balance. The number of SMTs is also considered.
High SMT counts reduce the aggregation capacity, preventing excessive
task aggregation on SMT-heavy systems like Power10/Power11.

Yangyu suggested introducing separate aggregation controls for the
number of active threads and memory footprint checks. Since there are
plans to add per-process/task group controls, fine-grained tunables are
deferred to that implementation.

(2) epoch_period, epoch_affinity_timeout,
    imb_pct, overaggr_pct are also turned into tunables.

Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@outlook.com>
Suggested-by: Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1c62cc060ba2b33d7b1f0ed98b3390128edbae93.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:15 +02:00
Chen Yu
808915f982 sched/cache: Avoid cache-aware scheduling for memory-heavy processes
Prateek and Tingyin reported that memory-intensive workloads (such as
stream) can saturate memory bandwidth and caches on the preferred LLC
when sched_cache aggregates too many threads.

To mitigate this, estimate a process's memory footprint by comparing
its NUMA balancing fault statistics to the size of the LLC. If the
footprint exceeds the LLC size, skip cache-aware scheduling.

Note that footprint is only an approximation of the memory footprint,
since the kernel lacks suitable metrics to estimate the real working
set. If a user-provided hint is available in the future, it would be
more accurate. A later patch will allow users to provide a hint to
adjust this threshold.

Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Vern Hao <vernhao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/95cf64a385bcc12f18dcebe9d59e8d3ba8bb318f.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:15 +02:00
Chen Yu
7030513a08 sched/cache: Calculate the LLC size and store it in sched_domain
Cache aware scheduling needs to know the LLC size that a process
can use, so as to avoid memory-intensive tasks from being
over-aggregated on a single LLC.

Introduce a preparation patch to add get_effective_llc_bytes() to
get the LLC size that a CPU can use. The function can be further
enhanced by subtracting the LLC cache ways reserved by resctrl
(CAT in Intel RDT, etc).

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/37afee09ff608034da0ce149e72d33b6f4698edf.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:15 +02:00
Chen Yu
7b34bb1ca3 sched/cache: Skip cache-aware scheduling for single-threaded processes
For a single thread, the current wakeup path tends to place it
on the same LLC where it was previously running with cache-hot
data. There is no need to enable cache-aware scheduling for
single-threaded processes for the following reasons:

1. Cache-aware scheduling primarily benefits multi-threaded
   processes where threads share data. Single-threaded processes
   typically have no inter-thread data sharing and thus gain little.

2. Enabling it incurs the additional overhead of tracking the
   thread's residency in the LLCs.

3. Bypassing single-threaded processes avoids excessive
   concentration of such tasks on a single LLC.

Nevertheless, this check can be omitted if users explicitly
provide hints for such single-threaded workloads where different
processes have shared memory, e.g., via prctl() or other interfaces
to be added in the future.

Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8a59a13aa58fdb48e410ecb2aabd97fe3ea5d256.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:14 +02:00
Chen Yu
deee5e27d5 sched/cache: Disable cache aware scheduling for processes with high thread counts
A performance regression was observed by Prateek when running hackbench
with many threads per process (high fd count). To avoid this, processes
with a large number of active threads are excluded from cache-aware
scheduling.

With sched_cache enabled, record the number of active threads in each
process during the periodic task_cache_work(). While iterating over
CPUs, if the currently running task belongs to the same process as the
task that launched task_cache_work(), increment the active thread count.

If the number of active threads within the process exceeds the number
of Cores (divided by the SMT number) in the LLC, do not enable
cache-aware scheduling. However, on systems with a smaller number of
CPUs within 1 LLC, like Power10/Power11 with SMT4 and an LLC size of 4,
this check effectively disables cache-aware scheduling for any process.
One possible solution suggested by Peter is to use an LLC-mask instead
of a single LLC value for preference. Once there are a 'few' LLCs as
preference, this constraint becomes a little easier. It could be an
enhancement in the future.

For users who wish to perform task aggregation regardless, a debugfs knob
is provided for tuning in a subsequent change.

Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d076cd21a8e6c6341d1e2d927e118db770ebb650.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:14 +02:00
Jianyong Wu
a2b4cf39d9 sched/cache: Allow only 1 thread of the process to calculate the LLC occupancy
Scanning online CPUs to calculate the occupancy might be
time-consuming. Only allow 1 thread of the process to scan
the CPUs at the same time, which is similar to what
NUMA balance does in task_numa_work().

Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <wujianyong@hygon.cn>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5672b52e588b855b01e5a1a17822f7c6c7237a3d.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-05-18 21:33:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo
1136fb1213 Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Pull to receive:

 39e25a2100 ("sched_ext: Drop NONE early return in scx_disable_and_exit_task()")
 b273b75b8d ("sched_ext: INIT_LIST_HEAD() &sch->all in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()")
 cceb874eee ("sched_ext: Defer sub_kset base put to scx_sched_free_rcu_work")
 6ae315d379 ("sched_ext: Use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT to detect isolcpus= domain isolation")
 515e3996a4 ("sched_ext: Fix deadlock between scx_root_disable() and concurrent forks")

to prepare for-7.2 for further sub-sched changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-17 10:31:10 -10:00
Tejun Heo
515e3996a4 sched_ext: Fix deadlock between scx_root_disable() and concurrent forks
scx_root_disable() enters SCX_DISABLING before it grabs scx_enable_mutex to
clear __scx_switched_all and scx_switching_all. task_should_scx() short-circuits on DISABLING,
so forks in that window land on fair while next_active_class() still skips
fair - the new tasks stall.

This can deadlock the disable path itself: scx_alloc_and_add_sched() runs
under scx_enable_mutex and creates a helper kthread; if that new kthread is
one of the stalled fair tasks, the mutex holder waits forever and
scx_root_disable() can never make progress. Only sub-sched support exposes
this, since sub-sched enables are the only path where
scx_alloc_and_add_sched() can race the root's disable.

Move the DISABLING check after @scx_switching_all. @scx_switching_all
serves as a proxy for __scx_switched_all, so while it's set, forks keep
going to scx. Once cleared, DISABLING applies normally.

v2: Reword in-source comment and description. (Andrea)

Fixes: 337ec00b1d ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup sub-sched enabling and disabling")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-17 09:06:38 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
59a62ea458 sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc3
Bulk is hardening of the new sub-scheduler infrastructure.
 
 - UAFs and lifecycle bugs on the sub-sched attach/detach paths: parent
   sub_kset freed under a racing child, list_del_rcu on an uninitialized
   list head, ops->priv stomped by concurrent attach/detach, and a UAF in
   the init-failure error path.
 
 - Task state-machine reorg closing concurrent enable-vs-dead races: a
   task exiting during the unlocked init window could trip NULL ops
   derefs or skip exit_task() cleanup.
 
 - A scx_link_sched() self-deadlock on scx_sched_lock.
 
 - isolcpus: stop dereferencing the now-RCU-protected HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
   cpumask without RCU, and stop rejecting BPF schedulers when only
   cpuset isolated partitions are active.
 
 - PREEMPT_RT: disable irq_work runs in hardirq context so dumps show the
   failing task rather than the irq_work kthread.
 
 - Assorted !CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED, randconfig, and selftest build fixes.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "The bulk of this is hardening of the new sub-scheduler infrastructure.

   - UAFs and lifecycle bugs on the sub-sched attach/detach paths:
     parent sub_kset freed under a racing child, list_del_rcu on an
     uninitialized list head, ops->priv stomped by concurrent
     attach/detach, and a UAF in the init-failure error path

   - Task state-machine reorg closing concurrent enable-vs-dead races: a
     task exiting during the unlocked init window could trip NULL ops
     derefs or skip exit_task() cleanup

   - A scx_link_sched() self-deadlock on scx_sched_lock

   - isolcpus: stop dereferencing the now-RCU-protected HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
     cpumask without RCU, and stop rejecting BPF schedulers when only
     cpuset isolated partitions are active

   - PREEMPT_RT: disable irq_work runs in hardirq context so dumps show
     the failing task rather than the irq_work kthread

   - Assorted !CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED, randconfig, and selftest build
     fixes"

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: Use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT to detect isolcpus= domain isolation
  sched_ext: Defer sub_kset base put to scx_sched_free_rcu_work
  sched_ext: INIT_LIST_HEAD() &sch->all in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()
  sched_ext: Drop NONE early return in scx_disable_and_exit_task()
  sched_ext: Avoid UAF in scx_root_enable_workfn() init failure path
  sched_ext: Clear ops->priv on scx_alloc_and_add_sched() error paths
  sched_ext: Fix ops->priv clobber on concurrent attach/detach
  selftests/sched_ext: Fix build error in dequeue selftest
  sched_ext: Handle SCX_TASK_NONE in disable/switched_from paths
  sched_ext: Close sub-sched init race with post-init DEAD recheck
  sched_ext: Close root-enable vs sched_ext_dead() race with SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN
  sched_ext: Replace SCX_TASK_OFF_TASKS flag with SCX_TASK_DEAD state
  sched_ext: Inline scx_init_task() and move RESET_RUNNABLE_AT into scx_set_task_state()
  sched_ext: Cleanups in preparation for the SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN/DEAD work
  sched_ext: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to initialize sch->disable_irq_work
  sched_ext: Fix !CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED build warnings
  sched_ext: Drop unused scx_find_sub_sched() stub
  sched_ext: Move scx_error() out of scx_link_sched()'s lock region
2026-05-13 15:00:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0913b580f8 cgroup: Fixes for v7.1-rc3
- cpuset fixes:
   - Partition invalidation could return CPUs still in use by sibling
     partitions, producing overlapping effective_cpus.
   - cpuset_can_attach() over-reserved DL bandwidth on moves that stayed
     within the same root domain.
   - Pending DL migration state leaked into later attaches when a later
     can_attach() check failed.
   - Reorder PF_EXITING and __GFP_HARDWALL checks so dying tasks can
     allocate from any node and exit quickly.
 
 - dmem: propagate -ENOMEM instead of spinning forever when the fallback
   pool allocation also fails.
 
 - selftests/cgroup: percpu test error-path leak, bogus numeric
   comparison of cpuset strings, and a zero-length read() that silently
   passed OOM-kill tests.
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Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - cpuset fixes:
     - Partition invalidation could return CPUs still in use by sibling
       partitions, producing overlapping effective_cpus
     - cpuset_can_attach() over-reserved DL bandwidth on moves that
       stayed within the same root domain
     - Pending DL migration state leaked into later attaches when a
       later can_attach() check failed
     - Reorder PF_EXITING and __GFP_HARDWALL checks so dying tasks can
       allocate from any node and exit quickly

 - dmem: propagate -ENOMEM instead of spinning forever when the fallback
   pool allocation also fails

 - selftests/cgroup: percpu test error-path leak, bogus numeric
   comparison of cpuset strings, and a zero-length read() that silently
   passed OOM-kill tests

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/cpuset: Return only actually allocated CPUs during partition invalidation
  selftests/cgroup: Fix error path leaks in test_percpu_basic
  cgroup/cpuset: Reserve DL bandwidth only for root-domain moves
  cgroup/cpuset: Reset DL migration state on can_attach() failure
  selftests/cgroup: Fix string comparison in write_test
  selftests/cgroup: Fix cg_read_strcmp() empty string comparison
  cgroup/dmem: Return -ENOMEM on failed pool preallocation
  cgroup/cpuset: move PF_EXITING check before __GFP_HARDWALL in cpuset_current_node_allowed()
2026-05-13 14:56:31 -07:00
Andrea Righi
6ae315d379 sched_ext: Use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT to detect isolcpus= domain isolation
scx_enable() refuses to attach a BPF scheduler when isolcpus=domain is
in effect by comparing housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN) against
cpu_possible_mask.

Since commit 27c3a5967f ("sched/isolation: Convert housekeeping
cpumasks to rcu pointers"), HK_TYPE_DOMAIN's cpumask is RCU protected
and dereferencing it requires either RCU read lock, the cpu_hotplug
write lock, or the cpuset lock; scx_enable() holds none of these, so
booting with isolcpus=domain and attaching any BPF scheduler triggers
the following lockdep splat:

  =============================
  WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
  -----------------------------
  kernel/sched/isolation.c:60 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

  1 lock held by scx_flash/281:
   #0: ffffffff8379fce0 (update_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at:
       bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x134/0x1c0

  Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
   lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x37/0x70
   housekeeping_cpumask+0xcd/0xe0
   scx_enable.isra.0+0x17/0x120
   bpf_scx_reg+0x5e/0x80
   bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x151/0x1c0
   __sys_bpf+0x1e4b/0x33c0
   __x64_sys_bpf+0x21/0x30
   do_syscall_64+0x117/0xf80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

In addition, commit 03ff735101 ("cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask
from cpuset") made HK_TYPE_DOMAIN include cpuset isolated partitions as
well, which means the current check also rejects BPF schedulers when a
cpuset partition is active. That contradicts the original intent of
commit 9f391f94a1 ("sched_ext: Disallow loading BPF scheduler if
isolcpus= domain isolation is in effect"), which explicitly noted that
cpuset partitions are honored through per-task cpumasks and should not
be rejected.

Switch to housekeeping_enabled(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT), which reads only
the housekeeping flag bit (no RCU dereference) and reflects exactly the
boot-time isolcpus= configuration that the error message refers to.

Fixes: 27c3a5967f ("sched/isolation: Convert housekeeping cpumasks to rcu pointers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2026-05-13 10:02:57 -10:00
Tejun Heo
cceb874eee sched_ext: Defer sub_kset base put to scx_sched_free_rcu_work
scx_sub_enable_workfn() pins parent->kobj before dropping scx_sched_lock,
but that does not pin parent->sub_kset. Concurrent disable can
kset_unregister and free sub_kset before scx_alloc_and_add_sched()
dereferences it.

Split sub_kset teardown: kobject_del() at disable keeps sysfs removal; defer
kobject_put() to scx_sched_free_rcu_work so the memory survives. A racing
child sees state_in_sysfs=0 with valid memory, sysfs_create_dir() fails, and
the existing exit_kind gate in scx_link_sched() turns it away with -ENOENT.

Fixes: 411d3ef1a7 ("sched_ext: Unregister sub_kset on scheduler disable")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-12 11:28:56 -10:00
Tejun Heo
b273b75b8d sched_ext: INIT_LIST_HEAD() &sch->all in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()
On scx_link_sched() error paths (parent disabled, hash insert failure),
&sch->all is never added to scx_sched_all. The cleanup path runs
scx_unlink_sched() unconditionally, which calls list_del_rcu(&sch->all) on a
list_head that was never initialized triggering a corruption warning.

Initialize &sch->all.

Fixes: 54be8de423 ("sched_ext: Factor out scx_link_sched() and scx_unlink_sched()")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-12 11:28:56 -10:00
Tejun Heo
39e25a2100 sched_ext: Drop NONE early return in scx_disable_and_exit_task()
d3e73a0808 ("sched_ext: Handle SCX_TASK_NONE in disable/switched_from
paths") skipped the trailing scx_set_task_sched(p, NULL) on NONE tasks.
After scx_fail_parent() parks a task at NONE/sched=parent and the parent
is later freed via queue_rcu_work() during root_disable, the preserved
p->scx.sched dangles - print_scx_info() from sched_show_task() reads
sch->ops.name from freed memory.

Drop the early return. __scx_disable_and_exit_task() already short-
circuits on NONE and the SUB_INIT block was cleared by
scx_fail_parent()'s earlier call, so clearing p->scx.sched is the only
work left - and the one thing the path actually needs.

v2: Extend the SUB_INIT block comment to note that the flag is only
    set on the sub-enable path, so it's always clear on the NONE
    re-entry (Andrea).

Fixes: d3e73a0808 ("sched_ext: Handle SCX_TASK_NONE in disable/switched_from paths")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-12 11:13:58 -10:00
Tejun Heo
fbce803562 Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Pull to receive:

 9a415cc537 ("sched_ext: Avoid UAF in scx_root_enable_workfn() init failure path")

Conflicts with for-7.2's scx_task_iter_relock() rework. The fix moves
put_task_struct(p) past scx_error(); for-7.2 still has it at the old
position. Resolved by dropping the old one.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-11 12:43:39 -10:00
Tejun Heo
9a415cc537 sched_ext: Avoid UAF in scx_root_enable_workfn() init failure path
In scx_root_enable_workfn(), put_task_struct(p) is called before scx_error()
dereferences p->comm and p->pid. If the iterator's reference is the last
drop, the task is freed synchronously and the deref becomes a UAF.

Move put_task_struct() past scx_error().

Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260511214031.AF5E9C2BCB0@smtp.kernel.org/
Fixes: f0e1a0643a ("sched_ext: Implement BPF extensible scheduler class")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-11 12:05:48 -10:00
Tejun Heo
9740914d36 sched_ext: Mark !CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED dummy stubs static inline
Mark !CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED dummy stubs static inline to avoid
-Wunused-function in configs without callers. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-11 11:42:38 -10:00
Guopeng Zhang
5dd74441cb cgroup/cpuset: Reserve DL bandwidth only for root-domain moves
cpuset_can_attach() currently adds the bandwidth of all migrating
SCHED_DEADLINE tasks to sum_migrate_dl_bw. If the source and destination
cpuset effective CPU masks do not overlap, the whole sum is then
reserved in the destination root domain.

set_cpus_allowed_dl(), however, subtracts bandwidth from the source
root domain only when the affinity change really moves the task between
root domains. A DL task can move between cpusets that are still in the
same root domain, so including that task in sum_migrate_dl_bw can reserve
destination bandwidth without a matching source-side subtraction.

Share the root-domain move test with set_cpus_allowed_dl(). Keep
nr_migrate_dl_tasks counting all migrating deadline tasks for cpuset DL
task accounting, but add to sum_migrate_dl_bw only for tasks that need a
root-domain bandwidth move. Keep using the destination cpuset effective
CPU mask and leave the broader can_attach()/attach() transaction model
unchanged.

Fixes: 2ef269ef1a ("cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-11 10:27:14 -10:00
Andrea Righi
fbe3fb1035 sched_ext: Replace tryget_task_struct() with get_task_struct()
The tryget_task_struct() calls in scx_sub_disable(),
scx_root_enable_workfn() and scx_sub_enable_workfn() can never fail at
the points they're invoked:

 - scx_root_enable_workfn() iterates over scx_tasks under scx_tasks_lock
   and rq lock. sched_ext_dead() removes tasks from scx_tasks under the
   same scx_tasks_lock before put_task_struct_rcu_user() runs in
   finish_task_switch(). So any task observed in scx_tasks must have
   usage > 0; put_task_struct_rcu_user() hasn't been called and the
   delayed_put_task_struct() callback that decrements usage cannot have
   been queued.

 - scx_sub_disable() and scx_sub_enable_workfn() iterate via
   css_task_iter, which takes a reference on each task in
   css_task_iter_next() and holds it until the next iter_next() call, so
   usage > 0 is guaranteed by the iter itself.

The actual filter for dead tasks is the SCX_TASK_DEAD check inside
scx_task_iter_next_locked(), not tryget; tryget only fails on zero
usage, a state that can't be reached for tasks visible to these iters.

Commit b7d4b28db7 ("sched_ext: Use SCX_TASK_READY test instead of
tryget_task_struct() during class switch") removed an analogous tryget
in the class-switch loop. Convert the remaining tryget calls to plain
get_task_struct() and update the comment in scx_root_enable_workfn()
that suggested tasks could be observed with zero @usage waiting for an
RCU grace period.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agCLBxHEUqWIepx8@google.com
Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-11 09:32:30 -10:00
Andrea Righi
86ecb1c1a1 sched_ext: Clear ops->priv on scx_alloc_and_add_sched() error paths
scx_alloc_and_add_sched() can fail after @sch has been assigned to
ops->priv. In those cases @sch is torn down (either via kfree() through
the err_free_* chain or via kobject_put() -> scx_kobj_release() -> RCU
work), but @ops->priv is left pointing at the about-to-be-freed pointer.

With the recent -EBUSY gate in scx_root_enable_workfn() and
scx_sub_enable_workfn() that rejects an attach when @ops->priv is still
non-NULL, see commit bbf30b383c ("sched_ext: Fix ops->priv clobber on
concurrent attach/detach"), a dangling @ops->priv permanently locks the
kdata out: every future attach attempt sees a stale binding and returns
-EBUSY even though no scheduler is actually attached.

Clear @ops->priv on the post-assign failure paths so that the kdata
returns to its pre-attach state when the function returns ERR_PTR().

Fixes: bbf30b383c ("sched_ext: Fix ops->priv clobber on concurrent attach/detach")
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-10 22:50:31 -10:00
Andrea Righi
bbf30b383c sched_ext: Fix ops->priv clobber on concurrent attach/detach
Under heavy concurrent attach/detach operations, scx_claim_exit() can
trigger a NULL pointer dereference. This can be reproduced running the
reload_loop kselftests inside a virtme-ng session:

 $ vng -v -- ./tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/runner -t reload_loop
 ...
 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000400
 RIP: 0010:scx_claim_exit+0x3b/0x120
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  bpf_scx_unreg+0x45/0xb0
  bpf_struct_ops_map_link_dealloc+0x39/0x50
  bpf_link_release+0x18/0x20
  __fput+0x10b/0x2e0
  __x64_sys_close+0x47/0xa0

The underlying race (diagnosed by Tejun Heo) is a stomp of @ops->priv,
not a missing NULL check:

  T2 unreg(K)                       T1 reg(K)
  -----------                       ---------
  sch = ops->priv = sch_b800
  scx_disable; flush_disable_work
    [scx_root_disable: scx_root=NULL,
     mutex_unlock, state=DISABLED]
                                    mutex_lock; state ok
                                    scx_alloc_and_add_sched:
                                      ops->priv = sch_a800
                                    scx_root = sch_a800; init=0
                                    state=ENABLED; mutex_unlock
    [flush returns]
  RCU_INIT_POINTER(ops->priv, NULL) <-- clobbers sch_a800
  kobject_put(sch_b800)

T1 acquires scx_enable_mutex inside scx_root_disable()'s mutex_unlock
window and starts a fresh attach on the same kdata, assigning sch_a800
to @ops->priv. T2 then continues out of scx_disable()/flush_disable_work
and clobbers @ops->priv to NULL, leaking sch_a800; the bpf_link is gone
but state stays SCX_ENABLED, so all future attaches fail with -EBUSY
permanently. The next bpf_scx_unreg() on that kdata then reads NULL
@ops->priv and dereferences it in scx_claim_exit().

Make @ops->priv the lifecycle binding: in scx_root_enable_workfn() and
scx_sub_enable_workfn(), after the existing state check and still under
scx_enable_mutex, refuse with -EBUSY if @ops->priv is non-NULL. This
rejects an attempt to reuse a kdata that is still bound to a previous
scheduler instance, closing the race without changing the unreg side.

Fixes: 105dcd005b ("sched_ext: Introduce scx_prog_sched()")
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-10 21:40:03 -10:00
Tejun Heo
b5646c6276 Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Conflict between:

 [1] 41e3312861 ("sched_ext: add p->scx.tid and SCX_OPS_TID_TO_TASK lookup")
 [2] c941d7391f ("sched_ext: Close root-enable vs sched_ext_dead() race with SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN")

in scx_root_enable_workfn()'s post-init block. [1] added a tid hash
insertion under a scoped_guard() for scx_tasks_lock; [2] wraps the same
region in task_rq_lock() for a DEAD recheck. A naive merge would invert the
iter's outer/inner order.

 [3] f25ad1e3cb ("sched_ext: Add scx_task_iter_relock() and use it in scx_root_enable_workfn()")

was added to for-7.2 for a clean resolution: scx_task_iter_relock(iter, p)
takes both scx_tasks_lock and @p's rq lock in iter order.

Resolved by routing both sides through [3]'s dual-lock helper: the post-init
region runs under a single scx_task_iter_relock() acquisition, with [2]'s
state machine and [1]'s hash insert in sequence inside it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-10 12:51:09 -10:00
Tejun Heo
f25ad1e3cb sched_ext: Add scx_task_iter_relock() and use it in scx_root_enable_workfn()
scx_root_enable_workfn()'s post-init block re-acquires scx_tasks_lock
briefly via a scoped_guard() for the tid hash insertion. c941d7391f
("sched_ext: Close root-enable vs sched_ext_dead() race with
SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN") on for-7.1-fixes adds a post-init DEAD recheck that
holds the task's rq lock across the state-machine updates in the same
region. A naive merge would acquire scx_tasks_lock while the rq lock is
held, inverting the iter's outer/inner order (scx_tasks_lock then rq lock).

Add scx_task_iter_relock(iter, p), the counterpart to
scx_task_iter_unlock(), that re-acquires scx_tasks_lock and, if @p is
non-NULL, @p's rq lock. The locks are tracked in @iter so subsequent
iteration releases them.

Use it in scx_root_enable_workfn()'s post-init block and drop the
now-redundant scoped_guard on the hash insertion. The post-init region now
runs with both scx_tasks_lock and the task's rq lock held across the init
failure check, the state-machine updates and the hash insert.

v2: Move scx_task_iter_relock() earlier to ease the for-7.1-fixes merge.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-10 12:43:24 -10:00
Tejun Heo
d3e73a0808 sched_ext: Handle SCX_TASK_NONE in disable/switched_from paths
scx_fail_parent() leaves cgroup tasks at (state=NONE, sched=parent,
sched_class=ext) until the parent itself is torn down by the scx_error() it
raised. When the later root_disable iterates them, two paths trip on NONE.

scx_disable_and_exit_task() re-enters the wrapper at NONE: the inner switch
returns early but the trailing scx_set_task_sched(p, NULL) clobbers the
parent sched left by scx_fail_parent(), and scx_set_task_state(p, NONE)
wastes a write on an already-NONE task. switched_from_scx() then calls
scx_disable_task(), which WARNs on non-ENABLED state and writes state=READY,
producing a NONE -> READY transition the validation matrix rejects.

Treat NONE as "nothing to do" in both paths. Add a NONE early-return at the
top of scx_disable_and_exit_task() and a parallel NONE check in
switched_from_scx() next to task_dead_and_done().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-10 10:08:16 -10:00
Tejun Heo
cd6aab7367 sched_ext: Close sub-sched init race with post-init DEAD recheck
scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s init pass and scx_sub_disable() migration both
drop the rq lock to call __scx_init_task() against the other sched. A
TASK_DEAD @p can fall through sched_ext_dead() in that window.
sched_ext_dead() runs ops.exit_task() on the sched @p was attached to, not
on the sched whose init just completed, so the new allocation leaks.

Reuse the DEAD signal set by sched_ext_dead(). After __scx_init_task()
returns, take task_rq_lock(p) and check for DEAD; on hit, call
scx_sub_init_cancel_task() against the sub sched the init ran for and drop
@p; on miss, proceed as before.

Reported-by: zhidao su <suzhidao@xiaomi.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260429133155.3825247-1-suzhidao@xiaomi.com/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-10 10:08:16 -10:00
Tejun Heo
c941d7391f sched_ext: Close root-enable vs sched_ext_dead() race with SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN
scx_root_enable_workfn() drops the iter rq lock for ops.init_task() and a
TASK_DEAD @p can fall through sched_ext_dead() in that window. The race hits
when sched_ext_dead() observes SCX_TASK_INIT (the intermediate state before
@p->scx.sched is published) and dereferences NULL via SCX_HAS_OP(NULL,
exit_task), or observes SCX_TASK_NONE during the unlocked init window and
skips cleanup so exit_task() never runs.

Add SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN. The enable path writes NONE -> INIT_BEGIN under the
iter rq lock, then takes the rq lock again after init to walk INIT_BEGIN ->
INIT -> READY. sched_ext_dead() that wins the rq-lock race observes
INIT_BEGIN and sets DEAD without calling into ops; the post-init recheck
unwinds via scx_sub_init_cancel_task().

scx_fork() runs single-threaded against sched_ext_dead() (the task is not on
scx_tasks until scx_post_fork() adds it) so its INIT_BEGIN -> INIT walk
needs no rq-lock pairing; it rolls back to NONE on ops.init_task() failure.

The validation matrix grows the INIT_BEGIN row and the INIT_BEGIN -> DEAD
edge; INIT now requires INIT_BEGIN as the predecessor. scx_sub_disable()'s
migration writes INIT_BEGIN as a synthetic predecessor to satisfy the
tightened verification.

The sub-sched paths still race with sched_ext_dead() during the unlocked
init window. This will be fixed by the next patch.

Reported-by: zhidao su <suzhidao@xiaomi.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260429133155.3825247-1-suzhidao@xiaomi.com/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-10 10:08:16 -10:00
Tejun Heo
cceb8fa9cb sched_ext: Replace SCX_TASK_OFF_TASKS flag with SCX_TASK_DEAD state
SCX_TASK_OFF_TASKS marked tasks already through sched_ext_dead() so cgroup
task iteration would skip them. This can be expressed better with a task
state. Replace the flag with SCX_TASK_DEAD.

scx_disable_and_exit_task() resets state to NONE on its way out, so
sched_ext_dead() now sets DEAD after the wrapper returns. The validation
matrix grows NONE -> DEAD, warns on DEAD -> NONE, and tightens READY's
predecessor to INIT or ENABLED so the new DEAD value cannot silently
transition to READY.

Prepares for the following enable vs dead race fix.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-10 10:08:16 -10:00
Tejun Heo
938dd9ab2b sched_ext: Inline scx_init_task() and move RESET_RUNNABLE_AT into scx_set_task_state()
Prepare for the SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN/DEAD work that follows by collapsing the
scx_init_task() helper. Move the SCX_TASK_RESET_RUNNABLE_AT setting into
scx_set_task_state() on the INIT transition (it was set unconditionally at
every INIT site through the scx_init_task() helper), inline scx_init_task()
into scx_fork() and scx_root_enable_workfn(), and drop the helper.

As a side effect, scx_sub_disable() migration sequence now also sets
RESET_RUNNABLE_AT (it previously wrote INIT directly without going through
scx_init_task()). The flag triggers a runnable_at reset on the next
set_task_runnable(), which is harmless on a task that has just been moved
between scheds.

On root-enable, p->scx.flags is written without the task's rq lock. The task
isn't visible to scx yet, and a follow-up patch restores the lock-held
write.

v2: Note p->scx.flags rq-lock relaxation on root-enable path. (Andrea)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-10 10:08:16 -10:00
Tejun Heo
6947bea4b7 sched_ext: Cleanups in preparation for the SCX_TASK_INIT_BEGIN/DEAD work
Cleanups in preparation for the state-machine work that follows:

- Convert three sub-sched call sites that open-code
  rcu_assign_pointer(p->scx.sched, ...) to scx_set_task_sched().

- Move scx_get_task_state()/scx_set_task_state() above the SCX task iter
  section so scx_task_iter_next_locked() can use them without a forward
  declaration.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-10 10:08:16 -10:00
Tejun Heo
03d958da4f sched_ext: Fix ops_cid layout assert
ca1d48a86f ("sched_ext: Use offsetofend on both sides of the ops_cid
layout assert") replaced sizeof() with offsetofend() to dodge 32-bit
PPC trailing padding, but the resulting check is tautological: with
CID_OFFSET_MATCH(priv, priv) already enforcing offsetof(priv) equality
and @priv being the same type in both structs, the two offsetofends
are equal by construction. The original protection - catching a stray
field added past @priv in sched_ext_ops_cid - is gone.

Anchor on a zero-size __end[] marker appended after @priv. Its offset
sits flush after @priv regardless of trailing struct padding; if a
field is inserted past @priv, __end shifts and the assert fires.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260508215211.0C03AC2BCB0@smtp.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
2026-05-09 05:49:59 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
7f00232152 Miscellaneous scheduler fixes:
- Fix spurious failures in rseq self-tests (Mark Brown)
 
  - Fix rseq rseq::cpu_id_start ABI regression due to
    TCMalloc's creative use of the supposedly read-only field.
    The fix is to introduce a new ABI variant based on
    a new (larger) rseq area registration size, to keep
    the TCMalloc use of rseq backwards compatible on new kernels.
    (Thomas Gleixner)
 
  - Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() for not waking up task (Vincent Guittot)
 
  - Fix s64 mult overflow in vruntime_eligible() (Zhan Xusheng)
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2026-05-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix spurious failures in rseq self-tests (Mark Brown)

 - Fix rseq rseq::cpu_id_start ABI regression due to TCMalloc's creative
   use of the supposedly read-only field

   The fix is to introduce a new ABI variant based on a new (larger)
   rseq area registration size, to keep the TCMalloc use of rseq
   backwards compatible on new kernels (Thomas Gleixner)

 - Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() for not waking up task (Vincent Guittot)

 - Fix s64 mult overflow in vruntime_eligible() (Zhan Xusheng)

* tag 'sched-urgent-2026-05-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() for not waking up task
  sched/fair: Fix overflow in vruntime_eligible()
  selftests/rseq: Expand for optimized RSEQ ABI v2
  rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally
  rseq: Implement read only ABI enforcement for optimized RSEQ V2 mode
  selftests/rseq: Validate legacy behavior
  selftests/rseq: Make registration flexible for legacy and optimized mode
  selftests/rseq: Skip tests if time slice extensions are not available
  rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
  rseq: Don't advertise time slice extensions if disabled
  rseq: Protect rseq_reset() against interrupts
  rseq: Set rseq::cpu_id_start to 0 on unregistration
  selftests/rseq: Don't run tests with runner scripts outside of the scripts
2026-05-08 19:42:10 -07:00
Tejun Heo
ca1d48a86f sched_ext: Use offsetofend on both sides of the ops_cid layout assert
sizeof() includes trailing struct pad, offsetofend() doesn't. On
32-bit PPC, sched_ext_ops_cid tail-pads 4 bytes past @priv and the
assert trips. Use offsetofend() on both sides.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202605081637.DbH4SZ1E-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: 7e655ed7b9 ("sched_ext: Add bpf_sched_ext_ops_cid struct_ops type")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-08 06:08:01 -10:00
Zqiang
ab28a0673d sched_ext: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to initialize sch->disable_irq_work
For built with PREEMPT_RT kernels, the scx_disable_irq_workfn() is
called from per-cpu irq_work kthreads context, this means that
when call the scx_dump_state() in the scx_disable_irq_workfn() to
output current->comm/pid, it always output current irq_work kthread's
comm/pid. this commit therefore use the IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to
initialize sch->disable_irq_work to make scx_disable_irq_workfn() is
called from hardirq context.

Fixes: f4a6c506d1 ("sched_ext: Always bounce scx_disable() through irq_work")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-08 05:11:53 -10:00
Tejun Heo
1f91d0d582 sched_ext: Fix !CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED build warnings
W=1 with CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED=n flags 'err_msg' uninitialized and
'err_free_lb_resched' unused. Initialize err_msg and gate the label.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-07 14:16:59 -10:00
Tejun Heo
363a53749c sched_ext: Drop unused scx_find_sub_sched() stub
scx_find_sub_sched()'s only caller, scx_bpf_sub_dispatch(), is gated on
CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED. When CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED=n the caller compiles out
and the stub becomes dead code, tripping -Wunused-function on randconfigs.
Drop the stub.

Fixes: 25037af712 ("sched_ext: Add rhashtable lookup for sub-schedulers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202605080556.42PXw8U9-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-07 12:09:21 -10:00
Tejun Heo
4616a9c36b sched_ext: Move scx_error() out of scx_link_sched()'s lock region
scx_link_sched() holds scx_sched_lock. The scx_error() calls inside take the
same lock through scx_claim_exit() and deadlock. Move them out of the guard.

Fixes: 6b4576b097 ("sched_ext: Reject sub-sched attachment to a disabled parent")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-05-07 11:05:50 -10:00
Vincent Guittot
9f6d929ee2 sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() for not waking up task
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
2026-05-06 17:41:18 +02:00
Zhan Xusheng
b6eee96843 sched/fair: Fix overflow in vruntime_eligible()
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
2026-05-06 17:41:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
de95ad90fb sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc2
- Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.
 
 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:
 
   - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept by
     global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task() state.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.

 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:

    - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept
      by global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task()
      state. Add a CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD flag to cgroup's task
      iterator (scx_task_iter is its only user) and use it.

    - Tasks past sched_ext_dead() are still returned, tripping
      WARN_ON_ONCE() in callers or making them touch torn-down state.
      Mark and skip under the per-task rq lock.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
  sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
  cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
2026-05-05 15:22:04 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
b9eac6a9d9 rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.

The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.

The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.

There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.

The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.

The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.

This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.

The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:

  1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
     conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
     the legacy mode out

  2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
     non-optimized v1 mode

  3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
     non-optimized v1 mode

  4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
     non-optimized v1 mode

  5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode

This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.

Fixes: 566d8015f7 ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-05-05 16:02:57 +02:00
Gabriele Monaco
4ac4d6549a sched: Use trace_call__<tp>() to save a static branch
The wrapper functions __trace_set_current_state() and
__trace_set_need_resched() allow the tracepoints to be called from code
outside sched/core.c, those calls are already guarded by a
tracepoint_enabled(<tp>) so there is no need to repeat this check once
again inside the call using trace_<tp>().

Use the new trace_call__<tp>() API to directly call the tracepoint
without check. Those helper functions must be called after the
appropriate check.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260429094227.34087-1-gmonaco@redhat.com
2026-05-05 12:50:50 +02:00
Aniket Gattani
a595972854 sched/membarrier: Modernize membarrier_global_expedited with cleanup guards
Replace explicit lock/unlock and free calls with scoped guards and
automatic cleanup constructs.

Signed-off-by: Aniket Gattani <aniketgattani@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503212205.3714217-3-aniketgattani@google.com
2026-05-05 12:50:48 +02:00
Aniket Gattani
89976cd737 sched/membarrier: Use per-CPU mutexes for targeted commands
Currently, the membarrier system call uses a single global mutex
(`membarrier_ipi_mutex`) to serialize expedited commands. This causes
significant contention on large systems when multiple threads invoke
membarrier concurrently, even if they target different CPUs.

This contention becomes critical when combined with CFS bandwidth
throttling/unthrottling, during which interrupts can be disabled for
relatively long periods on target CPUs. If membarrier is waiting for a
response from such a CPU, it holds the global mutex, blocking all other
membarrier calls on the system. This cascade effect can lead to hard
lockups when thousands of threads stall waiting for the mutex.

Optimize `MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ` when a specific CPU is
targeted by introducing per-CPU mutexes. Broadcast commands and commands
without a specific CPU target continue to use the global mutex.

This prevents the cascade lockup scenario. As measured by the stress test
introduced in the subsequent patch, on an AMD Turin machine with 384 CPUs
(2 NUMA nodes with SMT=2), this optimization yields 200x more
throughput.

Signed-off-by: Aniket Gattani <aniketgattani@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503212205.3714217-2-aniketgattani@google.com
2026-05-05 12:50:48 +02:00
Tejun Heo
d91b36de53 sched_ext: Add __printf format attributes to scx_vexit() and bstr formatters
scx_vexit() forwards (fmt, args) to vscnprintf(); bstr_format() and
__bstr_format() forward fmt to bstr_printf(); the BPF kfunc wrappers
scx_bpf_exit_bstr(), scx_bpf_error_bstr() and scx_bpf_dump_bstr() in
turn forward fmt to those formatters. None of them have __printf(),
so clang -Wmissing-format-attribute fires on the forwarded calls and
C-side callers don't get format-string checking.

Annotate the six functions with __printf(N, 0) matching the fmt
parameter position in each.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202605041112.Y6OG7v9r-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 11:21:56 -10:00
David Carlier
b34c82777a sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
scx_select_cpu_dfl() narrows @allowed to @cpus_allowed & @p->cpus_ptr
when the BPF caller supplies a @cpus_allowed that differs from
@p->cpus_ptr and @p doesn't have full affinity. However,
@is_prev_allowed was computed against the original (wider)
@cpus_allowed, so the prev_cpu fast paths could pick a @prev_cpu that
is in @cpus_allowed but not in @p->cpus_ptr, violating the intended
invariant that the returned CPU is always usable by @p. The kernel
masks this via the SCX_EV_SELECT_CPU_FALLBACK fallback, but the
behavior contradicts the documented contract.

Move the @is_prev_allowed evaluation past the narrowing block so it
tests against the final @allowed mask.

Fixes: ee9a4e9279 ("sched_ext: idle: Properly handle invalid prev_cpu during idle selection")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.16+
Assisted-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 11:01:04 -10:00
Cheng-Yang Chou
4c81b2b2a2 sched_ext: Normalize exit dump header to "on CPU N"
Unify to uppercase to match the UEI output.

Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 11:00:38 -10:00
Zqiang
d757ac2ee7 sched_ext: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in sysrq_handle_sched_ext_reset()
sysrq_handle_sched_ext_reset() is called from __handle_sysrq(), which
already holds rcu_read_lock() while invoking the sysrq handler. Remove
the redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() pair.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 11:00:31 -10:00
Tejun Heo
ff9eda4ea9 sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode can return tasks whose
sched_ext_dead() has already completed: cgroup_task_dead() removes
from cset->tasks after sched_ext_dead() in finish_task_switch() and is
irq-work deferred on PREEMPT_RT. The global mode is fine -
sched_ext_dead() removes from scx_tasks via list_del_init() first.

Callers (sub-sched enable prep/abort/apply, scx_sub_disable(),
scx_fail_parent()) assume returned tasks are still on @sch and trip
WARN_ON_ONCE() or operate on torn-down state otherwise.

Set %SCX_TASK_OFF_TASKS in sched_ext_dead() under @p's rq lock and
have scx_task_iter_next_locked() skip flagged tasks under the same
lock. Setter and reader serialize on the per-task rq lock - no race.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 09:06:03 -10:00
Tejun Heo
60f21a2649 cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
a72f73c4dd ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made
css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent
with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter.

scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via
css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of
tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks
past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks.

scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting
SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking
__scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap.

Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from
scx_task_iter().

Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter")
Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 09:06:03 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
c3cba36b39 Miscellaneous scheduler fixes:
- Fix the delayed dequeue negative lag increase fix in the
    fair scheduler (Peter Zijlstra)
 
  - Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() to do proper delayed dequeue
    (Vincent Guittot)
 
  - Clear sched_entity::rel_deadline when initializing
    forked entities, which bug can cause all tasks to be
    EEVDF-ineligible, causing a NULL pointer dereference
    crash in pick_next_entity() (Zicheng Qu)
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2026-05-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix the delayed dequeue negative lag increase fix in the
   fair scheduler (Peter Zijlstra)

 - Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() to do proper delayed dequeue
   (Vincent Guittot)

 - Clear sched_entity::rel_deadline when initializing
   forked entities, which bug can cause all tasks to be
   EEVDF-ineligible, causing a NULL pointer dereference
   crash in pick_next_entity() (Zicheng Qu)

* tag 'sched-urgent-2026-05-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Clear rel_deadline when initializing forked entities
  sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() vs delayed dequeue
  sched/fair: Fix the negative lag increase fix
2026-05-03 08:05:23 -07:00
Tejun Heo
97f86c38ab sched_ext: Require cid-form struct_ops for sub-sched support
Sub-scheduler support is tied to the cid-form struct_ops: sub_attach /
sub_detach will communicate allocation via cmask, and the hierarchy assumes
all participants share a single topological cid space. A cpu-form root that
accepts sub-scheds would need cpu <-> cid translation on every cross-sched
interaction, defeating the purpose.

Enforce this at validate_ops():
- A sub-scheduler (scx_parent(sch) non-NULL) must be cid-form.
- A root that exposes sub_attach / sub_detach must be cid-form.

scx_qmap, which is currently the only scheduler demoing sub-sched support,
was converted to cid-form in the preceding patch, so this doesn't cause
breakage.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
67edfa9eef sched_ext: Forbid cpu-form kfuncs from cid-form schedulers
cid and cpu are both small s32s, trivially confused when a cid-form
scheduler calls a cpu-keyed kfunc. Reject cid-form programs that
reference any kfunc in the new scx_kfunc_ids_cpu_only at verifier load
time.

The reverse direction is intentionally permissive: cpu-form schedulers
can freely call cid-form kfuncs to ease a gradual cpumask -> cid
migration.

The check sits in scx_kfunc_context_filter() right after the SCX
struct_ops gate and before the any/idle allow and per-op allow-list
checks, so it catches cpu-only kfuncs regardless of which set they
belong to (any, idle, or select_cpu).

v2: Sync per-entry kfunc flags with their primary declarations (Zhao).
    pahole intersects flags across BTF_ID_FLAGS() occurrences, so
    omitting them drops the flags globally.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
7e655ed7b9 sched_ext: Add bpf_sched_ext_ops_cid struct_ops type
cpumask is awkward from BPF and unusable from arena; cid/cmask work in
both. Sub-sched enqueue will need cmask. Without a full cid interface,
schedulers end up mixing forms - a subtle-bug factory.

Add sched_ext_ops_cid, which mirrors sched_ext_ops with cid/cmask
replacing cpu/cpumask in the topology-carrying callbacks.
cpu_acquire/cpu_release are deprecated and absent; a prior patch
moved them past @priv so the cid-form can omit them without
disturbing shared-field offsets.

The two structs share byte-identical layout up to @priv, so the
existing bpf_scx init/check hooks, has_op bitmap, and
scx_kf_allow_flags[] are offset-indexed and apply to both.
BUILD_BUG_ON in scx_init() pins the shared-field and renamed-callback
offsets so any future drift trips at boot.

The kernel<->BPF boundary translates between cpu and cid:

- A static key, enabled on cid-form sched load, gates the translation
  so cpu-form schedulers pay nothing.
- dispatch, update_idle, cpu_online/offline and dump_cpu translate
  the cpu arg at the callsite.
- select_cpu also translates the returned cid back to a cpu.
- set_cpumask is wrapped to synthesize a cmask in a per-cpu scratch
  before calling the cid-form callback.

All scheds in a hierarchy share one form. The static key drives the
hot-path branch.

v2: Use struct_size() for the set_cmask_scratch percpu alloc. Move
    cid-shard fields and assertions into the later cid-shard patch.

v3: Drop `static` on scx_set_cmask_scratch; add extern in ext_internal.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
5ba0a42423 sched_ext: Add cid-form kfunc wrappers alongside cpu-form
cpumask is awkward from BPF and unusable from arena; cid/cmask work in
both. Sub-sched enqueue will need cmask. Without full cid coverage a
scheduler has to mix cid and cpu forms, which is a subtle-bug factory.
Close the gap with a cid-native interface.

Pair every cpu-form kfunc that takes a cpu id with a cid-form
equivalent (kick, task placement, cpuperf query/set, per-cpu current
task, nr-cpu-ids). Add two cid-natives with no cpu-form sibling:
scx_bpf_this_cid() (cid of the running cpu, scx equivalent of
bpf_get_smp_processor_id) and scx_bpf_nr_online_cids().

scx_bpf_cpu_rq is deprecated; no cid-form counterpart. NUMA node info
is reachable via scx_bpf_cid_topo() on the BPF side.

Each cid-form wrapper is a thin cid -> cpu translation that delegates
to the cpu path, registered in the same context sets so usage
constraints match.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
a58e6b79b4 sched_ext: Add cmask, a base-windowed bitmap over cid space
Sub-scheduler code built on cids needs bitmaps scoped to a slice of cid
space (e.g. the idle cids of a shard). A cpumask sized for NR_CPUS wastes
most of its bits for a small window and is awkward in BPF.

scx_cmask covers [base, base + nr_bits). bits[] is aligned to the global
64-cid grid: bits[0] spans [base & ~63, (base & ~63) + 64). Any two
cmasks therefore address bits[] against the same global windows, so
cross-cmask word ops reduce to

	dest->bits[i] OP= operand->bits[i - delta]

with no bit-shifting, at the cost of up to one extra storage word for
head misalignment. This alignment guarantee is the reason binary ops
can stay word-level; every mutating helper preserves it.

Kernel side in ext_cid.[hc]; BPF side in tools/sched_ext/include/scx/
cid.bpf.h. BPF side drops the scx_ prefix (redundant in BPF code) and
adds the extra helpers that basic idle-cpu selection needs.

No callers yet.

v2: Narrow to helpers that will be used in the planned changes;
    set/bit/find/zero ops will be added as usage develops.

v3: cmask_copy_from_kernel: validate src->base == 0 via probe-read;
    bit-level nr_bits check instead of round-up word count. (Sashiko)

v4: Bump CMASK_CAS_TRIES to 1<<23 so abort fires only after seconds
    of real spinning, not on plausible contention. Switch
    __builtin_ctzll() to the ctzll() wrapper for clang compat
    (Changwoo).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
df7b5ae038 sched_ext: Add scx_bpf_cid_override() kfunc
The auto-probed cid mapping reflects the kernel's view of topology
(node -> LLC -> core), but a BPF scheduler may want a different layout -
to align cid slices with its own partitioning, or to work around how the
kernel reports a particular machine.

Add scx_bpf_cid_override(), callable from ops.init() of the root
scheduler. It validates the caller-supplied cpu->cid array and replaces
the in-place mapping; topo info is invalidated. A compat.bpf.h wrapper
silently no-ops on kernels that lack the kfunc.

A new SCX_KF_ALLOW_INIT bit in the kfunc context filter restricts the
kfunc to ops.init() at verifier load time.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
e9b55af47e sched_ext: Add topological CPU IDs (cids)
Raw cpu numbers are clumsy for sharding and cross-sched communication,
especially from BPF. The space is sparse, numerical closeness doesn't
track topological closeness (x86 hyperthreading often scatters SMT
siblings), and a range of cpu ids doesn't describe anything meaningful.
Sub-sched support makes this acute: cpu allocation, revocation, and
state constantly flow across sub-scheds. Passing whole cpumasks scales
poorly (every op scans 4K bits) and cpumasks are awkward in BPF.

cids assign every cpu a dense, topology-ordered id. CPUs sharing a core,
LLC, or NUMA node occupy contiguous cid ranges, so a topology unit
becomes a (start, length) slice. Communication passes slices; BPF can
process a u64 word of cids at a time.

Build the mapping once at root enable by walking online cpus node -> LLC
-> core. Possible-but-not-online cpus tail the space with no-topo cids.
Expose kfuncs to map cpu <-> cid in either direction and to query each
cid's topology metadata.

v2: Use kzalloc_objs()/kmalloc_objs() for the three allocs in
    scx_cid_arrays_alloc() (Cheng-Yang Chou).

v3: scx_cid_init() failure path now drops cpus_read_lock();
    BUILD_BUG_ON tightened to match BPF cmask helpers' NR_CPUS<=8192.
    (Sashiko)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
c97ce728bc sched_ext: Make scx_enable() take scx_enable_cmd
Pass struct scx_enable_cmd to scx_enable() rather than unpacking @ops
at every call site and re-packing into a fresh cmd inside. bpf_scx_reg()
now builds the cmd on its stack and hands it in; scx_enable() just
wires up the kthread work and waits.

Relocate struct scx_enable_cmd above scx_alloc_and_add_sched() so
upcoming patches that also want the cmd can see it.

No behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
1e315c44aa sched_ext: Relocate cpu_acquire/cpu_release to end of struct sched_ext_ops
cpu_acquire and cpu_release are deprecated and slated for removal. Move
their declarations to the end of struct sched_ext_ops so an upcoming
cid-form struct (sched_ext_ops_cid) can omit them entirely without
disturbing the offsets of the shared fields.

Switch the two SCX_HAS_OP() callers for these ops to direct field checks
since the relocated ops sit outside the SCX_OPI_END range covered by the
has_op bitmap.

scx_kf_allow_flags[] auto-sizes to the highest used SCX_OP_IDX, so
SCX_OP_IDX(cpu_release) moving to a higher index just enlarges the
sparse array; the lookup logic is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
017ec7d5fe sched_ext: Shift scx_kick_cpu() validity check to scx_bpf_kick_cpu()
Callers that already know the cpu is valid shouldn't have to pay for a
redundant check. scx_kick_cpu() is called from the in-kernel balance loop
break-out path with the current cpu (trivially valid) and from
scx_bpf_kick_cpu() with a BPF-supplied cpu that does need validation. Move
the check out of scx_kick_cpu() into scx_bpf_kick_cpu() so the backend is
reusable by callers that have already validated.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
7f19c089cc sched_ext: Move scx_exit(), scx_error() and friends to ext_internal.h
Things shared across multiple .c files belong in a header. scx_exit() /
scx_error() (and their scx_vexit() / scx_verror() siblings) are already
called from ext_idle.c and the upcoming ext_cid.c, and it was only
build_policy.c's textual inclusion of ext.c that made the references
resolve. Move the whole family to ext_internal.h.

Pure visibility change.

v4: Rebased over the exit_cpu plumbing. scx_exit() and scx_verror()
    are now macros wrapping raw_smp_processor_id(); move both macros
    plus the underlying __scx_exit() / scx_vexit() declarations to
    the header.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
93292808b2 sched_ext: Rename ops_cpu_valid() to scx_cpu_valid() and expose it
Rename the static ext.c helper and declare it in ext_internal.h so
ext_idle.c and the upcoming cid code can call it directly instead of
relying on build_policy.c textual inclusion.

Pure rename and visibility change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
0e781a7853 sched_ext: Add ext_types.h for early subsystem-wide defs
Introduce kernel/sched/ext_types.h as the early-def header for the
sched_ext compilation unit. Included from kernel/sched/build_policy.c
before ext_internal.h so every later header and source in the unit
sees its content without re-inclusion. Later patches add their types
here (struct scx_cid_topo, scx_cmask, scx_cid_shard, etc.) so the
subsystem has one place to stash types shared across the TU.

Move enum scx_consts (SCX_DSP_DFL_MAX_BATCH, SCX_WATCHDOG_MAX_TIMEOUT,
SCX_SUB_MAX_DEPTH, etc.) here as the initial content. Ops-facing
content stays in ext_internal.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-29 08:25:07 -10:00
Changwoo Min
78683079ca sched_ext: Dump the exit CPU first
When sched_ext is disabled by an error, the CPU that triggered the exit
is the most relevant piece of information for diagnosing the problem.
However, if there are many CPUs, the dump can get truncated and that
CPU's information may not appear in the output.

Add an exit_cpu field to scx_exit_info and thread it through scx_vexit()
/ __scx_exit(). For the watchdog stall path, populate it from cpu_of(rq)
in check_rq_for_timeouts(). For all other exit paths, define a scx_exit()
macro that wraps __scx_exit() with raw_smp_processor_id(), so the CPU
that initiated the exit is captured automatically, with no call-site
changes needed.

In scx_dump_state(), report the exit CPU in the dump header ("on cpu N")
and dump that CPU first, skipping it in the per-CPU loop, so the most
relevant CPU is never truncated out of the dump. The SysRq-D path
initializes exit_cpu to -1 so debug dumps not tied to an exit don't
arbitrarily promote CPU 0.

Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-28 22:44:23 -10:00
Changwoo Min
3f63ddda0b sched_ext: Extract scx_dump_cpu() from scx_dump_state()
Factor out the per-CPU state dump logic from the for_each_possible_cpu
loop in scx_dump_state() into a new scx_dump_cpu() helper to improve
readability. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-28 22:44:17 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
664f0f6be3 sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc1
The merge window pulled in the cgroup sub-scheduler infrastructure, and
 new AI reviews are accelerating bug reporting and fixing - hence the
 larger than usual fixes batch.
 
 - Use-after-frees during scheduler load/unload. The disable path
   could free the BPF scheduler while deferred irq_work / kthread work
   was still in flight; cgroup setter callbacks read the active
   scheduler outside the rwsem that synchronizes against teardown.
   Fixed both, and reused the disable drain in the enable error paths
   so the BPF JIT page can't be freed under live callbacks.
 
 - Several BPF op invocations didn't tell the framework which runqueue
   was already locked, so helper kfuncs that re-acquire the runqueue
   by CPU could deadlock on the held lock. Fixed at the affected
   callsites, including recursive parent-into-child dispatch.
 
 - The hardlockup notifier ran from NMI but eventually took a
   non-NMI-safe lock. Bounced through irq_work.
 
 - A handful of bugs in the new sub-scheduler hierarchy: helper
   kfuncs hard-coded the root instead of resolving the caller's
   scheduler; the enable error path tried to disable per-task state
   that had never been initialized, and leaked cpus_read_lock on the
   way out; a sysfs object was leaked on every load/unload; the
   dispatch fast-path used the root scheduler instead of the task's;
   and a couple of CONFIG #ifdef guards were misclassified.
 
 - Verifier-time hardening: BPF programs of unrelated struct_ops
   types (e.g. tcp_congestion_ops) could call sched_ext kfuncs - a
   semantic bug and, once sub-sched was enabled, a KASAN
   out-of-bounds read. Now rejected at load. Plus a few NULL and
   cross-task argument checks on sched_ext kfuncs, and a selftest
   covering the new deny.
 
 - rhashtable (Herbert): restored the insecure_elasticity toggle and
   bounced the deferred-resize kick through irq_work to break a
   lock-order cycle observable from raw-spinlock callers. sched_ext's
   scheduler-instance hash is the first user of both.
 
 - The bypass-mode load balancer used file-scope cpumasks; with
   multiple scheduler instances now possible, those raced. Moved
   per-instance, plus a follow-up to skip tasks whose recorded CPU is
   stale relative to the new owning runqueue.
 
 - Smaller fixes: a dispatch queue's first-task tracking misbehaved
   when a parked iterator cursor sat in the list; the runqueue's
   next-class wasn't promoted on local-queue enqueue, leaving an SCX
   task behind RT in edge cases; the reference qmap scheduler stopped
   erroring on legitimate cross-scheduler task-storage misses.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "The merge window pulled in the cgroup sub-scheduler infrastructure,
  and new AI reviews are accelerating bug reporting and fixing - hence
  the larger than usual fixes batch:

   - Use-after-frees during scheduler load/unload:
       - The disable path could free the BPF scheduler while deferred
         irq_work / kthread work was still in flight
       - cgroup setter callbacks read the active scheduler outside the
         rwsem that synchronizes against teardown
     Fix both, and reuse the disable drain in the enable error paths so
     the BPF JIT page can't be freed under live callbacks.

   - Several BPF op invocations didn't tell the framework which runqueue
     was already locked, so helper kfuncs that re-acquire the runqueue
     by CPU could deadlock on the held lock

     Fix the affected callsites, including recursive parent-into-child
     dispatch.

   - The hardlockup notifier ran from NMI but eventually took a
     non-NMI-safe lock. Bounce it through irq_work.

   - A handful of bugs in the new sub-scheduler hierarchy:
       - helper kfuncs hard-coded the root instead of resolving the
         caller's scheduler
       - the enable error path tried to disable per-task state that had
         never been initialized, and leaked cpus_read_lock on the way
         out
       - a sysfs object was leaked on every load/unload
       - the dispatch fast-path used the root scheduler instead of the
         task's
       - a couple of CONFIG #ifdef guards were misclassified

   - Verifier-time hardening: BPF programs of unrelated struct_ops types
     (e.g. tcp_congestion_ops) could call sched_ext kfuncs - a semantic
     bug and, once sub-sched was enabled, a KASAN out-of-bounds read.
     Now rejected at load. Plus a few NULL and cross-task argument
     checks on sched_ext kfuncs, and a selftest covering the new deny.

   - rhashtable (Herbert): restore the insecure_elasticity toggle and
     bounce the deferred-resize kick through irq_work to break a
     lock-order cycle observable from raw-spinlock callers. sched_ext's
     scheduler-instance hash is the first user of both.

   - The bypass-mode load balancer used file-scope cpumasks; with
     multiple scheduler instances now possible, those raced. Move to
     per-instance cpumasks, plus a follow-up to skip tasks whose
     recorded CPU is stale relative to the new owning runqueue.

   - Smaller fixes:
       - a dispatch queue's first-task tracking misbehaved when a parked
         iterator cursor sat in the list
       - the runqueue's next-class wasn't promoted on local-queue
         enqueue, leaving an SCX task behind RT in edge cases
       - the reference qmap scheduler stopped erroring on legitimate
         cross-scheduler task-storage misses"

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (26 commits)
  sched_ext: Fix scx_flush_disable_work() UAF race
  sched_ext: Call wakeup_preempt() in local_dsq_post_enq()
  sched_ext: Release cpus_read_lock on scx_link_sched() failure in root enable
  sched_ext: Reject NULL-sch callers in scx_bpf_task_set_slice/dsq_vtime
  sched_ext: Refuse cross-task select_cpu_from_kfunc calls
  sched_ext: Align cgroup #ifdef guards with SUB_SCHED vs GROUP_SCHED
  sched_ext: Make bypass LB cpumasks per-scheduler
  sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for core_sched_before
  sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for dump_cpu/dump_task
  sched_ext: Save and restore scx_locked_rq across SCX_CALL_OP
  sched_ext: Use dsq->first_task instead of list_empty() in dispatch_enqueue() FIFO-tail
  sched_ext: Resolve caller's scheduler in scx_bpf_destroy_dsq() / scx_bpf_dsq_nr_queued()
  sched_ext: Read scx_root under scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem in cgroup setters
  sched_ext: Don't disable tasks in scx_sub_enable_workfn() abort path
  sched_ext: Skip tasks with stale task_rq in bypass_lb_cpu()
  sched_ext: Guard scx_dsq_move() against NULL kit->dsq after failed iter_new
  sched_ext: Unregister sub_kset on scheduler disable
  sched_ext: Defer scx_hardlockup() out of NMI
  sched_ext: sync disable_irq_work in bpf_scx_unreg()
  sched_ext: Fix local_dsq_post_enq() to use task's scheduler in sub-sched
  ...
2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00
Cheng-Yang Chou
d99f7a32f0 sched_ext: Fix scx_flush_disable_work() UAF race
scx_flush_disable_work() calls irq_work_sync() followed by
kthread_flush_work() to ensure that the disable kthread work has
fully completed before bpf_scx_unreg() frees the SCX scheduler.

However, a concurrent scx_vexit() (e.g., triggered by a watchdog stall)
creates a race window between scx_claim_exit() and irq_work_queue():

  CPU A (scx_vexit (watchdog))        CPU B (bpf_scx_unreg)
  ----                                ----
  scx_claim_exit()
    atomic_try_cmpxchg(NONE->kind)
  stack_trace_save()
  vscnprintf()
                                      scx_disable()
                                        scx_claim_exit() -> FAIL
                                      scx_flush_disable_work()
                                        irq_work_sync()      // no-op: not queued yet
                                        kthread_flush_work() // no-op: not queued yet
                                      kobject_put(&sch->kobj) -> free %sch
  irq_work_queue() -> UAF on %sch
  scx_disable_irq_workfn()
    kthread_queue_work() -> UAF

The root cause is that CPU B's scx_flush_disable_work() returns after
syncing an irq_work that has not yet been queued, while CPU A is still
executing the code between scx_claim_exit() and irq_work_queue().

Loop until exit_kind reaches SCX_EXIT_DONE or SCX_EXIT_NONE, draining
disable_irq_work and disable_work in each pass. This ensures that any
work queued after the previous check is caught, while also correctly
handling cases where no disable was triggered (e.g., the
scx_sub_enable_workfn() abort path).

Fixes: 510a270554 ("sched_ext: sync disable_irq_work in bpf_scx_unreg()")
Reported-by: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260424100221.32407-1-icheng%40nvidia.com
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-28 07:40:03 -10:00
Tejun Heo
4939721aad sched_ext: Collect ext_*.c include headers in build_policy.c
Move <linux/btf_ids.h> from ext.c and "ext_idle.h" from ext.c (plus its
self-include in ext_idle.c) into build_policy.c. Subsequent patches add
their headers the same way for consistency.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-28 06:44:09 -10:00
Kuba Piecuch
163f8b7f9a sched_ext: Call wakeup_preempt() in local_dsq_post_enq()
There are several edge cases (see linked thread) where an IMMED task
can be left lingering on a local DSQ if an RT task swoops in at the
wrong time. All of these edge cases are due to rq->next_class being idle
even after dispatching a task to rq's local DSQ. We should bump
rq->next_class to &ext_sched_class as soon as we've inserted a task into
the local DSQ.

To optimize the common case of rq->next_class == &ext_sched_class,
only call wakeup_preempt() if rq->next_class is below EXT. If next_class
is EXT or above, wakeup_preempt() is a no-op anyway.

This lets us also simplify the preempt_curr() logic a bit since
wakeup_preempt() will call preempt_curr() for us if next_class is
below EXT.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/DHZPHUFXB4N3.2RY28MUEWBNYK@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Kuba Piecuch <jpiecuch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-28 06:28:48 -10:00
Zicheng Qu
3da56dc063 sched/fair: Clear rel_deadline when initializing forked entities
A yield-triggered crash can happen when a newly forked sched_entity
enters the fair class with se->rel_deadline unexpectedly set.

The failing sequence is:

  1. A task is forked while se->rel_deadline is still set.
  2. __sched_fork() initializes vruntime, vlag and other sched_entity
     state, but does not clear rel_deadline.
  3. On the first enqueue, enqueue_entity() calls place_entity().
  4. Because se->rel_deadline is set, place_entity() treats se->deadline
     as a relative deadline and converts it to an absolute deadline by
     adding the current vruntime.
  5. However, the forked entity's deadline is not a valid inherited
     relative deadline for this new scheduling instance, so the conversion
     produces an abnormally large deadline.
  6. If the task later calls sched_yield(), yield_task_fair() advances
     se->vruntime to se->deadline.
  7. The inflated vruntime is then used by the following enqueue path,
     where the vruntime-derived key can overflow when multiplied by the
     entity weight.
  8. This corrupts cfs_rq->sum_w_vruntime, breaks EEVDF eligibility
     calculation, and can eventually make all entities appear ineligible.
     pick_next_entity() may then return NULL unexpectedly, leading to a
     later NULL dereference.

A captured trace shows the effect clearly. Before yield, the entity's
vruntime was around:

  9834017729983308

After yield_task_fair() executed:

  se->vruntime = se->deadline

the vruntime jumped to:

  19668035460670230

and the deadline was later advanced further to:

  19668035463470230

This shows that the deadline had already become abnormally large before
yield_task_fair() copied it into vruntime.

rel_deadline is only meaningful when se->deadline really carries a
relative deadline that still needs to be placed against vruntime. A
freshly forked sched_entity should not inherit or retain this state.
Clear se->rel_deadline in __sched_fork(), together with the other
sched_entity runtime state, so that the first enqueue does not interpret
the new entity's deadline as a stale relative deadline.

Fixes: 82e9d0456e ("sched/fair: Avoid re-setting virtual deadline on 'migrations'")
Analyzed-by: Hui Tang <tanghui20@huawei.com>
Analyzed-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424071113.1199600-1-quzicheng@huawei.com
2026-04-28 09:19:54 +02:00
Vincent Guittot
ac8e69e693 sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() vs delayed dequeue
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
2026-04-28 09:19:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c5cd6fd75b sched/fair: Fix the negative lag increase fix
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
2026-04-28 09:19:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo
dfe454e37b Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Pull to receive:

 c0e8ddc76d ("sched_ext: Align cgroup #ifdef guards with SUB_SCHED vs GROUP_SCHED")

which conflicts with:

 41e3312861 ("sched_ext: add p->scx.tid and SCX_OPS_TID_TO_TASK lookup")

It's a simple context conflict. Take changes from both.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-24 14:37:32 -10:00
Tejun Heo
deb7b2f93d sched_ext: Release cpus_read_lock on scx_link_sched() failure in root enable
scx_root_enable_workfn() takes cpus_read_lock() before
scx_link_sched(sch), but the `if (ret) goto err_disable` on failure
skips the matching cpus_read_unlock() - all other err_disable gotos
along this path drop the lock first.

scx_link_sched() only returns non-zero on the sub-sched path
(parent != NULL), so the leak path is unreachable via the root
caller today. Still, the unwind is out of line with the surrounding
paths.

Drop cpus_read_lock() before goto err_disable.

v2: Correct Fixes: tag (Andrea Righi).

Fixes: 25037af712 ("sched_ext: Add rhashtable lookup for sub-schedulers")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
05b4a9a9bc sched_ext: Reject NULL-sch callers in scx_bpf_task_set_slice/dsq_vtime
scx_prog_sched(aux) returns NULL for TRACING / SYSCALL BPF progs that
have no struct_ops association when the root scheduler has sub_attach
set. scx_bpf_task_set_slice() and scx_bpf_task_set_dsq_vtime() pass
that NULL into scx_task_on_sched(sch, p), which under
CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED is rcu_access_pointer(p->scx.sched) == sch. For
any non-scx task p->scx.sched is NULL, so NULL == NULL returns true
and the authority gate is bypassed - a privileged but
non-struct_ops-associated prog can poke p->scx.slice /
p->scx.dsq_vtime on arbitrary tasks.

Reject !sch up front so the gate only admits callers with a resolved
scheduler.

Fixes: 245d09c594 ("sched_ext: Enforce scheduler ownership when updating slice and dsq_vtime")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
ea7c716a24 sched_ext: Refuse cross-task select_cpu_from_kfunc calls
select_cpu_from_kfunc() skipped pi_lock for @p when called from
ops.select_cpu() or another rq-locked SCX op, assuming the held lock
protects @p. scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() / __scx_bpf_select_cpu_and() accept an
arbitrary KF_RCU task_struct, so a caller in e.g. ops.select_cpu(p1) or
ops.enqueue(p1) can pass some other p2 - the held pi_lock / rq lock is p1's,
not p2's - and reading p2->cpus_ptr / nr_cpus_allowed races with
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() and migrate_disable_switch() on another CPU.

Abort the scheduler on cross-task calls in both branches: for
ops.select_cpu() use scx_kf_arg_task_ok() to verify @p is the wake-up
task recorded in current->scx.kf_tasks[] by SCX_CALL_OP_TASK_RET();
for other rq-locked SCX ops compare task_rq(p) against scx_locked_rq().

v2: Switch the in_select_cpu cross-task check from direct_dispatch_task
    comparison to scx_kf_arg_task_ok(). The former spuriously rejects when
    ops.select_cpu() calls scx_bpf_dsq_insert() first, then calls
    scx_bpf_select_cpu_*() on the same task. (Andrea Righi)

Fixes: 0022b32850 ("sched_ext: Decouple kfunc unlocked-context check from kf_mask")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
c0e8ddc76d sched_ext: Align cgroup #ifdef guards with SUB_SCHED vs GROUP_SCHED
Two EXT_GROUP_SCHED/SUB_SCHED guards are misclassified:

- scx_root_enable_workfn()'s cgroup_get(cgrp) and the err_put_cgrp unwind
  in scx_alloc_and_add_sched() are under `#if GROUP || SUB`, but the
  matching cgroup_put() in scx_sched_free_rcu_work() is inside `#ifdef SUB`
  only (via sch->cgrp, stored only under SUB). GROUP-only would leak a
  reference on every root-sched enable.

- sch_cgroup() / set_cgroup_sched() live under `#if GROUP || SUB` but touch
  SUB-only fields (sch->cgrp, cgroup->scx_sched). GROUP-only wouldn't
  compile.

GROUP needs CGROUP_SCHED; SUB needs only CGROUPS. CGROUPS=y/CGROUP_SCHED=n
gives the reachable GROUP=n, SUB=y combination; GROUP=y, SUB=n isn't
reachable today (SUB is def_bool y under CGROUPS). Neither miscategorization
triggers a real bug in any reachable config, but keep the guards honest:

- Narrow cgroup_get and err_put_cgrp to `#ifdef SUB` (matches the free-side
  put).
- Move sch_cgroup() and set_cgroup_sched() to a separate `#ifdef SUB` block
  with no-op stubs for the !SUB case; keep root_cgroup() and scx_cgroup_{
  lock,unlock}() under `#if GROUP || SUB` since those only need cgroup core.

Fixes: ebeca1f930 ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
d292aa00de sched_ext: Make bypass LB cpumasks per-scheduler
scx_bypass_lb_{donee,resched}_cpumask were file-scope statics shared by all
scheduler instances. With CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED, multiple sched instances
each arm their own bypass_lb_timer; concurrent bypass_lb_node() calls RMW
the global cpumasks with no lock, corrupting donee/resched decisions.

Move the cpumasks into struct scx_sched, allocate them alongside the timer
in scx_alloc_and_add_sched(), free them in scx_sched_free_rcu_work().

Fixes: 95d1df610c ("sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
4155fb489f sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for core_sched_before
scx_prio_less() runs from core-sched's pick_next_task() path with rq
locked but invokes ops.core_sched_before() with NULL locked_rq, leaving
scx_locked_rq_state NULL. If the BPF callback calls a kfunc that
re-acquires rq based on scx_locked_rq() - e.g. scx_bpf_cpuperf_set(cpu)
- it re-acquires the already-held rq.

Pass task_rq(a).

Fixes: 7b0888b7cc ("sched_ext: Implement core-sched support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
207d76a372 sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for dump_cpu/dump_task
scx_dump_state() walks CPUs with rq_lock_irqsave() held and invokes
ops.dump_cpu / ops.dump_task with NULL locked_rq, leaving
scx_locked_rq_state NULL. If the BPF callback calls a kfunc that
re-acquires rq based on scx_locked_rq() - e.g. scx_bpf_cpuperf_set(cpu)
- it re-acquires the already-held rq.

Pass the held rq to SCX_CALL_OP(). Thread it into scx_dump_task() too.
The pre-loop ops.dump call runs before rq_lock_irqsave() so keeps
rq=NULL.

Fixes: 07814a9439 ("sched_ext: Print debug dump after an error exit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
7fb39e4eb4 sched_ext: Save and restore scx_locked_rq across SCX_CALL_OP
SCX_CALL_OP{,_RET}() unconditionally clears scx_locked_rq_state to NULL on
exit. Correct at the top level, but ops can recurse via
scx_bpf_sub_dispatch(): a parent's ops.dispatch calls the helper, which
invokes the child's ops.dispatch under another SCX_CALL_OP. When the inner
call returns, the NULL clobbers the outer's state. The parent's BPF then
calls kfuncs like scx_bpf_cpuperf_set() which read scx_locked_rq()==NULL and
re-acquire the already-held rq.

Snapshot scx_locked_rq_state on entry and restore on exit. Rename the rq
parameter to locked_rq across all SCX_CALL_OP* macros so the snapshot local
can be typed as 'struct rq *' without colliding with the parameter token in
the expansion. SCX_CALL_OP_TASK{,_RET}() and SCX_CALL_OP_2TASKS_RET() funnel
through the two base macros and inherit the fix.

Fixes: 4f8b122848 ("sched_ext: Add basic building blocks for nested sub-scheduler dispatching")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:36 -10:00
Tejun Heo
2f2ea77092 sched_ext: Use dsq->first_task instead of list_empty() in dispatch_enqueue() FIFO-tail
dispatch_enqueue()'s FIFO-tail path used list_empty(&dsq->list) to decide
whether to set dsq->first_task on enqueue. dsq->list can contain parked BPF
iterator cursors (SCX_DSQ_LNODE_ITER_CURSOR), so list_empty() is not a
reliable "no real task" check. If the last real task is unlinked while a
cursor is parked, first_task becomes NULL; the next FIFO-tail enqueue then
sees list_empty() == false and skips the first_task update, leaving
scx_bpf_dsq_peek() returning NULL for a non-empty DSQ.

Test dsq->first_task directly, which already tracks only real tasks and is
maintained under dsq->lock.

Fixes: 44f5c8ec5b ("sched_ext: Add lockless peek operation for DSQs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ryan Newton <newton@meta.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
cc2a387d33 sched_ext: Resolve caller's scheduler in scx_bpf_destroy_dsq() / scx_bpf_dsq_nr_queued()
scx_bpf_create_dsq() resolves the calling scheduler via scx_prog_sched(aux)
and inserts the new DSQ into that scheduler's dsq_hash. Its inverse
scx_bpf_destroy_dsq() and the query helper scx_bpf_dsq_nr_queued() were
hard-coded to rcu_dereference(scx_root), so a sub-scheduler could only
destroy or query DSQs in the root scheduler's hash - never its own. If the
root had a DSQ with the same id, the sub-sched silently destroyed it and the
root aborted on the next dispatch ("invalid DSQ ID 0x0..").

Take a const struct bpf_prog_aux *aux via KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS and resolve the
scheduler with scx_prog_sched(aux), matching scx_bpf_create_dsq().

Fixes: ebeca1f930 ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
80afd4c84b sched_ext: Read scx_root under scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem in cgroup setters
scx_group_set_{weight,idle,bandwidth}() cache scx_root before acquiring
scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem, so the pointer can be stale by the time the op runs.
If the loaded scheduler is disabled and freed (via RCU work) and another is
enabled between the naked load and the rwsem acquire, the reader sees
scx_cgroup_enabled=true (the new scheduler's) but dereferences the freed one
- UAF on SCX_HAS_OP(sch, ...) / SCX_CALL_OP(sch, ...).

scx_cgroup_enabled is toggled only under scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem write
(scx_cgroup_{init,exit}), so reading scx_root inside the rwsem read section
correlates @sch with the enabled snapshot.

Fixes: a5bd6ba30b ("sched_ext: Use cgroup_lock/unlock() to synchronize against cgroup operations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
21a5a97ba4 sched_ext: Don't disable tasks in scx_sub_enable_workfn() abort path
scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s prep loop calls __scx_init_task(sch, p, false)
without transitioning task state, then sets SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT. If prep fails
partway, the abort path runs __scx_disable_and_exit_task(sch, p) on the
marked tasks. Task state is still the parent's ENABLED, so that dispatches
to the SCX_TASK_ENABLED arm and calls scx_disable_task(sch, p) - i.e.
child->ops.disable() - for tasks on which child->ops.enable() never ran. A
BPF sub-scheduler allocating per-task state in enable/freeing in disable
would operate on uninitialized state.

The dying-task branch in scx_disable_and_exit_task() has the same problem,
and scx_enabling_sub_sched was cleared before the abort cleanup loop - a
task exiting during cleanup tripped the WARN and skipped both ops.exit_task
and the SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT clear, leaking per-task resources and leaving the
task stuck.

Introduce scx_sub_init_cancel_task() that calls ops.exit_task with
cancelled=true - matching what the top-level init path does when init_task
itself returns -errno. Use it in the abort loop and in the dying-task
branch. scx_enabling_sub_sched now stays set until the abort loop finishes
clearing SUB_INIT, so concurrent exits hitting the dying-task branch can
still find @sch. That branch also clears SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT unconditionally
when seen, leaving the task unmarked even if the WARN fires.

Fixes: 337ec00b1d ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup sub-sched enabling and disabling")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
da2d81b411 sched_ext: Skip tasks with stale task_rq in bypass_lb_cpu()
bypass_lb_cpu() transfers tasks between per-CPU bypass DSQs without
migrating them - task_cpu() only updates when the donee later consumes the
task via move_remote_task_to_local_dsq(). If the LB timer fires again before
consumption and the new DSQ becomes a donor, @p is still on the previous CPU
and task_rq(@p) != donor_rq. @p can't be moved without its own rq locked.

Skip such tasks.

Fixes: 95d1df610c ("sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
4fda9f0e7c sched_ext: Guard scx_dsq_move() against NULL kit->dsq after failed iter_new
bpf_iter_scx_dsq_new() clears kit->dsq on failure and
bpf_iter_scx_dsq_{next,destroy}() guard against that. scx_dsq_move() doesn't -
it dereferences kit->dsq immediately, so a BPF program that calls
scx_bpf_dsq_move[_vtime]() after a failed iter_new oopses the kernel.

Return false if kit->dsq is NULL.

Fixes: 4c30f5ce4f ("sched_ext: Implement scx_bpf_dispatch[_vtime]_from_dsq()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
411d3ef1a7 sched_ext: Unregister sub_kset on scheduler disable
When ops.sub_attach is set, scx_alloc_and_add_sched() creates sub_kset as a
child of &sch->kobj, which pins the parent with its own reference. The
disable paths never call kset_unregister(), so the final kobject_put() in
bpf_scx_unreg() leaves a stale reference and scx_kobj_release() never runs,
leaking the whole struct scx_sched on every load/unload cycle.

Unregister sub_kset in scx_root_disable() and scx_sub_disable() before
kobject_del(&sch->kobj).

Fixes: ebeca1f930 ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:31:35 -10:00
Tejun Heo
bd2d76455b sched_ext: Defer scx_hardlockup() out of NMI
scx_hardlockup() runs from NMI and eventually calls scx_claim_exit(),
which takes scx_sched_lock. scx_sched_lock isn't NMI-safe and grabbing
it from NMI context can lead to deadlocks.

The hardlockup handler is best-effort recovery and the disable path it
triggers runs off of irq_work anyway. Move the handle_lockup() call into
an irq_work so it runs in IRQ context.

Fixes: ebeca1f930 ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-24 14:13:22 -10:00
Richard Cheng
510a270554 sched_ext: sync disable_irq_work in bpf_scx_unreg()
When unregistered my self-written scx scheduler, the following panic
occurs.

[  229.923133] Kernel text patching generated an invalid instruction at 0xffff80009bc2c1f8!
[  229.923146] Internal error: Oops - BRK: 00000000f2000100 [#1]  SMP
[  230.077871] CPU: 48 UID: 0 PID: 1760 Comm: kworker/u583:7 Not tainted 7.0.0+ #3 PREEMPT(full)
[  230.086677] Hardware name: NVIDIA GB200 NVL/P3809-BMC, BIOS 02.05.12 20251107
[  230.093972] Workqueue: events_unbound bpf_map_free_deferred
[  230.099675] Sched_ext: invariant_0.1.0_aarch64_unknown_linux_gnu_debug (disabling), task: runnable_at=-174ms
[  230.116843] pc : 0xffff80009bc2c1f8
[  230.120406] lr : dequeue_task_scx+0x270/0x2d0
[  230.217749] Call trace:
[  230.228515]  0xffff80009bc2c1f8 (P)
[  230.232077]  dequeue_task+0x84/0x188
[  230.235728]  sched_change_begin+0x1dc/0x250
[  230.240000]  __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked+0x17c/0x240
[  230.245250]  __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x74/0xf0
[  230.249701]  ___migrate_enable+0x4c/0xa0
[  230.253707]  bpf_map_free_deferred+0x1a4/0x1b0
[  230.258246]  process_one_work+0x184/0x540
[  230.262342]  worker_thread+0x19c/0x348
[  230.266170]  kthread+0x13c/0x150
[  230.269465]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[  230.281393] Code: d4202000 d4202000 d4202000 d4202000 (d4202000)
[  230.287621] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[  231.160046] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BRK: Fatal exception in interrupt

The root cause is that the JIT page backing ops->quiescent() is freed
before all callers of that function have stopped.

The expected ordering during teardown is:
    bitmap_zero(sch->has_op) + synchronize_rcu()
        -> guarantees no CPU will ever call sch->ops.* again
    -> only THEN free the BPF struct_ops JIT page

bpf_scx_unreg() is supposed to enforce the order, but after
commit f4a6c506d1 ("sched_ext: Always bounce scx_disable() through
irq_work"), disable_work is no longer queued directly, causing
kthread_flush_work() to be a noop. Thus, the caller drops the struct_ops
map too early and poisoned with AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT before
disable_workfn ever execute.

So the subsequent dequeue_task() still sees SCX_HAS_OP(sch, quiescent)
as true and calls ops.quiescent, which hit on the poisoned page and BRK
panic.

Add a helper scx_flush_disable_work() so the future use cases that want
to flush disable_work can use it.
Also amend the call for scx_root_enable_workfn() and
scx_sub_enable_workfn() which have similar pattern in the error path.

Fixes: f4a6c506d1 ("sched_ext: Always bounce scx_disable() through irq_work")
Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-24 07:26:48 -10:00
Tejun Heo
c2929bc21d Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-23 06:37:59 -10:00
zhidao su
4e3d7c89e1 sched_ext: Fix local_dsq_post_enq() to use task's scheduler in sub-sched
local_dsq_post_enq() calls call_task_dequeue() with scx_root instead of
the scheduler instance actually managing the task. When
CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED is enabled, tasks may be managed by a sub-scheduler
whose ops.dequeue() callback differs from root's. Using scx_root causes
the wrong scheduler's ops.dequeue() to be consulted: sub-sched tasks
dispatched to a local DSQ via scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local() will have
SCX_TASK_IN_CUSTODY cleared but the sub-scheduler's ops.dequeue() is
never invoked, violating the custody exit semantics.

Fix by adding a 'struct scx_sched *sch' parameter to local_dsq_post_enq()
and move_local_task_to_local_dsq(), and propagating the correct scheduler
from their callers dispatch_enqueue(), move_task_between_dsqs(), and
consume_dispatch_q().

This is consistent with dispatch_enqueue()'s non-local path which already
passes 'sch' directly to call_task_dequeue() for global/bypass DSQs.

Fixes: ebf1ccff79 ("sched_ext: Fix ops.dequeue() semantics")
Signed-off-by: zhidao su <suzhidao@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-23 06:36:56 -10:00
Tejun Heo
463a4436d6 Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Pull to receive:

 2d2b026c3e ("sched_ext: Deny SCX kfuncs to non-SCX struct_ops programs")

which modifies scx_kfunc_context_filter() to avoid conflicts with planned
changes in for-7.2.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-20 09:33:34 -10:00
Cheng-Yang Chou
2d2b026c3e sched_ext: Deny SCX kfuncs to non-SCX struct_ops programs
scx_kfunc_context_filter() currently allows non-SCX struct_ops programs
(e.g. tcp_congestion_ops) to call SCX unlocked kfuncs. This is wrong
for two reasons:

- It is semantically incorrect: a TCP congestion control program has no
  business calling SCX kfuncs such as scx_bpf_kick_cpu().

- With CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED=y, kfuncs like scx_bpf_kick_cpu() call
  scx_prog_sched(aux), which invokes bpf_prog_get_assoc_struct_ops(aux)
  and casts the result to struct sched_ext_ops * before reading ops->priv.
  For a non-SCX struct_ops program the returned pointer is the kdata of
  that struct_ops type, which is far smaller than sched_ext_ops, making
  the read an out-of-bounds access (confirmed with KASAN).

Extend the filter to cover scx_kfunc_set_any and scx_kfunc_set_idle as
well, and deny all SCX kfuncs for any struct_ops program that is not the
SCX struct_ops. This addresses both issues: the semantic contract is
enforced at the verifier level, and the runtime out-of-bounds access
becomes unreachable.

Fixes: d1d3c1c6ae ("sched_ext: Add verifier-time kfunc context filter")
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-20 07:57:29 -10:00
Tejun Heo
41e3312861 sched_ext: add p->scx.tid and SCX_OPS_TID_TO_TASK lookup
BPF schedulers that can't hold task_struct pointers (arena-backed ones in
particular) key tasks by pid. During exit, pid is released before the
task finishes passing through scheduler callbacks, so a dying task
becomes invisible to the BPF side mid-schedule. scx_qmap hits this: an
exiting task's dispatch callback can't recover its queue entry, stalling
dispatch until SCX_EXIT_ERROR_STALL.

Add a unique non-zero u64 p->scx.tid assigned at fork that survives the
full task lifetime including exit. scx_bpf_tid_to_task() looks up the
task; unlike bpf_task_from_pid(), it handles exiting tasks.

The lookup costs an rhashtable insert/remove under scx_tasks_lock, so
root schedulers opt in via SCX_OPS_TID_TO_TASK. Sub-schedulers that set
the flag to declare a dependency are rejected at attach if root didn't
opt in.

scx_qmap converted: keys tasks by tid and enables SCX_OPS_ENQ_EXITING.
Pre-patch it stalls within seconds under a non-leader-exec workload;
with the patch it runs cleanly.

v3: Warn on rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast() failure via new
    scx_tid_hash_insert() helper (Cheng-Yang Chou).

v2: Guard scx_root deref in scx_bpf_tid_to_task() error path. The kfunc
    is registered via scx_kfunc_set_any and reachable from tracing and
    syscall programs when no scheduler is attached (Cheng-Yang Chou).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-20 06:55:33 -10:00
Tejun Heo
ed859d4319 Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2
Pull to receive 73bd122778 ("rhashtable: Restore insecure_elasticity
toggle") as a dependency for upcoming patches that use
.insecure_elasticity = true on their rhashtables.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-20 06:55:07 -10:00
Tejun Heo
87019cb6c2 sched_ext: Mark scx_sched_hash insecure_elasticity
scx_sched_hash is inserted into under scx_sched_lock (raw_spinlock_irq)
in scx_link_sched(). rhashtable's sync grow path calls get_random_u32()
and does a GFP_ATOMIC allocation; both acquire regular spinlocks, which
is unsafe under raw_spinlock_t. Set insecure_elasticity to skip the
sync grow.

v2:
- Dropped dsq_hash changes. Insertion is not under raw_spin_lock.

- Switched from no_sync_grow flag to insecure_elasticity.

Fixes: 25037af712 ("sched_ext: Add rhashtable lookup for sub-schedulers")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-19 05:47:28 -10:00
Zhao Mengmeng
5425abc222 sched_ext: Print sub-scheduler disabled log and reason
Take scx_qmap for example, when sub scheduler is attached, there is
'BPF sub-scheduler "qmap" enabled' message, but when detached, the log
is missing. Add a new function to do the log thing, it can be used by
both root scheduler and sub scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-17 08:32:10 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
cb30bf881c tracing updates for v7.1:
- Fix printf format warning for bprintf
 
   sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during the
   compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging is not
   enabled the warning will go away.
 
 - Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in event_filter_write()
 
   The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then
   checked again right afterward, which is unneeded.
 
 - Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers
 
   These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now with
   eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit and also
   add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data is not present.
 
 - Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open
 
   All access to the file private data is handled by the helper functions,
   which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on open.
 
 - Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing
 
   When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for
   function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum, show the
   name of the enum instead of its number.
 
 - Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints
 
   Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not
   enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution will
   just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted to a
   direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations are
   required to be performed to update the parameters of the tracepoint. In
   this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is a static_branch()
   that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is enabled. This allows the
   extra calculations to also be skipped by the nop:
 
   if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
       x = bar();
       trace_foo(x);
   }
 
   Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem with
   this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One for
   checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if the
   tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant.
 
   Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint directly
   without doing a static_branch():
 
   if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
       x = bar();
       trace_call__foo();
   }
 
 - Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API
 
 - Move snapshot code out of trace.c
 
   Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code out of
   it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file.
 
 - Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s"
 
 - Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times
 
   Have options like:
 
     ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo
 
   Equal to:
 
     ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo
 
 - Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field
 
   The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is now a
   __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that.
 
 - Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat()
 
   It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat().
 
 - Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing
 
   A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called
   before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled respectively.
   But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the tracepoint is not
   enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear down what the "reg"
   function performed.
 
 - Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled
 
   Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output.
 
   Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing
   "$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location.
 
 - Some other simple cleanups.
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Merge tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix printf format warning for bprintf

   sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during
   the compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging
   is not enabled the warning will go away

 - Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in
   event_filter_write()

   The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then
   checked again right afterward, which is unneeded

 - Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers

   These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now
   with eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit
   and also add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data
   is not present

 - Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open

   All access to the file private data is handled by the helper
   functions, which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on
   open

 - Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing

   When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for
   function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum,
   show the name of the enum instead of its number

 - Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints

   Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not
   enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution
   will just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted
   to a direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations
   are required to be performed to update the parameters of the
   tracepoint. In this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is
   a static_branch() that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is
   enabled. This allows the extra calculations to also be skipped by the
   nop:

	if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
		x = bar();
		trace_foo(x);
	}

   Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem
   with this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One
   for checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if
   the tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant

   Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint
   directly without doing a static_branch():

	if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
		x = bar();
		trace_call__foo();
	}

 - Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API

 - Move snapshot code out of trace.c

   Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code
   out of it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file

 - Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s"

 - Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times

   Have options like:

	ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo

   Equal to:

	ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo

 - Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field

   The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is
   now a __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that

 - Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat()

   It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat()

 - Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing

   A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called
   before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled
   respectively. But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the
   tracepoint is not enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear
   down what the "reg" function performed

 - Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled

   Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output

   Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing
   "$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location

 - Some other simple cleanups

* tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for fully-qualified variable references
  tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms
  tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()
  tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call
  tracing: Report ipi_raise target CPUs as cpumask
  tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stub
  tracing: Preserve repeated trace_trigger boot parameters
  tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters
  tracing: Remove spurious default precision from show_event_trigger/filter formats
  cpufreq: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined
  tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c
  mm: damon: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  btrfs: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  spi: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  i2c: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  kernel: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  tracepoint: Add trace_call__##name() API
  tracing: trace_mmap.h: fix a kernel-doc warning
  tracing: Pretty-print enum parameters in function arguments
  ...
2026-04-17 09:43:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fdbfee9fc5 Runtime Verification updates for 7.1:
- Refactor da_monitor header to share handlers across monitor types
 
   No functional changes, only less code duplication.
 
 - Add Hybrid Automata model class
 
   Add a new model class that extends deterministic automata by adding
   constraints on transitions and states. Those constraints can take into
   account wall-clock time and as such allow RV monitor to make
   assertions on real time. Add documentation and code generation
   scripts.
 
 - Add stall monitor as hybrid automaton example
 
   Add a monitor that triggers a violation when a task is stalling as an
   example of automaton working with real time variables.
 
 - Convert the opid monitor to a hybrid automaton
 
   The opid monitor can be heavily simplified if written as a hybrid
   automaton: instead of tracking preempt and interrupt enable/disable
   events, it can just run constraints on the preemption/interrupt
   states when events like wakeup and need_resched verify.
 
 - Add support for per-object monitors in DA/HA
 
   Allow writing deterministic and hybrid automata monitors for generic
   objects (e.g. any struct), by exploiting a hash table where objects
   are saved. This allows to track more than just tasks in RV. For
   instance it will be used to track deadline entities in deadline
   monitors.
 
 - Add deadline tracepoints and move some deadline utilities
 
   Prepare the ground for deadline monitors by defining events and
   exporting helpers.
 
 - Add nomiss deadline monitor
 
   Add first example of deadline monitor asserting all entities complete
   before their deadline.
 
 - Improve rvgen error handling
 
   Introduce AutomataError exception class and better handle expected
   exceptions while showing a backtrace for unexpected ones.
 
 - Improve python code quality in rvgen
 
   Refactor the rvgen generation scripts to align with python best
   practices: use f-strings instead of %, use len() instead of __len__(),
   remove semicolons, use context managers for file operations, fix
   whitespace violations, extract magic strings into constants, remove
   unused imports and methods.
 
 - Fix small bugs in rvgen
 
   The generator scripts presented some corner case bugs: logical error in
   validating what a correct dot file looks like, fix an isinstance()
   check, enforce a dot file has an initial state, fix type annotations
   and typos in comments.
 
 - rvgen refactoring
 
   Refactor automata.py to use iterator-based parsing and handle required
   arguments directly in argparse.
 
 - Allow epoll in rtapp-sleep monitor
 
   The epoll_wait call is now rt-friendly so it should be allowed in the
   sleep monitor as a valid sleep method.
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Merge tag 'trace-rv-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull runtime verification updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Refactor da_monitor header to share handlers across monitor types

   No functional changes, only less code duplication.

 - Add Hybrid Automata model class

   Add a new model class that extends deterministic automata by adding
   constraints on transitions and states. Those constraints can take
   into account wall-clock time and as such allow RV monitor to make
   assertions on real time. Add documentation and code generation
   scripts.

 - Add stall monitor as hybrid automaton example

   Add a monitor that triggers a violation when a task is stalling as an
   example of automaton working with real time variables.

 - Convert the opid monitor to a hybrid automaton

   The opid monitor can be heavily simplified if written as a hybrid
   automaton: instead of tracking preempt and interrupt enable/disable
   events, it can just run constraints on the preemption/interrupt
   states when events like wakeup and need_resched verify.

 - Add support for per-object monitors in DA/HA

   Allow writing deterministic and hybrid automata monitors for generic
   objects (e.g. any struct), by exploiting a hash table where objects
   are saved. This allows to track more than just tasks in RV. For
   instance it will be used to track deadline entities in deadline
   monitors.

 - Add deadline tracepoints and move some deadline utilities

   Prepare the ground for deadline monitors by defining events and
   exporting helpers.

 - Add nomiss deadline monitor

   Add first example of deadline monitor asserting all entities complete
   before their deadline.

 - Improve rvgen error handling

   Introduce AutomataError exception class and better handle expected
   exceptions while showing a backtrace for unexpected ones.

 - Improve python code quality in rvgen

   Refactor the rvgen generation scripts to align with python best
   practices: use f-strings instead of %, use len() instead of
   __len__(), remove semicolons, use context managers for file
   operations, fix whitespace violations, extract magic strings into
   constants, remove unused imports and methods.

 - Fix small bugs in rvgen

   The generator scripts presented some corner case bugs: logical error
   in validating what a correct dot file looks like, fix an isinstance()
   check, enforce a dot file has an initial state, fix type annotations
   and typos in comments.

 - rvgen refactoring

   Refactor automata.py to use iterator-based parsing and handle
   required arguments directly in argparse.

 - Allow epoll in rtapp-sleep monitor

   The epoll_wait call is now rt-friendly so it should be allowed in the
   sleep monitor as a valid sleep method.

* tag 'trace-rv-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (32 commits)
  rv: Allow epoll in rtapp-sleep monitor
  rv/rvgen: fix _fill_states() return type annotation
  rv/rvgen: fix unbound loop variable warning
  rv/rvgen: enforce presence of initial state
  rv/rvgen: extract node marker string to class constant
  rv/rvgen: fix isinstance check in Variable.expand()
  rv/rvgen: make monitor arguments required in rvgen
  rv/rvgen: remove unused __get_main_name method
  rv/rvgen: remove unused sys import from dot2c
  rv/rvgen: refactor automata.py to use iterator-based parsing
  rv/rvgen: use class constant for init marker
  rv/rvgen: fix DOT file validation logic error
  rv/rvgen: fix PEP 8 whitespace violations
  rv/rvgen: fix typos in automata and generator docstring and comments
  rv/rvgen: use context managers for file operations
  rv/rvgen: remove unnecessary semicolons
  rv/rvgen: replace __len__() calls with len()
  rv/rvgen: replace % string formatting with f-strings
  rv/rvgen: remove bare except clauses in generator
  rv/rvgen: introduce AutomataError exception class
  ...
2026-04-15 17:15:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5bdb4078e1 sched_ext: Changes for v7.1
- Cgroup sub-scheduler groundwork. Multiple BPF schedulers can be
   attached to cgroups and the dispatch path is made hierarchical. This
   involves substantial restructuring of the core dispatch, bypass,
   watchdog, and dump paths to be per-scheduler, along with new
   infrastructure for scheduler ownership enforcement, lifecycle
   management, and cgroup subtree iteration. The enqueue path is not yet
   updated and will follow in a later cycle.
 
 - scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() generalized to support any DSQ including remote
   local DSQs and user DSQs. Built on top of this, SCX_ENQ_IMMED
   guarantees that tasks dispatched to local DSQs either run immediately
   or get reenqueued back through ops.enqueue(), giving schedulers tighter
   control over queueing latency. Also useful for opportunistic CPU
   sharing across sub-schedulers.
 
 - ops.dequeue() was only invoked when the core knew a task was in BPF
   data structures, missing scheduling property change events and skipping
   callbacks for non-local DSQ dispatches from ops.select_cpu(). Fixed to
   guarantee exactly one ops.dequeue() call when a task leaves BPF
   scheduler custody.
 
 - Kfunc access validation moved from runtime to BPF verifier time,
   removing runtime mask enforcement.
 
 - Idle SMT sibling prioritization in the idle CPU selection path.
 
 - Documentation, selftest, and tooling updates. Misc bug fixes and
   cleanups.
 
 - Merges from tip/sched-core, cgroup/for-7.1, and for-7.0-fixes to
   resolve dependencies and conflicts for the above changes.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cgroup sub-scheduler groundwork

   Multiple BPF schedulers can be attached to cgroups and the dispatch
   path is made hierarchical. This involves substantial restructuring of
   the core dispatch, bypass, watchdog, and dump paths to be
   per-scheduler, along with new infrastructure for scheduler ownership
   enforcement, lifecycle management, and cgroup subtree iteration

   The enqueue path is not yet updated and will follow in a later cycle

 - scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() generalized to support any DSQ including remote
   local DSQs and user DSQs

   Built on top of this, SCX_ENQ_IMMED guarantees that tasks dispatched
   to local DSQs either run immediately or get reenqueued back through
   ops.enqueue(), giving schedulers tighter control over queueing
   latency

   Also useful for opportunistic CPU sharing across sub-schedulers

 - ops.dequeue() was only invoked when the core knew a task was in BPF
   data structures, missing scheduling property change events and
   skipping callbacks for non-local DSQ dispatches from ops.select_cpu()

   Fixed to guarantee exactly one ops.dequeue() call when a task leaves
   BPF scheduler custody

 - Kfunc access validation moved from runtime to BPF verifier time,
   removing runtime mask enforcement

 - Idle SMT sibling prioritization in the idle CPU selection path

 - Documentation, selftest, and tooling updates. Misc bug fixes and
   cleanups

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (134 commits)
  tools/sched_ext: Add explicit cast from void* in RESIZE_ARRAY()
  sched_ext: Make string params of __ENUM_set() const
  tools/sched_ext: Kick home CPU for stranded tasks in scx_qmap
  sched_ext: Drop spurious warning on kick during scheduler disable
  sched_ext: Warn on task-based SCX op recursion
  sched_ext: Rename scx_kf_allowed_on_arg_tasks() to scx_kf_arg_task_ok()
  sched_ext: Remove runtime kfunc mask enforcement
  sched_ext: Add verifier-time kfunc context filter
  sched_ext: Drop redundant rq-locked check from scx_bpf_task_cgroup()
  sched_ext: Decouple kfunc unlocked-context check from kf_mask
  sched_ext: Fix ops.cgroup_move() invocation kf_mask and rq tracking
  sched_ext: Track @p's rq lock across set_cpus_allowed_scx -> ops.set_cpumask
  sched_ext: Add select_cpu kfuncs to scx_kfunc_ids_unlocked
  sched_ext: Drop TRACING access to select_cpu kfuncs
  selftests/sched_ext: Fix wrong DSQ ID in peek_dsq error message
  sched_ext: Documentation: improve accuracy of task lifecycle pseudo-code
  selftests/sched_ext: Improve runner error reporting for invalid arguments
  sched_ext: Documentation: Fix scx_bpf_move_to_local kfunc name
  sched_ext: Documentation: Add ops.dequeue() to task lifecycle
  tools/sched_ext: Fix off-by-one in scx_sdt payload zeroing
  ...
2026-04-15 10:54:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1c3b68f0d5 Scheduler changes for v7.1:
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()
  ...
2026-04-14 13:33:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c1fe867b5b Updates for the timer/timekeeping core:
- A rework of the hrtimer subsystem to reduce the overhead for frequently
     armed timers, especially the hrtick scheduler timer.
 
       - Better timer locality decision
 
       - Simplification of the evaluation of the first expiry time by
         keeping track of the neighbor timers in the RB-tree by providing a
         RB-tree variant with neighbor links. That avoids walking the
         RB-tree on removal to find the next expiry time, but even more
         important allows to quickly evaluate whether a timer which is
         rearmed changes the position in the RB-tree with the modified
         expiry time or not. If not, the dequeue/enqueue sequence which both
         can end up in rebalancing can be completely avoided.
 
       - Deferred reprogramming of the underlying clock event device. This
         optimizes for the situation where a hrtimer callback sets the need
         resched bit. In that case the code attempts to defer the
         re-programming of the clock event device up to the point where the
         scheduler has picked the next task and has the next hrtick timer
         armed. In case that there is no immediate reschedule or soft
         interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule point
         in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed in one
         of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes stale.
 
       - Support for clocksource coupled clockevents
 
       	The TSC deadline timer is coupled to the TSC. The next event is
       	programmed in TSC time. Currently this is done by converting the
       	CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry value into a relative timeout,
       	converting it into TSC ticks, reading the TSC adding the delta
       	ticks and writing the deadline MSR.
 
 	As the timekeeping core has the conversion factors for the TSC
 	already, the whole back and forth conversion can be completely
 	avoided. The timekeeping core calculates the reverse conversion
 	factors from nanoseconds to TSC ticks and utilizes the base
 	timestamps of TSC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC which are updated once per
 	tick. This allows a direct conversion into the TSC deadline value
 	without reading the time and as a bonus keeps the deadline
 	conversion in sync with the TSC conversion factors, which are
 	updated by adjtimex() on systems with NTP/PTP enabled.
 
      - Allow inlining of the clocksource read and clockevent write
        functions when they are tiny enough, e.g. on x86 RDTSC and WRMSR.
 
     With all those enhancements in place a hrtick enabled scheduler
     provides the same performance as without hrtick. But also other hrtimer
     users obviously benefit from these optimizations.
 
   - Robustness improvements and cleanups of historical sins in the hrtimer
     and timekeeping code.
 
   - Rewrite of the clocksource watchdog.
 
     The clocksource watchdog code has over time reached the state of an
     impenetrable maze of duct tape and staples. The original design, which was
     made in the context of systems far smaller than today, is based on the
     assumption that the to be monitored clocksource (TSC) can be trivially
     compared against a known to be stable clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM timer).
 
     Over the years this rather naive approach turned out to have major
     flaws. Long delays between the watchdog invocations can cause wrap
     arounds of the reference clocksource. The access to the reference
     clocksource degrades on large multi-sockets systems dure to
     interconnect congestion. This has been addressed with various
     heuristics which degraded the accuracy of the watchdog to the point
     that it fails to detect actual TSC problems on older hardware which
     exposes slow inter CPU drifts due to firmware manipulating the TSC to
     hide SMI time.
 
     The rewrite addresses this by:
 
       - Restricting the validation against the reference clocksource to the
         boot CPU which is usually closest to the legacy block which
         contains the reference clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM).
 
       - Do a round robin validation betwen the boot CPU and the other CPUs
         based only on the TSC with an algorithm similar to the TSC
         synchronization code during CPU hotplug.
 
       - Being more leniant versus remote timeouts
 
   - The usual tiny fixes, cleanups and enhancements all over the place
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - A rework of the hrtimer subsystem to reduce the overhead for
   frequently armed timers, especially the hrtick scheduler timer:

     - Better timer locality decision

     - Simplification of the evaluation of the first expiry time by
       keeping track of the neighbor timers in the RB-tree by providing
       a RB-tree variant with neighbor links. That avoids walking the
       RB-tree on removal to find the next expiry time, but even more
       important allows to quickly evaluate whether a timer which is
       rearmed changes the position in the RB-tree with the modified
       expiry time or not. If not, the dequeue/enqueue sequence which
       both can end up in rebalancing can be completely avoided.

     - Deferred reprogramming of the underlying clock event device. This
       optimizes for the situation where a hrtimer callback sets the
       need resched bit. In that case the code attempts to defer the
       re-programming of the clock event device up to the point where
       the scheduler has picked the next task and has the next hrtick
       timer armed. In case that there is no immediate reschedule or
       soft interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule
       point in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed
       in one of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes
       stale.

     - Support for clocksource coupled clockevents

       The TSC deadline timer is coupled to the TSC. The next event is
       programmed in TSC time. Currently this is done by converting the
       CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry value into a relative timeout,
       converting it into TSC ticks, reading the TSC adding the delta
       ticks and writing the deadline MSR.

       As the timekeeping core has the conversion factors for the TSC
       already, the whole back and forth conversion can be completely
       avoided. The timekeeping core calculates the reverse conversion
       factors from nanoseconds to TSC ticks and utilizes the base
       timestamps of TSC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC which are updated once per
       tick. This allows a direct conversion into the TSC deadline value
       without reading the time and as a bonus keeps the deadline
       conversion in sync with the TSC conversion factors, which are
       updated by adjtimex() on systems with NTP/PTP enabled.

     - Allow inlining of the clocksource read and clockevent write
       functions when they are tiny enough, e.g. on x86 RDTSC and WRMSR.

   With all those enhancements in place a hrtick enabled scheduler
   provides the same performance as without hrtick. But also other
   hrtimer users obviously benefit from these optimizations.

 - Robustness improvements and cleanups of historical sins in the
   hrtimer and timekeeping code.

 - Rewrite of the clocksource watchdog.

   The clocksource watchdog code has over time reached the state of an
   impenetrable maze of duct tape and staples. The original design,
   which was made in the context of systems far smaller than today, is
   based on the assumption that the to be monitored clocksource (TSC)
   can be trivially compared against a known to be stable clocksource
   (HPET/ACPI-PM timer).

   Over the years this rather naive approach turned out to have major
   flaws. Long delays between the watchdog invocations can cause wrap
   arounds of the reference clocksource. The access to the reference
   clocksource degrades on large multi-sockets systems dure to
   interconnect congestion. This has been addressed with various
   heuristics which degraded the accuracy of the watchdog to the point
   that it fails to detect actual TSC problems on older hardware which
   exposes slow inter CPU drifts due to firmware manipulating the TSC to
   hide SMI time.

   The rewrite addresses this by:

     - Restricting the validation against the reference clocksource to
       the boot CPU which is usually closest to the legacy block which
       contains the reference clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM).

     - Do a round robin validation betwen the boot CPU and the other
       CPUs based only on the TSC with an algorithm similar to the TSC
       synchronization code during CPU hotplug.

     - Being more leniant versus remote timeouts

 - The usual tiny fixes, cleanups and enhancements all over the place

* tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
  alarmtimer: Access timerqueue node under lock in suspend
  hrtimer: Fix incorrect #endif comment for BITS_PER_LONG check
  posix-timers: Fix stale function name in comment
  timers: Get this_cpu once while clearing the idle state
  clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely
  clocksource: Don't use non-continuous clocksources as watchdog
  x86/tsc: Handle CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES correctly
  MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
  parisc: Remove unused clocksource flags
  hrtimer: Add a helper to retrieve a hrtimer from its timerqueue node
  hrtimer: Remove trailing comma after HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES
  hrtimer: Mark index and clockid of clock base as const
  hrtimer: Drop unnecessary pointer indirection in hrtimer_expire_entry event
  hrtimer: Drop spurious space in 'enum hrtimer_base_type'
  hrtimer: Don't zero-initialize ret in hrtimer_nanosleep()
  hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_get_expires_ns()
  timekeeping: Mark offsets array as const
  timekeeping/auxclock: Consistently use raw timekeeper for tk_setup_internals()
  timer_list: Print offset as signed integer
  tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing
  ...
2026-04-14 10:27:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d7c8087a9c Power management updates for 7.1-rc1
- Update qcom-hw DT bindings to include Eliza hardware (Abel Vesa)
 
  - Update cpufreq-dt-platdev blocklist (Faruque Ansari)
 
  - Minor updates to driver and dt-bindings for Tegra (Thierry Reding,
    Rosen Penev)
 
  - Add MAINTAINERS entry for CPPC driver (Viresh Kumar)
 
  - Add support for new features: CPPC performance priority, Dynamic EPP,
    Raw EPP, and new unit tests for them to amd-pstate (Gautham Shenoy,
    Mario Limonciello)
 
  - Fix sysfs files being present when HW missing and broken/outdated
    documentation in the amd-pstate driver (Ninad Naik, Gautham Shenoy)
 
  - Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf() to avoid using
    cpufreq_cpu_get() in the .adjust_perf() callback in amd-pstate which
    leads to a scheduling-while-atomic bug (K Prateek Nayak)
 
  - Clean up dead code in Kconfig for cpufreq (Julian Braha)
 
  - Remove max_freq_req update for pre-existing cpufreq policy and add a
    boost_freq_req QoS request to save the boost constraint instead of
    overwriting the last scaling_max_freq constraint (Pierre Gondois)
 
  - Embed cpufreq QoS freq_req objects in cpufreq policy so they all
    are allocated in one go along with the policy to simplify lifetime
    rules and avoid error handling issues (Viresh Kumar)
 
  - Use DMI max speed when CPPC is unavailable in the acpi-cpufreq
    scaling driver (Henry Tseng)
 
  - Switch policy_is_shared() in cpufreq to using cpumask_nth() instead
    of cpumask_weight() because the former is more efficient (Yury Norov)
 
  - Use sysfs_emit() in sysfs show functions for cpufreq governor
    attributes (Thorsten Blum)
 
  - Update intel_pstate to stop returning an error when "off" is written
    to its status sysfs attribute while the driver is already off (Fabio
    De Francesco)
 
  - Include current frequency in the debug message printed by
    __cpufreq_driver_target() (Pengjie Zhang)
 
  - Refine stopped tick handling in the menu cpuidle governor and
    rearrange stopped tick handling in the teo cpuidle governor (Rafael
    Wysocki)
 
  - Add Panther Lake C-states table to the intel_idle driver (Artem
    Bityutskiy)
 
  - Clean up dead dependencies on CPU_IDLE in Kconfig (Julian Braha)
 
  - Simplify cpuidle_register_device() with guard() (Huisong Li)
 
  - Use performance level if available to distinguish between rates in
    OPP debugfs (Manivannan Sadhasivam)
 
  - Fix scoped_guard in dev_pm_opp_xlate_required_opp() (Viresh Kumar)
 
  - Return -ENODATA if the snapshot image is not loaded (Alberto Garcia)
 
  - Remove inclusion of crypto/hash.h from hibernate_64.c on x86 (Eric
    Biggers)
 
  - Clean up and rearrange the intel_rapl power capping driver to make
    the respective interface drivers (TPMI, MSR, and MMOI) hold their
    own settings and primitives and consolidate PL4 and PMU support
    flags into rapl_defaults (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan)
 
  - Correct kernel-doc function parameter names in the power capping core
    code (Randy Dunlap)
 
  - Remove unneeded casting for HZ_PER_KHZ in devfreq (Andy Shevchenko)
 
  - Use _visible attribute to replace create/remove_sysfs_files() in
    devfreq (Pengjie Zhang)
 
  - Add Tegra114 support to activity monitor device in tegra30-devfreq as
    a preparation to upcoming EMC controller support (Svyatoslav Ryhel)
 
  - Fix mistakes in cpupower man pages, add the boost and epp options to
    the cpupower-frequency-info man page, and add the perf-bias option to
    the cpupower-info man page (Roberto Ricci)
 
  - Remove unnecessary extern declarations from getopt.h in arguments
    parsing functions in cpufreq-set, cpuidle-info, cpuidle-set,
    cpupower-info, and cpupower-set utilities (Kaushlendra Kumar)
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Merge tag 'pm-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Once again, cpufreq is the most active development area, mostly
  because of the new feature additions and documentation updates in the
  amd-pstate driver, but there are also changes in the cpufreq core
  related to boost support and other assorted updates elsewhere.

  Next up are power capping changes due to the major cleanup of the
  Intel RAPL driver.

  On the cpuidle front, a new C-states table for Intel Panther Lake is
  added to the intel_idle driver, the stopped tick handling in the menu
  and teo governors is updated, and there are a couple of cleanups.

  Apart from the above, support for Tegra114 is added to devfreq and
  there are assorted cleanups of that code, there are also two updates
  of the operating performance points (OPP) library, two minor updates
  related to hibernation, and cpupower utility man pages updates and
  cleanups.

  Specifics:

   - Update qcom-hw DT bindings to include Eliza hardware (Abel Vesa)

   - Update cpufreq-dt-platdev blocklist (Faruque Ansari)

   - Minor updates to driver and dt-bindings for Tegra (Thierry Reding,
     Rosen Penev)

   - Add MAINTAINERS entry for CPPC driver (Viresh Kumar)

   - Add support for new features: CPPC performance priority, Dynamic
     EPP, Raw EPP, and new unit tests for them to amd-pstate (Gautham
     Shenoy, Mario Limonciello)

   - Fix sysfs files being present when HW missing and broken/outdated
     documentation in the amd-pstate driver (Ninad Naik, Gautham Shenoy)

   - Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf() to avoid using
     cpufreq_cpu_get() in the .adjust_perf() callback in amd-pstate
     which leads to a scheduling-while-atomic bug (K Prateek Nayak)

   - Clean up dead code in Kconfig for cpufreq (Julian Braha)

   - Remove max_freq_req update for pre-existing cpufreq policy and add
     a boost_freq_req QoS request to save the boost constraint instead
     of overwriting the last scaling_max_freq constraint (Pierre
     Gondois)

   - Embed cpufreq QoS freq_req objects in cpufreq policy so they all
     are allocated in one go along with the policy to simplify lifetime
     rules and avoid error handling issues (Viresh Kumar)

   - Use DMI max speed when CPPC is unavailable in the acpi-cpufreq
     scaling driver (Henry Tseng)

   - Switch policy_is_shared() in cpufreq to using cpumask_nth() instead
     of cpumask_weight() because the former is more efficient (Yury
     Norov)

   - Use sysfs_emit() in sysfs show functions for cpufreq governor
     attributes (Thorsten Blum)

   - Update intel_pstate to stop returning an error when "off" is
     written to its status sysfs attribute while the driver is already
     off (Fabio De Francesco)

   - Include current frequency in the debug message printed by
     __cpufreq_driver_target() (Pengjie Zhang)

   - Refine stopped tick handling in the menu cpuidle governor and
     rearrange stopped tick handling in the teo cpuidle governor (Rafael
     Wysocki)

   - Add Panther Lake C-states table to the intel_idle driver (Artem
     Bityutskiy)

   - Clean up dead dependencies on CPU_IDLE in Kconfig (Julian Braha)

   - Simplify cpuidle_register_device() with guard() (Huisong Li)

   - Use performance level if available to distinguish between rates in
     OPP debugfs (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Fix scoped_guard in dev_pm_opp_xlate_required_opp() (Viresh Kumar)

   - Return -ENODATA if the snapshot image is not loaded (Alberto
     Garcia)

   - Remove inclusion of crypto/hash.h from hibernate_64.c on x86 (Eric
     Biggers)

   - Clean up and rearrange the intel_rapl power capping driver to make
     the respective interface drivers (TPMI, MSR, and MMOI) hold their
     own settings and primitives and consolidate PL4 and PMU support
     flags into rapl_defaults (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan)

   - Correct kernel-doc function parameter names in the power capping
     core code (Randy Dunlap)

   - Remove unneeded casting for HZ_PER_KHZ in devfreq (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Use _visible attribute to replace create/remove_sysfs_files() in
     devfreq (Pengjie Zhang)

   - Add Tegra114 support to activity monitor device in tegra30-devfreq
     as a preparation to upcoming EMC controller support (Svyatoslav
     Ryhel)

   - Fix mistakes in cpupower man pages, add the boost and epp options
     to the cpupower-frequency-info man page, and add the perf-bias
     option to the cpupower-info man page (Roberto Ricci)

   - Remove unnecessary extern declarations from getopt.h in arguments
     parsing functions in cpufreq-set, cpuidle-info, cpuidle-set,
     cpupower-info, and cpupower-set utilities (Kaushlendra Kumar)"

* tag 'pm-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (74 commits)
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add POWER_SUPPLY select for dynamic EPP
  cpupower: remove extern declarations in cmd functions
  cpuidle: Simplify cpuidle_register_device() with guard()
  PM / devfreq: tegra30-devfreq: add support for Tegra114
  PM / devfreq: use _visible attribute to replace create/remove_sysfs_files()
  PM / devfreq: Remove unneeded casting for HZ_PER_KHZ
  MAINTAINERS: amd-pstate: Step down as maintainer, add Prateek as reviewer
  cpufreq: Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf()
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Pass the policy to amd_pstate_update()
  cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Add a unit test for raw EPP
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for raw EPP writes
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for platform profile class
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: add kernel command line to override dynamic epp
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add dynamic energy performance preference
  Documentation: amd-pstate: fix dead links in the reference section
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Cache the max frequency in cpudata
  Documentation/amd-pstate: Add documentation for amd_pstate_floor_{freq,count}
  Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_prefcore_ranking sysfs file
  Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_hw_prefcore sysfs file
  amd-pstate-ut: Add a testcase to validate the visibility of driver attributes
  ...
2026-04-13 19:47:52 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
ff1c0c5d07 Merge branch 'timers/urgent' into timers/core
to resolve the conflict with urgent fixes.
2026-04-11 07:58:33 +02:00
Tejun Heo
49d78adf95 sched_ext: Drop spurious warning on kick during scheduler disable
kick_cpus_irq_workfn() warns when scx_kick_syncs is NULL, but this can
legitimately happen when a BPF timer or other kick source races with
free_kick_syncs() during scheduler disable. Drop the pr_warn_once() and
add a comment explaining the race.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
2026-04-10 16:38:25 -10:00
Tejun Heo
e719e17d99 sched_ext: Warn on task-based SCX op recursion
The kf_tasks[] design assumes task-based SCX ops don't nest - if they
did, kf_tasks[0] would get clobbered. The old scx_kf_allow() WARN_ONCE
caught invalid nesting via kf_mask, but that machinery is gone now.

Add a WARN_ON_ONCE(current->scx.kf_tasks[0]) at the top of each
SCX_CALL_OP_TASK*() macro. Checking kf_tasks[0] alone is sufficient: all
three variants (SCX_CALL_OP_TASK, SCX_CALL_OP_TASK_RET,
SCX_CALL_OP_2TASKS_RET) write to kf_tasks[0], so a non-NULL value at
entry to any of the three means re-entry from somewhere in the family.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
979a98b6e9 sched_ext: Rename scx_kf_allowed_on_arg_tasks() to scx_kf_arg_task_ok()
The "kf_allowed" framing on this helper comes from the old runtime
scx_kf_allowed() gate, which has been removed. Rename it to describe what it
actually does in the new model.

Pure rename, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Cheng-Yang Chou
7cd9a5d7d4 sched_ext: Remove runtime kfunc mask enforcement
Now that scx_kfunc_context_filter enforces context-sensitive kfunc
restrictions at BPF load time, the per-task runtime enforcement via
scx_kf_mask is redundant. Remove it entirely:

 - Delete enum scx_kf_mask, the kf_mask field on sched_ext_entity, and
   the scx_kf_allow()/scx_kf_disallow()/scx_kf_allowed() helpers along
   with the higher_bits()/highest_bit() helpers they used.
 - Strip the @mask parameter (and the BUILD_BUG_ON checks) from the
   SCX_CALL_OP[_RET]/SCX_CALL_OP_TASK[_RET]/SCX_CALL_OP_2TASKS_RET
   macros and update every call site. Reflow call sites that were
   wrapped only to fit the old 5-arg form and now collapse onto a single
   line under ~100 cols.
 - Remove the in-kfunc scx_kf_allowed() runtime checks from
   scx_dsq_insert_preamble(), scx_dsq_move(), scx_bpf_dispatch_nr_slots(),
   scx_bpf_dispatch_cancel(), scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local___v2(),
   scx_bpf_sub_dispatch(), scx_bpf_reenqueue_local(), and the per-call
   guard inside select_cpu_from_kfunc().

scx_bpf_task_cgroup() and scx_kf_allowed_on_arg_tasks() were already
cleaned up in the "drop redundant rq-locked check" patch.
scx_kf_allowed_if_unlocked() was rewritten in the preceding "decouple"
patch. No further changes to those helpers here.

Co-developed-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
d1d3c1c6ae sched_ext: Add verifier-time kfunc context filter
Move enforcement of SCX context-sensitive kfunc restrictions from per-task
runtime kf_mask checks to BPF verifier-time filtering, using the BPF core's
struct_ops context information.

A shared .filter callback is attached to each context-sensitive BTF set
and consults a per-op allow table (scx_kf_allow_flags[]) indexed by SCX
ops member offset. Disallowed calls are now rejected at program load time
instead of at runtime.

The old model split reachability across two places: each SCX_CALL_OP*()
set bits naming its op context, and each kfunc's scx_kf_allowed() check
OR'd together the bits it accepted. A kfunc was callable when those two
masks overlapped. The new model transposes the result to the caller side -
each op's allow flags directly list the kfunc groups it may call. The old
bit assignments were:

  Call-site bits:
    ops.select_cpu   = ENQUEUE | SELECT_CPU
    ops.enqueue      = ENQUEUE
    ops.dispatch     = DISPATCH
    ops.cpu_release  = CPU_RELEASE

  Kfunc-group accepted bits:
    enqueue group     = ENQUEUE | DISPATCH
    select_cpu group  = SELECT_CPU | ENQUEUE
    dispatch group    = DISPATCH
    cpu_release group = CPU_RELEASE

Intersecting them yields the reachability now expressed directly by
scx_kf_allow_flags[]:

  ops.select_cpu  -> SELECT_CPU | ENQUEUE
  ops.enqueue     -> SELECT_CPU | ENQUEUE
  ops.dispatch    -> ENQUEUE | DISPATCH
  ops.cpu_release -> CPU_RELEASE

Unlocked ops carried no kf_mask bits and reached only unlocked kfuncs;
that maps directly to UNLOCKED in the new table.

Equivalence was checked by walking every (op, kfunc-group) combination
across SCX ops, SYSCALL, and non-SCX struct_ops callers against the old
scx_kf_allowed() runtime checks. With two intended exceptions (see below),
all combinations reach the same verdict; disallowed calls are now caught at
load time instead of firing scx_error() at runtime.

scx_bpf_dsq_move_set_slice() and scx_bpf_dsq_move_set_vtime() are
exceptions: they have no runtime check at all, but the new filter rejects
them from ops outside dispatch/unlocked. The affected cases are nonsensical
- the values these setters store are only read by
scx_bpf_dsq_move{,_vtime}(), which is itself restricted to
dispatch/unlocked, so a setter call from anywhere else was already dead
code.

Runtime scx_kf_mask enforcement is left in place by this patch and removed
in a follow-up.

Original-patch-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com>
Original-patch-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
2193af26a1 sched_ext: Drop redundant rq-locked check from scx_bpf_task_cgroup()
scx_kf_allowed_on_arg_tasks() runs both an scx_kf_allowed(__SCX_KF_RQ_LOCKED)
mask check and a kf_tasks[] check. After the preceding call-site fixes,
every SCX_CALL_OP_TASK*() invocation has kf_mask & __SCX_KF_RQ_LOCKED
non-zero, so the mask check is redundant whenever the kf_tasks[] check
passes. Drop it and simplify the helper to take only @sch and @p.

Fold the locking guarantee into the SCX_CALL_OP_TASK() comment block, which
scx_bpf_task_cgroup() now points to.

No functional change.

Extracted from a larger verifier-time kfunc context filter patch
originally written by Juntong Deng.

Original-patch-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com>
Cc: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
0022b32850 sched_ext: Decouple kfunc unlocked-context check from kf_mask
scx_kf_allowed_if_unlocked() uses !current->scx.kf_mask as a proxy for "no
SCX-tracked lock held". kf_mask is removed in a follow-up patch, so its two
callers - select_cpu_from_kfunc() and scx_dsq_move() - need another basis.

Add a new bool scx_rq.in_select_cpu, set across the SCX_CALL_OP_TASK_RET
that invokes ops.select_cpu(), to capture the one case where SCX itself
holds no lock but try_to_wake_up() holds @p's pi_lock. Together with
scx_locked_rq(), it expresses the same accepted-context set.

select_cpu_from_kfunc() needs a runtime test because it has to take
different locking paths depending on context. Open-code as a three-way
branch. The unlocked branch takes raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock)
directly - pi_lock alone is enough for the fields the kfunc reads, and is
lighter than task_rq_lock().

scx_dsq_move() doesn't really need a runtime test - its accepted contexts
could be enforced at verifier load time. But since the runtime state is
already there and using it keeps the upcoming load-time filter simpler, just
write it the same way: (scx_locked_rq() || in_select_cpu) &&
!kf_allowed(DISPATCH).

scx_kf_allowed_if_unlocked() is deleted with the conversions.

No semantic change.

v2: s/No functional change/No semantic change/ - the unlocked path now acquires
    pi_lock instead of the heavier task_rq_lock() (Andrea Righi).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
b470e37c1f sched_ext: Fix ops.cgroup_move() invocation kf_mask and rq tracking
sched_move_task() invokes ops.cgroup_move() inside task_rq_lock(tsk), so
@p's rq lock is held. The SCX_CALL_OP_TASK invocation mislabels this:

  - kf_mask = SCX_KF_UNLOCKED (== 0), claiming no lock is held.
  - rq = NULL, so update_locked_rq() doesn't run and scx_locked_rq()
    returns NULL.

Switch to SCX_KF_REST and pass task_rq(p), matching ops.set_cpumask()
from set_cpus_allowed_scx().

Three effects:

  - scx_bpf_task_cgroup() becomes callable (was rejected by
    scx_kf_allowed(__SCX_KF_RQ_LOCKED)). Safe; rq lock is held.

  - scx_bpf_dsq_move() is now rejected (was allowed via the unlocked
    branch). Calling it while holding an unrelated task's rq lock is
    risky; rejection is correct.

  - scx_bpf_select_cpu_*() previously took the unlocked branch in
    select_cpu_from_kfunc() and called task_rq_lock(p, &rf), which
    would deadlock against the already-held pi_lock. Now it takes the
    locked-rq branch and is rejected with -EPERM via the existing
    kf_allowed(SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU | SCX_KF_ENQUEUE) check. Latent
    deadlock fix.

No in-tree scheduler is known to call any of these from ops.cgroup_move().

v2: Add Fixes: tag (Andrea Righi).

Fixes: 18853ba782 ("sched_ext: Track currently locked rq")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
9fb457074f sched_ext: Track @p's rq lock across set_cpus_allowed_scx -> ops.set_cpumask
The SCX_CALL_OP_TASK call site passes rq=NULL incorrectly, leaving
scx_locked_rq() unset. Pass task_rq(p) instead so update_locked_rq()
reflects reality.

v2: Add Fixes: tag (Andrea Righi).

Fixes: 18853ba782 ("sched_ext: Track currently locked rq")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
a37e134317 sched_ext: Add select_cpu kfuncs to scx_kfunc_ids_unlocked
select_cpu_from_kfunc() has an extra scx_kf_allowed_if_unlocked() branch
that accepts calls from unlocked contexts and takes task_rq_lock() itself
- a "callable from unlocked" property encoded in the kfunc body rather
than in set membership. That's fine while the runtime check is the
authoritative gate, but the upcoming verifier-time filter uses set
membership as the source of truth and needs it to reflect every context
the kfunc may be called from.

Add the three select_cpu kfuncs to scx_kfunc_ids_unlocked so their full
set of callable contexts is captured by set membership. This follows the
existing dual-set convention used by scx_bpf_dsq_move{,_vtime} and
scx_bpf_dsq_move_set_{slice,vtime}, which are members of both
scx_kfunc_ids_dispatch and scx_kfunc_ids_unlocked.

While at it, add brief comments on each duplicate BTF_ID_FLAGS block
(including the pre-existing dsq_move ones) explaining the dual
membership.

No runtime behavior change: the runtime check in select_cpu_from_kfunc()
remains the authoritative gate until it is removed along with the rest
of the scx_kf_mask enforcement in a follow-up.

v2: Clarify dispatch-set comment to name scx_bpf_dsq_move*() explicitly so it
    doesn't appear to cover scx_bpf_sub_dispatch() (Andrea Righi).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Tejun Heo
9b5501d3c9 sched_ext: Drop TRACING access to select_cpu kfuncs
The select_cpu kfuncs - scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl(), scx_bpf_select_cpu_and()
and __scx_bpf_select_cpu_and() - take task_rq_lock() internally. Exposing
them via scx_kfunc_set_idle to BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING is unsafe: arbitrary
tracing contexts (kprobes, tracepoints, fentry, LSM) may run with @p's
pi_lock state unknown.

Move them out of scx_kfunc_ids_idle into a new scx_kfunc_ids_select_cpu
set registered only for STRUCT_OPS and SYSCALL.

Extracted from a larger verifier-time kfunc context filter patch
originally written by Juntong Deng.

Original-patch-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com>
Cc: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-04-10 07:54:06 -10:00
Vincent Guittot
78cde54ea5 sched/eevdf: Clear buddies for preempt_short
next buddy should not prevent shorter slice preemption. Don't take buddy
into account when checking if shorter slice entity can preempt and clear it
if the entity with a shorter slice can preempt current.

Test on snapdragon rb5:
hackbench -T -p -l 16000000 -g 2 1> /dev/null &
hackbench runs in cgroup /test-A
cyclictest -t 1 -i 2777 -D 63 --policy=fair --mlock  -h 20000 -q
cyclictest runs in cgroup /test-B

                     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          |    22679           22595           22686
Average           (us) |       84              94(-12%)        59( 37%)
Median (P50)      (us) |       56              56(  0%)        56(  0%)
90th Percentile   (us) |       64              65(- 2%)        63(  3%)
99th Percentile   (us) |     1047            1273(-22%)        74( 94%)
99.9th Percentile (us) |     2431            4751(-95%)       663( 86%)
Maximum           (us) |     4694            8655(-84%)      3934( 55%)

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410132321.2897789-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2026-04-10 16:31:50 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
83e990310d Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'
Merge cpufreq updates for 7.1-rc1:

 - Update qcom-hw DT bindings to include Eliza hardware (Abel Vesa)

 - Update cpufreq-dt-platdev blocklist (Faruque Ansari)

 - Minor updates to driver and dt-bindings for Tegra (Thierry Reding,
   Rosen Penev)

 - Add MAINTAINERS entry for CPPC driver (Viresh Kumar)

 - Add support for new features: CPPC performance priority, Dynamic EPP,
   Raw EPP, and new unit tests for them to amd-pstate (Gautham Shenoy,
   Mario Limonciello)

 - Fix sysfs files being present when HW missing and broken/outdated
   documentation in the amd-pstate driver (Ninad Naik, Gautham Shenoy)

 - Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf() to avoid using
   cpufreq_cpu_get() in the .adjust_perf() callback in amd-pstate which
   leads to a scheduling-while-atomic bug (K Prateek Nayak)

 - Clean up dead code in Kconfig for cpufreq (Julian Braha)

 - Remove max_freq_req update for pre-existing cpufreq policy and add a
   boost_freq_req QoS request to save the boost constraint instead of
   overwriting the last scaling_max_freq constraint (Pierre Gondois)

 - Embed cpufreq QoS freq_req objects in cpufreq policy so they all
   are allocated in one go along with the policy to simplify lifetime
   rules and avoid error handling issues (Viresh Kumar)

 - Use DMI max speed when CPPC is unavailable in the acpi-cpufreq
   scaling driver (Henry Tseng)

 - Switch policy_is_shared() in cpufreq to using cpumask_nth() instead
   of cpumask_weight() because the former is more efficient (Yury Norov)

 - Use sysfs_emit() in sysfs show functions for cpufreq governor
   attributes (Thorsten Blum)

 - Update intel_pstate to stop returning an error when "off" is written
   to its status sysfs attribute while the driver is already off (Fabio
   De Francesco)

 - Include current frequency in the debug message printed by
   __cpufreq_driver_target() (Pengjie Zhang)

* pm-cpufreq: (38 commits)
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add POWER_SUPPLY select for dynamic EPP
  MAINTAINERS: amd-pstate: Step down as maintainer, add Prateek as reviewer
  cpufreq: Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf()
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Pass the policy to amd_pstate_update()
  cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Add a unit test for raw EPP
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for raw EPP writes
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for platform profile class
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: add kernel command line to override dynamic epp
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add dynamic energy performance preference
  Documentation: amd-pstate: fix dead links in the reference section
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Cache the max frequency in cpudata
  Documentation/amd-pstate: Add documentation for amd_pstate_floor_{freq,count}
  Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_prefcore_ranking sysfs file
  Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_hw_prefcore sysfs file
  amd-pstate-ut: Add a testcase to validate the visibility of driver attributes
  amd-pstate-ut: Add module parameter to select testcases
  amd-pstate: Introduce a tracepoint trace_amd_pstate_cppc_req2()
  amd-pstate: Add sysfs support for floor_freq and floor_count
  amd-pstate: Add support for CPPC_REQ2 and FLOOR_PERF
  x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD CPPC Performance Priority feature.
  ...
2026-04-10 12:05:32 +02:00
Chen Yu
067a313581 sched/cache: Allow the user space to turn on and off cache aware scheduling
Provide a debugfs directory llc_balancing, and a knob named
"enabled" under it to allow the user to turn off and on the
cache aware scheduling at runtime.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0aa56f7fc48db2f8f700cd1aa34dedd0ec88351b.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:52 +02:00
Chen Yu
d59f4fd1d3 sched/cache: Enable cache aware scheduling for multi LLCs NUMA node
Introduce sched_cache_present to enable cache aware scheduling for
multi LLCs NUMA node Cache-aware load balancing should only be
enabled if there are more than 1 LLCs within 1 NUMA node.
sched_cache_present is introduced to indicate whether this
platform supports this topology.

Test results:
The first test platform is a 2 socket Intel Sapphire Rapids with 30
cores per socket. The DRAM interleaving is enabled in the BIOS so it
essential has one NUMA node with two last level caches. There are 60
CPUs associated with each last level cache.

The second test platform is a AMD Genoa. There are 4 Nodes and 32 CPUs
per node. Each node has 2 CCXs and each CCX has 16 CPUs.

hackbench/schbench/netperf/stream/stress-ng/chacha20 were launched
on these two platforms.

[TL;DR]
Sappire Rapids:
hackbench shows significant improvement when the number of
different active threads is below the capacity of a LLC.
schbench shows limitted wakeup latency improvement.
ChaCha20-xiangshan(risc-v simulator) shows good throughput
improvement. No obvious difference was observed in
netperf/stream/stress-ng in Hmean.

Genoa:
Significant improvement is observed in hackbench when
the active number of threads is lower than the number
of CPUs within 1 LLC. On v2, Aaron reported improvement
of hackbench/redis when system is underloaded.
ChaCha20-xiangshan shows huge throughput improvement.
Phoronix has tested v1 and shows good improvements in 30+
cases[3]. No obvious difference was observed in
netperf/stream/stress-ng in Hmean.

Detail:
Due to length constraints, data without much difference with
baseline is not presented.

Sapphire Rapids:
[hackbench pipe]
================
case                    load            baseline(std%)  compare%( std%)
threads-pipe-10         1-groups         1.00 (  1.22)  +26.09 (  1.10)
threads-pipe-10         2-groups         1.00 (  4.90)  +22.88 (  0.18)
threads-pipe-10         4-groups         1.00 (  2.07)   +9.00 (  3.49)
threads-pipe-10         8-groups         1.00 (  8.13)   +3.45 (  3.62)
threads-pipe-16         1-groups         1.00 (  2.11)  +26.30 (  0.08)
threads-pipe-16         2-groups         1.00 ( 15.13)   -1.77 ( 11.89)
threads-pipe-16         4-groups         1.00 (  4.37)   +0.58 (  7.99)
threads-pipe-16         8-groups         1.00 (  2.88)   +2.71 (  3.50)
threads-pipe-2          1-groups         1.00 (  9.40)  +22.07 (  0.71)
threads-pipe-2          2-groups         1.00 (  9.99)  +18.01 (  0.95)
threads-pipe-2          4-groups         1.00 (  3.98)  +24.66 (  0.96)
threads-pipe-2          8-groups         1.00 (  7.00)  +21.83 (  0.23)
threads-pipe-20         1-groups         1.00 (  1.03)  +28.84 (  0.21)
threads-pipe-20         2-groups         1.00 (  4.42)  +31.90 (  3.15)
threads-pipe-20         4-groups         1.00 (  9.97)   +4.56 (  1.69)
threads-pipe-20         8-groups         1.00 (  1.87)   +1.25 (  0.74)
threads-pipe-4          1-groups         1.00 (  4.48)  +25.67 (  0.78)
threads-pipe-4          2-groups         1.00 (  9.14)   +4.91 (  2.08)
threads-pipe-4          4-groups         1.00 (  7.68)  +19.36 (  1.53)
threads-pipe-4          8-groups         1.00 ( 10.79)   +7.20 ( 12.20)
threads-pipe-8          1-groups         1.00 (  4.69)  +21.93 (  0.03)
threads-pipe-8          2-groups         1.00 (  1.16)  +25.29 (  0.65)
threads-pipe-8          4-groups         1.00 (  2.23)   -1.27 (  3.62)
threads-pipe-8          8-groups         1.00 (  4.65)   -3.08 (  2.75)

Note: The default number of fd in hackbench is changed from 20 to various
values to ensure that threads fit within a single LLC, especially on AMD
systems. Take "threads-pipe-8, 2-groups" for example, the number of fd
is 8, and 2 groups are created.

[schbench]
The 99th percentile wakeup latency shows some improvements when the
system is underload, while it does not bring much difference with
the increasing of system utilization.

99th Wakeup Latencies	Base (mean std)      Compare (mean std)   Change
=========================================================================
thread=2                 9.00(0.00)           9.00(1.73)           0.00%
thread=4                 7.33(0.58)           6.33(0.58)           +13.64%
thread=8                 9.00(0.00)           7.67(1.15)           +14.78%
thread=16                8.67(0.58)           8.67(1.53)           0.00%
thread=32                9.00(0.00)           7.00(0.00)           +22.22%
thread=64                9.33(0.58)           9.67(0.58)           -3.64%
thread=128              12.00(0.00)          12.00(0.00)           0.00%

[chacha20 on simulated risc-v]
baseline:
Host time spent: 67861ms
cache aware scheduling enabled:
Host time spent: 54441ms

Time reduced by 24%

Genoa:
[hackbench pipe]
The default number of fd is 20, which exceed the number of CPUs
in a LLC. So the fd is adjusted to 2, 4, 6, 8, 20 respectively.
Exclude the result with large run-to-run variance, 10% ~ 50%
improvement is observed when the system is underloaded:

[hackbench pipe]
================
case                    load            baseline(std%)  compare%( std%)
threads-pipe-2          1-groups         1.00 (  2.89)  +47.33 (  1.20)
threads-pipe-2          2-groups         1.00 (  3.88)  +39.82 (  0.61)
threads-pipe-2          4-groups         1.00 (  8.76)   +5.57 ( 13.10)
threads-pipe-20         1-groups         1.00 (  4.61)  +11.72 (  1.06)
threads-pipe-20         2-groups         1.00 (  6.18)  +14.55 (  1.47)
threads-pipe-20         4-groups         1.00 (  2.99)  +10.16 (  4.49)
threads-pipe-4          1-groups         1.00 (  4.23)  +43.70 (  2.14)
threads-pipe-4          2-groups         1.00 (  3.68)   +8.45 (  4.04)
threads-pipe-4          4-groups         1.00 ( 17.72)   +2.42 (  1.14)
threads-pipe-6          1-groups         1.00 (  3.10)   +7.74 (  3.83)
threads-pipe-6          2-groups         1.00 (  3.42)  +14.26 (  4.53)
threads-pipe-6          4-groups         1.00 ( 10.34)  +10.94 (  7.12)
threads-pipe-8          1-groups         1.00 (  4.21)   +9.06 (  4.43)
threads-pipe-8          2-groups         1.00 (  1.88)   +3.74 (  0.58)
threads-pipe-8          4-groups         1.00 (  2.78)  +23.96 (  1.18)

[chacha20 on simulated risc-v]
Host time spent: 54762ms
Host time spent: 28295ms

Time reduced by 48%

Suggested-by: Libo Chen <libchen@purestorage.com>
Suggested-by: Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/71972e12ab4f08aff422b31e34df09bdbd94de84.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:51 +02:00
Tim Chen
5b1d5e6db2 sched/cache: Respect LLC preference in task migration and detach
During load balancing, make can_migrate_task()
consider a task's LLC preference.
Prevent a task from being moved out of its preferred LLC.

During the regular load balancing, if
the task cannot be migrated due to LLC locality, the
nr_balance_failed also should not be increased.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/53da65f3d59de31e1a1dc59a4093d8dd9d4dc206.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:51 +02:00
Tim Chen
714059f79f sched/cache: Handle moving single tasks to/from their preferred LLC
Cache aware scheduling mainly does two things:
1. Prevent task from migrating out of its preferred LLC if not
   nessasary.
2. Migrating task to their preferred LLC if nessasary.

For 1:
In the generic load balance, if the busiest runqueue has only one task,
active balancing may be invoked to move it away. However, this migration
might break LLC locality.

Prevent regular load balance from migrating a task that
prefers the current LLC. The load level and imbalance do not warrant
breaking LLC preference per the can_migrate_llc() policy. Here, the
benefit of LLC locality outweighs the power efficiency gained from
migrating the only runnable task away.

Before migration, check whether the task is running on its preferred
LLC: Do not move a lone task to another LLC if it would move the task
away from its preferred LLC or cause excessive imbalance between LLCs.

For 2:
On the other hand, if the migration type is migrate_llc_task, it means
that there are tasks on the env->src_cpu that want to be migrated to
their preferred LLC, launch the active load balance anyway.

Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9b816d8c27fabf2a9c0e1f61a6b90afe8ec4ad52.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:51 +02:00
Tim Chen
e4c9a4cb24 sched/cache: Add migrate_llc_task migration type for cache-aware balancing
Introduce a new migration type, migrate_llc_task, to support
cache-aware load balancing.

After identifying the busiest sched_group (having the most tasks
preferring the destination LLC), mark migrations with this type.
During load balancing, each runqueue in the busiest sched_group is
examined, and the runqueue with the highest number of tasks preferring
the destination CPU is selected as the busiest runqueue.

Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b9df27c19cc5121ddb2a7d1be7f9d52fec1563dc.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:51 +02:00
Tim Chen
f38cc2f0d8 sched/cache: Prioritize tasks preferring destination LLC during balancing
During LLC load balancing, first check for tasks that prefer the
destination LLC and balance them to it before others.

Mark source sched groups containing tasks preferring non local LLCs
with the group_llc_balance flag. This ensures the load balancer later
pulls or pushes these tasks toward their preferred LLCs.
The priority of group_llc_balance is lower than that of group_overloaded
and higher than that of all other group types. This is because
group_llc_balance may exacerbate load imbalance, and if the LLC balancing
attempt fails, the nr_balance_failed mechanism will trigger other group
types to rebalance the load.

The load balancer selects the busiest sched_group and migrates tasks
to less busy groups to distribute load across CPUs.

With cache-aware scheduling enabled, the busiest sched_group is
the one with most tasks preferring the destination LLC. If
the group has the llc_balance flag set, cache aware load balancing is
triggered.

Introduce the helper function update_llc_busiest() to identify the
sched_group with the most tasks preferring the destination LLC.

Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/baa458f45eab3f602af090c6d6af63dc864f5ec6.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:50 +02:00
Tim Chen
9a5e22fbb0 sched/cache: Check local_group only once in update_sg_lb_stats()
There is no need to check the local group twice for both
group_asym_packing and group_smt_balance. Adjust the code
to facilitate future checks for group types (cache-aware
load balancing) as well.

No functional changes are expected.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/99a57865c8ae1847087a5c00e92d24351cf3e5a8.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:50 +02:00
Tim Chen
15ad45fb80 sched/cache: Count tasks prefering destination LLC in a sched group
During LLC load balancing, tabulate the number of tasks on each runqueue
that prefer the LLC contains the env->dst_cpu in a sched group.

For example, consider a system with 4 LLC sched groups (LLC0 to LLC3)
balancing towards LLC3. LLC0 has 3 tasks preferring LLC3, LLC1 has
2, and LLC2 has 1. LLC0, having the most tasks preferring LLC3, is
selected as the busiest source to pick tasks from.

Within a source LLC, the total number of tasks preferring a destination
LLC is computed by summing counts across all CPUs in that LLC. For
instance, if LLC0 has CPU0 with 2 tasks and CPU1 with 1 task preferring
LLC3, the total for LLC0 is 3.

These statistics allow the load balancer to choose tasks from source
sched groups that best match their preferred LLCs.

Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3d8502a33a753c4384b368f97f64ee70b1cea0db.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:50 +02:00
Tim Chen
82c960aee3 sched/cache: Calculate the percpu sd task LLC preference
Calculate the number of tasks' LLC preferences for each runqueue.
This statistic is computed during task enqueue and dequeue
operations, and is used by the cache-aware load balancing.

Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d15a64436d3acd19c5c53344c5e9d3d0b79b3233.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:49 +02:00
Tim Chen
a8d0ca0b7f sched/cache: Introduce per CPU's tasks LLC preference counter
The lowest level of sched domain for each CPU is assigned an
array where each element tracks the number of tasks preferring
a given LLC, indexed from 0 to max_lid. Since each CPU
has its dedicated sd, this implies that each CPU will have
a dedicated task LLC preference counter.

For example, sd->llc_counts[3] = 2 signifies that there
are 2 tasks on this runqueue which prefer to run within LLC3.

The load balancer can use this information to identify busy
runqueues and migrate tasks to their preferred LLC domains.
This array will be reallocated at runtime during sched domain
rebuild.

Introduce the buffer allocation mechanism, and the statistics
will be calculated in the subsequent patch.

Note: the LLC preference statistics of each CPU are reset on
sched domain rebuild and may under count temporarily, until the
CPU becomes idle and the count is cleared. This is a trade off
to avoid complex data synchronization across sched domain builds.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/42e79eceb8cd6be8a032401d481d101913bc5703.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:49 +02:00
Tim Chen
46afe3af7e sched/cache: Track LLC-preferred tasks per runqueue
For each runqueue, track the number of tasks with an LLC preference
and how many of them are running on their preferred LLC. This mirrors
nr_numa_running and nr_preferred_running for NUMA balancing, and will
be used by cache-aware load balancing in later patches.

Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/459a37102f3d74a4e09ea58401d2094ac731d044.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:49 +02:00
Tim Chen
47d8696b95 sched/cache: Assign preferred LLC ID to processes
With cache-aware scheduling enabled, each task is assigned a
preferred LLC ID. This allows quick identification of the LLC domain
where the task prefers to run, similar to numa_preferred_nid in
NUMA balancing.

Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f2ceecba5858680349ad4ce9303a2121f0bb7272.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:49 +02:00
Tim Chen
b5ea300a17 sched/cache: Make LLC id continuous
Introduce an index mapping between CPUs and their LLCs. This provides
a roughly continuous per LLC index needed for cache-aware load balancing in
later patches.

The existing per_cpu llc_id usually points to the first CPU of the
LLC domain, which is sparse and unsuitable as an array index. Using
llc_id directly would waste memory.

With the new mapping, CPUs in the same LLC share an approximate
continuous id:

  per_cpu(llc_id, CPU=0...15)  = 0
  per_cpu(llc_id, CPU=16...31) = 1
  per_cpu(llc_id, CPU=32...47) = 2
  ...

Note that the LLC IDs are allocated via bitmask, so the IDs may be
reused during CPU offline->online transitions.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Originally-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/047ef46339e4db497b54a89940a7ebedf27fcf28.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:48 +02:00
Chen Yu
23b2b5ccc4 sched/cache: Introduce helper functions to enforce LLC migration policy
Cache-aware scheduling aggregates threads onto their preferred LLC,
mainly through load balancing. When the preferred LLC becomes
saturated, more threads are still placed there, increasing latency.
A mechanism is needed to limit aggregation so that the preferred LLC
does not become overloaded.

Introduce helper functions can_migrate_llc() and
can_migrate_llc_task() to enforce the LLC migration policy:

  1. Aggregate a task to its preferred LLC if both source and
     destination LLCs are not too busy, or if doing so will not
     leave the preferred LLC much more imbalanced than the
     non-preferred one (>20% utilization difference, a little
     higher than the default imbalance_pct(17%) of the LLC domain
     as hysteresis). Later this threshold will be turned into tunable
     debugfs.
  2. Allow moving a task from overloaded preferred LLC to a non
     preferred LLC if this will not cause the non preferred LLC
     to become too imbalanced to cause a later migration back.
  3. If both LLCs are too busy, let the generic load balance to
     spread the tasks.

Further (hysteresis)action could be taken in the future to prevent tasks
from being migrated into and out of the preferred LLC frequently (back and
forth): the threshold for migrating a task out of its preferred LLC should
be higher than that for migrating it into the LLC.

Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d19b52589cdceaee5e625980959f4d1982d6d7c9.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
2026-04-09 15:49:48 +02:00