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Tejun Heo 46a85ae6fe sched_ext: Tie cpu occupancy to SCX_CAP_BASE through the task slice
A task's slice grants it cpu occupancy - how long it holds its cpu. In a
sub-scheduler hierarchy cpu access is delegated through revocable
capabilities, so a task's occupancy must follow them. Only its own scheduler
sets its slice, and extending the slice is allowed only while that scheduler
holds baseline cpu access (SCX_CAP_BASE) on the cpu. Otherwise a scheduler
could keep occupying a cpu it has been denied simply by handing out long
slices.

The cap check reads effective caps, which are coherent only under the task's
rq lock, and the kernel decrements the slice under that lock as the task
runs, so a running task's slice can be changed only there while a queued
task's can be set directly. Make scx_bpf_task_set_slice() apply the slice
under the rq lock. Synchronously when the caller already holds it, otherwise
by stashing it in the new p->scx.slice_oob, tagged with the scheduler's id
so a request that outlived a reassignment is dropped. Whether the caller
holds @p's current rq lock is tested with p->scx.runnable_cpu.

Revocation is enforced through the same grant. When a cpu's effective caps
lose SCX_CAP_BASE, the cap-revoke reenq scan also checks the running task
and zeroes its slice to evict it. The scan runs as a balance callback after
the pick, so this catches both the task that was running when the revoke
landed and a capless task the pick just promoted off the local DSQ. The
paths that keep a task on its cpu - holding on to the last runnable task in
balance, the ENQ_LAST reinsertion and the slice refill on pick - skip tasks
lacking baseline access. A migration-disabled task is exempt, mirroring its
capless admission on insert.

v4: Test rq ownership with p->scx.runnable_cpu, closing a remote-wakeup TOCTOU. (sashiko AI)
v3: Keep a pending out-of-band slice request across refill and preserve. (sashiko AI)
v2: Only write slice directly when @p is queued on the held rq. (sashiko AI)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-13 22:18:43 -10:00
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