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This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci
This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.
Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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kernel-doc
Commit 13f1eae3b662 ("sched_ext: Synchronize slice and dsq_vtime
writes") added the slice and vtime parameters to finish_dispatch() but
did not update its kernel-doc, which produces warnings:
Warning: function parameter 'slice' not described in 'finish_dispatch'
Warning: function parameter 'vtime' not described in 'finish_dispatch'
Describe both parameters using the same wording as
dispatch_to_local_dsq(), which receives the same values.
Signed-off-by: Liang Luo <luoliang@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Fix several comment issues found during review:
__setschduler_prio() -> __setscheduler_class()
scx_iter_scx_dsq_new() -> bpf_iter_scx_dsq_new()
scx_next_task_scx() -> set_next_task_scx()
Signed-off-by: Wanwu Li <liwanwu@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_dsq_move() verifies that the task belongs to the calling scheduler
before taking any locks and aborts the scheduler on mismatch. The task can
lose the sched association at any point: It can run and fully exit, which
clears the association, or get rehomed to a different sub-sched. Both are
benign races, but the early ownership check escalates them into scheduler
aborts.
Move the ownership check below the cursor-lost check. Every ownership change
dequeues the task first, so a task that is still on the iterated DSQ under
the lock while owned elsewhere indicates a genuine violation and should
abort.
Also fix two stale comments still referencing sched_ext_free(), which has
been renamed to sched_ext_dead().
Fixes: bb4d9fd55158 ("sched_ext: scx_dsq_move() should validate the task belongs to the right scheduler")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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ops.cgroup_set_bandwidth() is delivered from scx_group_set_bandwidth(),
which runs from the cpu.max cgroup interface write path (tg_set_bandwidth())
in process context. scx_group_set_bandwidth() holds
percpu_down_read(&scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem), whose read side may sleep.
The call site is therefore sleepable, like ops.cgroup_init().
bpf_scx_check_member() rejects a sleepable program on any member not on its
allow-list, so a BPF scheduler cannot allocate -- which is sleepable -- when
a cgroup gains a cpu.max limit at runtime; it must instead pre-reserve memory
for a callback that cannot allocate. Add cgroup_set_bandwidth() to the
allow-list so the callback can allocate on demand, and document that it may
block.
A scheduler must decide at load time whether to mark the callback sleepable,
but the allow-list entry is a verifier property with no symbol to probe. Add
a compatibility marker whose presence in the kernel's BTF lets userspace detect
this support: DEFINE_SCX_COMPAT_MARKER() emits an empty, callerless function,
here scx_compat_marker_cgroup_set_bandwidth_may_sleep(). It is __used
__retain so neither the compiler nor the linker (under
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION) drops it. The markers share the
scx_compat_marker_ prefix and are collected near the end of ext.c so more
can be added as further capabilities appear.
Signed-off-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Pull to receive the __arena argument conversion:
67f1f4a48c24 ("sched_ext: Pass kernel arena pointers to ops_cid callbacks")
a8dc810968af ("sched_ext: Convert sub-cap kfuncs to __arena cmask arguments")
a05c5b5cb5cf ("sched_ext: Convert scx_bpf_cid_override() to __arena array arguments")
along with the bpf-next branch carrying the __arena argument support they
depend on.
Conflict in kernel/sched/ext/ext.c between:
c384ab8a0b13 ("sched_ext: Move the config-off sub-cap kfunc stubs into sub.c")
and:
a8dc810968af ("sched_ext: Convert sub-cap kfuncs to __arena cmask arguments")
which updated the stubs in their old ext.c location. Resolved by keeping
ext.c without the stubs and applying the prototype conversion to the
relocated stubs in sub.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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dequeue_task_scx() masks SCX_DEQ_CORE_SCHED_EXEC out of the
SCX_DEQ_SCHED_CHANGE decision, but the test can never fire: the incoming
flags are an int of generic DEQUEUE_* bits while the flag is bit 32, and the
core-sched execute path never goes through class dequeue anyway -
set_next_task_scx() calls ops_dequeue() with the flag directly. The test was
live when the SCX_DEQ_SCHED_CHANGE computation sat in ops_dequeue() and
became dead when 03f5304aad0f ("sched_ext: Pass full dequeue flags to
ops.quiescent()") moved the computation here. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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With sub-schedulers, tasks of different schedulers routinely share rqs and
SMT siblings, but scx_prio_less() consults ops.core_sched_before() only when
both tasks belong to the same scheduler. Every pair spanning two schedulers
falls back to the default ordering, so no scheduler can express ordering
across a scheduler boundary, including a root over its sub-schedulers'
tasks.
Order a pair spanning schedulers by the nearest common ancestor that
implements ops.core_sched_before(): both tasks are in its subtree, making
this the one op where a scheduler is called on tasks it delegated to its
sub-schedulers and may not be scheduling anymore. Same-scheduler pairs keep
using the owning scheduler's op so a parent never orders inside a subtree it
delegated. The op is skipped when the deciding scheduler is bypassing on
either task's CPU.
Update scx_qmap to fall back to the kernel's default ordering when handed a
delegated task it has no task_ctx for.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The default core-sched ordering runs the longest waiting task first by
comparing p->scx.core_sched_at stamps. The stamp is maintained under two
rules. touch_core_sched() stamps when a task starts waiting for a CPU and
when its slice runs out. If the scheduler implements
ops.core_sched_before(), touch_core_sched_dispatch() re-stamps on every
dispatch.
A comparison can see one stamp taken under each rule, which isn't a
meaningful ordering. The dispatch rule also buys little - it only aligns
bypass-mode comparisons with the local DSQ order. Multiple schedulers make
the mixed comparisons more common.
Wait time is what p->scx.runnable_at already tracks for the stall watchdog.
Delete core_sched_at with both touch functions and compare runnable_at in
the scx_prio_less() fallback.
runnable_at is refreshed only on enqueue and goes stale while a task keeps
occupying its CPU. Instead of re-stamping, order a running task after every
waiting task as it is the most recently serviced.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_prio_less() implements prio_less() semantics - %true means that @a is
the lower priority and should run after @b. ops.core_sched_before() is
documented to return %true when @a should run before @b. scx_prio_less()
returns the op's value as-is, inverting the documented semantics at runtime.
Call the op with the arguments swapped.
scx_qmap followed the wiring instead of the documentation and returned %true
for the younger task, so the two inversions canceled out and it behaved as
intended. Flip its comparison to match. scx_qmap is likely the only current
user in or out of the kernel tree. Any scheduler written the same way needs
the same flip, while schedulers following the documentation are fixed by
this change.
Fixes: 7b0888b7cc19 ("sched_ext: Implement core-sched support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The EOPNOTSUPP stubs for the sub-cap kfuncs live in ext.c under #ifndef
CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED while the real definitions live in sub.c. Move the
stubs into sub.c so all sub kfunc definitions live in one file. Pure code
move, no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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sched_class->balance() is gone from sched_ext and what balance_one() does is
run dispatch to produce something pickable. Update the balance-era names to
dispatch terms:
- balance_one() -> dispatch_one()
- SCX_RQ_IN_BALANCE -> SCX_RQ_IN_DISPATCH
No BPF scheduler reads the flag. The enum autogen headers gain the new name
with the old entry retained like other removed enumerators, zero-filling at
load time. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The fixup demoting a keep verdict when @prev is not on ext_sched_class
guarded against the rq-level SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP flag going stale back when
balancing and picking were separate operations.
The verdict now travels in the return value, created and consumed in one
invocation against the @prev it evaluated, and every keep decision tests
SCX_TASK_QUEUED under the rq lock, which implies ext_sched_class as a class
switch dequeues first. Drop the fixup along with dispatch_core_pick()'s
copy.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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kick_sync_wait_bal_cb() assumes it runs on the rq's CPU from the
__schedule() tail: the snapshots it compares against live in that CPU's
percpu area and the busy-wait runs with the rq lock dropped and IRQs
enabled.
However, dispatch can now drop the rq lock while the callback sits queued,
and rq lock takers in that window (the sched class change paths, the scx
task iterator) flush pending balance callbacks on release, running the
callback on a foreign CPU. Such a run compares against unrelated snapshots
and can deadlock when the executing CPU is itself a wait target.
Bail on a foreign CPU and leave the wait state alone. The wait only observes
progress that the resched kicks already guarantee and the rq's next wait
picks up the stale cpus_to_sync bits.
Fixes: 4c95380701f5 ("sched/ext: Fold balance_scx() into pick_task_scx()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() queues a deferred reenq (dru) that runs from
run_deferred(), not ops.dispatch(). If the DSQ is destroyed before the dru
runs, process_deferred_reenq_users() sees dsq->id == SCX_DSQ_INVALID and
hits the BUG_ON. destroy_dsq() doesn't flush pending drus, so just skip.
tj: Read dsq->id once with READ_ONCE(). Reading it separately in the INVALID
check and the BUG_ON would leave a window where destroy_dsq() can
invalidate the id between the two reads and still trigger the BUG_ON.
Fixes: 84b1a0ea0b7c ("sched_ext: Implement scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() for user DSQs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.1+
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_bpf_events() always reads the root scheduler's event counters, so a
sub-scheduler program querying its own events silently gets the root's
instead and has no BPF-visible way to read its own (the per-scheduler sysfs
"events" file is the only interface). Resolve the scheduler from the calling
program with scx_prog_sched(). Unassociated programs follow the usual
scx_prog_sched() resolution: the root scheduler under a pre-sub-attach
compat root and zeroed counters otherwise.
Also fix up the malformed comment into proper kerneldoc.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_root_disable() invalidates each rq's clock before taking the rq lock.
scx_rq_clock_invalidate() is a plain read-modify-write of rq->scx.flags and
every other writer of the word runs under the rq lock, so the unlocked
update can race a concurrent flags update and lose one side's bits.
The invalidation doesn't matter in the first place. The cached clock is read
only by scx_bpf_now() from a loaded scheduler's BPF programs, nothing can
re-validate the clock while sched_ext is disabled as scx_rq_clock_update()
is gated on scx_enabled() too, and the usual rq lock cycles under the next
scheduler refresh or invalidate it before it's practically observable. Drop
the invalidation instead of fixing the locking.
v2: Description and comment updated - the invalidation is unnecessary rather
than subsumed by the rq lock cycle below.
Fixes: 3a9910b5904d ("sched_ext: Implement scx_bpf_now()")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
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scx_fork() initializes tasks when scx_init_task_enabled is set, but
scx_cancel_fork() only exits them when scx_enabled() is true. A fork
that fails in the enable window (between releasing scx_fork_rwsem and
setting __scx_enabled) runs ops.init_task() but never ops.exit_task().
Gate scx_cancel_fork() on scx_init_task_enabled.
Fixes: 4269c603cc26 ("sched_ext: Enable scx_ops_init_task() separately")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Signed-off-by: fangqiurong <fangqiurong@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- inlines.h: scx_bpf_dispatch() doesn't exist; the comment means
scx_bpf_sub_dispatch()
- internal.h: name %SCX_DEQ_SCHED_CHANGE instead of the never-defined
%SCX_DEQ_SAVE
- internal.h: @name shows up in the ops file in the scheduler's sysfs
directory, not a "kernel.sched_ext_ops" sysctl
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_process_sync_ecaps() sets up the dispatch context for
ops.sub_ecaps_updated() in the target cpu's pcpu context recovered from the
llist node. However, the context is per executing cpu: the dispatch kfuncs
resolve it with this_cpu_ptr() and the dispatch buffer lives in it. What the
dispatches target is determined by the rq recorded in the context, not by
which cpu's context it is. Under core scheduling the pick runs balance_one()
for sibling rqs, so a sync processed for a sibling invokes the op with the
executing cpu's context not set up and its dispatch kfuncs misoperate on a
NULL or stale rq.
Set up the executing cpu's dsp_ctx instead, matching scx_dispatch_sched().
The recorded rq keeps the dispatches targeting the synced cpu.
Fixes: b81a6c018cde ("sched_ext: Add sub_ecaps_updated() effective-cap change notifier")
Reported-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260813045931.8691-1-devnexen@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_bpf_cid_override() predates the cid-form arena transition and takes its
arrays as verifier-checked mem+size buffers, forcing scx_qmap to keep the
cpu_to_cid and shard_start arrays in writable bss while the rest of its
state lives in the arena. Unify on arena arguments before cid-form
schedulers start seeing real use.
BPF now translates between BPF and kernel arena addresses for __arena
arguments. Take the arrays as __arena arguments, with the counts passed in
entries. The counts now size the snapshot copies and are bounds-checked
before them.
scx_qmap moves the arrays into struct qmap_arena. As the arena is mmapped at
load, the loader populates them between load and attach instead of before
load.
The arena argument address translation is currently implemented only on
x86-64. Schedulers calling this kfunc load only there for now.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The sub-cap kfuncs take their cmask arguments as __ign pointers. The values
cross the kfunc boundary as unchecked scalars and scx_cmask_ref_init()
rebases them into the arena by hand.
BPF now translates between BPF and kernel arena addresses for __arena
arguments. Tag the cmask arguments __arena so the kfuncs receive kernel
addresses and scx_cmask_ref_init() loses the hand-rolled conversion. The
optional denied_out keeps its NULL not-provided signal via
__arena__nullable. The mandatory masks use plain __arena.
scx_qmap's call sites drop the (void *)(long) casts since the BPF-side
declarations type the cmask arguments __arena and take arena pointers
directly.
The arena argument address translation is currently implemented only on
x86-64. Schedulers calling these kfuncs load only there for now.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The cid-form set_cmask() and sub_caps_updated() callbacks receive cmasks
that the kernel builds in the arena, and the kernel converts the kernel
addresses to the BPF arena pointer form by hand before each call.
BPF now translates between BPF and kernel arena addresses for __arena
arguments. Tag the arguments __arena in the cfi stubs and the ops_cid member
declarations and pass the kernel arena addresses directly, dropping the
manual scx_kaddr_to_arena() conversions and the now-unused helper. The
delivered value is unchanged and existing BPF-side code works as before.
The arena argument address translation is currently implemented only on
x86-64. cid-form schedulers implementing these callbacks load only there for
now.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_bpf_cid_to_cpu(), scx_bpf_cpu_to_cid() and scx_bpf_cid_topo() live in
the scx_kfunc_ids_cid set, but scx_kfunc_context_filter() doesn't check
that set. The filter's first test treats any kfunc outside its known sets
as non-SCX and allows it, so these three kfuncs can be called from any
struct_ops program - e.g. a TCP congestion control program.
Add scx_kfunc_ids_cid to the filter's known sets, matching how in_any and
in_idle are handled.
Fixes: e9b55af47edf ("sched_ext: Add topological CPU IDs (cids)")
Assisted-by: Z.ai:glm-5.2
Signed-off-by: fangqiurong <fangqiurong@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Pull to receive:
c10b216a072f ("sched/core: Handle pick_task() releasing the rq lock")
f3629c63a4af ("sched/core: Make core-sched flips wait for in-flight selections")
ffaab58d2175 ("sched_ext: Replace SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP with a dispatch verdict return")
3dd52416e44a ("sched_ext: Fix this_rq() assumptions in dispatch kfuncs")
f2da9587118d ("sched_ext: Count rq lock releases in rq->scx.lock_drop_seq")
d954004205c1 ("sched_ext: Fix rq->core_pick corruption under core scheduling")
for the pending core scheduling follow-ups and to resolve the conflicts
with the code reorganization and cap gate work on for-7.3.
ffaab58d2175 converts scx_dispatch_sched() to a dispatch verdict return
which for-7.3 moved from ext.c into inlines.h. Resolved by applying the
conversion to the relocated copy and combining balance_one()'s verdict
returns with the scx_task_can_stay_on_cpu() gate from the cap work.
ffaab58d2175 and 3dd52416e44a update scx_bpf_sub_dispatch() which
for-7.3 moved into sub.c. Resolved by applying the scx_locked_rq()
switch and the verdict test to the sub.c copy.
f2da9587118d instruments the open-coded lock releases in
consume_remote_task() which for-7.3 folded into switch_rq_lock().
Resolved by keeping the accounting in switch_rq_lock() which covers all
its callers.
d954004205c1 widens the put_prev_task_scx() WARN suppression to all
core-sched rqs on the same condition that for-7.3 gated with
scx_task_can_stay_on_cpu(). Resolved by combining both.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Core scheduling's pick_next_task() picks what to run on every SMT sibling of
the core in a single pass under the shared core-wide rq lock. The selection
state is consistent only while the lock is held continuously, so
->pick_task() originally could not release it. However, since 4c95380701f5
("sched/ext: Fold balance_scx() into pick_task_scx()"), sched_ext runs
dispatch from inside the pick and dispatching can drop the rq lock. To
support this, pick_next_task() has been updated to restart the whole
selection when a pick returns RETRY_TASK after releasing the lock.
When selections on the same core interleave through the dropped lock, they
corrupt each other's state: one clears the other's rq->core_pick leading to
a NULL deref, or invalidates its keep-the-previous-task decision leaving a
dequeued task running, which deadlocks the next wakeup and matches the
reported hard hangs. A cookied ping-pong load on an SMT machine makes the
interleavings frequent and kills the kernel within seconds.
Fix it by making the pick return RETRY_TASK whenever dispatch released the
rq lock, so that a selection only ever commits picks made under a
continuously held lock. The previous patch's rq->scx.lock_drop_seq counts
the releases. A dispatch that touched nothing never releases the lock and
its verdict, including "nothing to run", stands: retries are bounded, each
following a dispatch that actually did something, and an idle CPU does not
loop.
If another dispatch is already in flight on the rq, skip dispatching and
pick from what is already queued locally - the in-flight dispatch has
released the lock, so its own selection will retry and re-pick this rq,
while returning RETRY_TASK here would only spin on the lock that dispatch
needs to finish.
Balance callbacks must run in the context that queued them, so they can only
be queued on the CPU's own rq. When dispatching for another rq, run the
deferred work directly instead - that rq may consume all its picks through
the core-sched fast path and never queue the callback itself.
The put_prev_task_scx() warning about a runnable task being left behind
assumed that dispatch ran as part of the very pick that is switching away.
That now only holds on the non-core path, so gate it and drop the
cookie-match test, which is always true without core scheduling, from its
condition.
Fixes: 4c95380701f5 ("sched/ext: Fold balance_scx() into pick_task_scx()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Reported-by: ElXreno <elxreno@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/issues/3715
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Under core scheduling, pick_next_task() selects for all SMT siblings under
one continuous hold of the shared core-wide rq lock, and sched_ext's
dispatch can release that lock from inside the pick. In preparation for
making the core-sched pick detect the releases and retry, add
rq->scx.lock_drop_seq and bump it at every site that can release an rq lock
while a dispatch may be in flight. The counter is only maintained while core
scheduling is enabled. No functional changes.
Fixes: 4c95380701f5 ("sched/ext: Fold balance_scx() into pick_task_scx()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Under core scheduling, dispatch runs from within the core-wide pick and can
target a sibling rq, so ops.dispatch() may execute on a CPU different from
the dispatched rq's. Several kfunc paths assumed the two always coincide:
- scx_dsq_move() decided whether an rq lock is held by testing this_rq()'s
rq flags and lock-danced accordingly. A dispatch for a sibling took the
unlocked-context branch and acquired the source rq lock on top of the
already held dispatched rq lock which could deadlock.
- scx_bpf_sub_dispatch() dispatched this_rq() with its stashed
sub_dispatch_prev, which is NULL when dispatching for a sibling.
- finish_dispatch(), scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() and scx_bpf_dsq_nr_queued()
resolved SCX_DSQ_LOCAL to this CPU's local DSQ rather than the dispatched
rq's. The latter two are callable from other rq-locked operations too,
where SCX_DSQ_LOCAL now likewise resolves to the op's rq. This changes
behavior also without core scheduling, e.g. for ops.enqueue() running a
remote wakeup on the waking CPU, and is intended: which CPU happens to
execute an operation is incidental, the op's rq is what it is operating
on, and the resolution now matches the insert side where SCX_DSQ_LOCAL
dispatches land on the task's rq.
Use the rq tracked by scx_locked_rq(), which is set to the dispatched rq
around ops invocations and NULL in unlocked contexts.
Fixes: 4c95380701f5 ("sched/ext: Fold balance_scx() into pick_task_scx()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP tells the pick to keep running the previous task, a leftover
from when balancing and picking were separate operations. An rq-level flag
only works while dispatches and picks pair up one to one, which core
scheduling breaks: selections interleave through dispatch's lock drops and a
pick can consume a stale flag, keeping a task that has since been dequeued.
Fixing core scheduling support requires the decision to travel with the
dispatch that made it. Make scx_dispatch_sched() and balance_one() return an
explicit verdict instead and drop the flag's plumbing from the tools autogen
enum headers.
Also factor the pick-side invocation, its follow-up queueing and the
post-dispatch checks out of do_pick_task_scx() into dispatch_pick(). No
functional changes intended.
v2: Drop the SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP plumbing from the tools autogen enum headers
as well (Andrea).
Fixes: 4c95380701f5 ("sched/ext: Fold balance_scx() into pick_task_scx()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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When rescue demand on a cpu persistently exceeds the configured bandwidth,
tasks age on that cpu's rescue DSQ until the stall watchdog fires. The
watchdog blames the waiting task's owner, but the misbehaving party is
whoever floods the queue, not whoever happens to time out.
Track each sched's recent rescue consumption per cpu as a decaying average.
Once the oldest waiter on a cpu's rescue DSQ has been queued past a
threshold derived from the rescue knobs (4s at the defaults), the rescue
timer ejects the sub with the highest recent consumption on that cpu with
SCX_EXIT_ERROR_RESCUE. With no recent consumer there is no victim and
nothing is ejected - the generic stall watchdog eventually blames the
waiter's owner instead. Ejections on a cpu are spaced one threshold apart so
the freed bandwidth can drain the backlog before another sub is judged.
The overload check only wins the race against the stall watchdog when the
watchdog timeout clears the threshold, and a single in-budget wait must not
cross the trigger on its own. Warn on a scheduler whose timeout doesn't fit
and on knobs whose funding period exceeds half the threshold.
v2: - Track kill_at in jiffies_64 - on 32-bit, the time_before() grace check
wraps 2^31 ticks after the last ejection and suppresses ejections.
(sashiko AI)
- Track rescue_avg_at in jiffies_64 likewise - the unsigned long decay
delta truncates mod 2^32 on 32-bit and can revive a weeks-old usage
average in the victim pick.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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A local DSQ insert lacking the needed caps is diverted to the reject DSQ and
bounced back through ops.enqueue() so the scheduler can re-decide. That
recovery assumes the scheduler has somewhere legal to send the task. When it
doesn't, e.g. when the task's affinity is restricted to cids delegated away,
the task starves until the stall watchdog ejects the scheduler. An exiting
task is worse - it skips ops.enqueue() and the rejection becomes a
self-requeuing cycle that burns the CPU until the watchdog fires.
Add SCX_ENQ_RESCUE, a fallback modifier on local DSQ inserts. When the
insert would be rejected for missing caps, the kernel takes over and runs
the task on the target CPU without consulting the owning scheduler. The
kernel sets the flag itself when enqueueing an exiting task.
Rescue is a last-resort forward-progress backstop with a persistent
disadvantage, not a way around cap enforcement. A per-CPU token bucket
accrues rescue_bandwidth_ppt (default 2%) of CPU time and rescues run one at
a time in arrival order. Each is granted a slice of the rescue_quantum_us
(default 5ms) quantum divided across the waiters, waits at the tail of the
local DSQ claiming no priority, and rejoins its scheduler as a fresh arrival
once the slice is served.
The schedulers keep their normal control over an admitted rescuee and may
preempt or reslice it. Service is measured on CPU time actually received, so
neither shortens the rescue. Prolonged denial escalates - the remaining
slice turns into protected execution (SCX_TASK_PROTECTED) and the rescuee
preempts the current task. Escalation is paced by the same bucket, and
delivered service converges on the configured bandwidth no matter how
aggressively the schedulers dispatch.
Both knobs are root-only and SCX_RESCUE_DISABLE turns rescue off, making
SCX_ENQ_RESCUE inserts reject as usual.
v2: - Add SCX_OPS_OPEN() fix-ups for the new ops fields so cpu-form
schedulers setting them still load on older kernels. (Andrea)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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A BPF scheduler can displace any of its tasks at will - cut a running one's
slice with an SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT dispatch, an SCX_KICK_PREEMPT kick or a direct
shortening, and jump a queued one with HEAD insertions. Sometimes the kernel
needs a slice and a DSQ position to stick regardless.
Add SCX_TASK_PROTECTED, guarding both:
- The slice becomes immutable. Every scheduler-reachable write is refused
and counted as SCX_EV_SLICE_DENIED. Higher scheduling classes are
unaffected. PREEMPT|IMMED can't preempt a running protected task and gets
reenqueued.
- A protected task that reached the head of its DSQ keeps it - HEAD
insertions land behind the leading run of protected tasks and reenqueue
sweeps skip them. Only rq-owned DSQs can hold protected tasks, so the walk
runs only for them.
The bit lives in p->scx.flags so that both the refusal and the head walk
read it under the rq lock that protects it.
Protection ends when the slice is consumed, when the task leaves the rq
except for a save/restore on the running task, on a yield, when the
scheduler enters bypass, and when the task leaves scx. The flag is
kernel-internal and not used yet.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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p->scx.slice and p->scx.dsq_vtime writes have no synchronization rules. The
dsq insert kfuncs write both fields synchronously from whatever context
they're called in - a direct dispatch from ops.select_cpu() writes with only
pi_lock held - and, as the kfuncs are safe to call spuriously with the
invalid dispatch discarded later, a scheduler can modify any task's slice by
spuriously calling them. The latter stands in the way of an upcoming patch
which adds kernel-granted slices that the schedulers must not be able to
modify.
Give both fields explicit rules. While the task is running, sleeping or
queued on an rq-owned DSQ, the rq lock protects them - these are the states
where the kernel consumes the slice. While queued on a user DSQ or on the
BPF side, the kernel neither consumes nor decides on the fields and every
writer acts for the BPF scheduler - synchronizing the writers is the
scheduler's responsibility and whichever write lands last wins.
To conform, an insert kfunc no longer writes the fields when called. The
values travel with the dispatch and take effect when the task is inserted. A
discarded dispatch has no side effects. The rq lock rule is asserted at the
slice store.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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SCX_ENQ_IGNORE_CAPS is kernel-internal and marks a placement the kernel
forces. scx_caps_for_enq() waives the enqueue cap for it, but a PREEMPT
insert still picks up the preemption cap requirement from
scx_caps_for_preempt(). Update scx_caps_for_preempt() to take enq_flags and
require nothing when SCX_ENQ_IGNORE_CAPS is set.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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The dsq insert kfuncs reject __SCX_ENQ_INTERNAL_MASK bits in
scx_dsq_insert_preamble() instead of scx_vet_enq_flags(). A scheduler can
smuggle internal flags such as SCX_ENQ_CLEAR_OPSS through the dsq move
kfuncs and corrupt the dispatch protocol. Move the rejection into
scx_vet_enq_flags(). The vtime move wrapper OR'd the internal
SCX_ENQ_DSQ_PRIQ bit into enq_flags before the vet; the bit now goes in
inside scx_dsq_move() after the vet.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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scx_bpf_now() couples the valid-or-fresh rq clock read to the current rq.
The read is useful for kernel-internal timing against a specific rq,
including a remotely locked one. Factor it out into __scx_bpf_now().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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set_task_slice(), task_unlink_from_dsq(), move_local_task_to_local_dsq(),
init_dsq() and dump_line() will be used outside ext.c. Add the scx_ prefix
and declare them in internal.h. The scx_sched_all list will also be used
outside ext.c, drop its static. No functional changes.
v2: Declare scx_sched_all outside the CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED block - the
definition is unconditional. (sashiko AI)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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The following rescue execution addition gives the function a third possible
destination, making a name that enumerates the outcomes a poor fit. Rename
to the destination-neutral scx_resolve_local_dsq(). No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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The built-in idle masks are reset with all online CPUs marked idle
before sched_ext is enabled. Busy CPUs can therefore be incorrectly
advertised as idle until their next idle transition.
Initialize the masks empty so that the initial state is conservative.
When bypass is lifted, every CPU is rescheduled and idle-to-idle
re-picks populate the masks with CPUs that are actually idle. Later
idle transitions keep the masks up to date.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuba Piecuch <jpiecuch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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If the SCX_ENABLING -> SCX_ENABLED cmpxchg at the tail of
scx_root_enable_workfn() fails, the function jumps to err_disable
without setting ret. At that point ret still holds the return value
of the last successful __scx_init_task() call, which is 0, so the
err_disable fallback reports the meaningless message:
scx_root_enable() failed (0)
Set ret = -EBUSY, consistent with the other enable-state guards at
the top of the same function, so the fallback always reports a real
errno.
Signed-off-by: Liang Luo <luoliang@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The kernel-doc comment for sched_ext_ops::sub_cgroup_id uses the old
@cgroup_id name, which no longer matches the struct member. This
produces two kernel-doc warnings:
Warning: struct member sub_cgroup_id not described in sched_ext_ops
Warning: Excess struct member cgroup_id description in sched_ext_ops
Update the @param name to match the actual member.
Signed-off-by: Liang Luo <luoliang@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_link_sched() carries each failure out of the locked section through
err_msg and ret because scx_error() used to take scx_sched_lock and couldn't
be called under it. That restriction is gone, so report each failure at the
site it's detected and return directly. The scx_error() here claims the exit
on the sched being linked, which has no descendants yet, and the locked
propagation walk is deferred, so nothing reacquires scx_sched_lock inline.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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scx_hardlockup() defers the abort to an irq_work because exit claiming used
to take scx_sched_lock and couldn't run from NMI. The deferral is now
unnecessary - claiming is NMI-safe and asserting ->aborting is exactly what
breaks the live-locks that hard-lock CPUs. Call handle_lockup() directly and
drop the irq_work. This also makes the self-detected case recoverable: the
perf watchdog fires on the hard-locked CPU itself, where a queued irq_work
never runs with IRQs off.
Also fix the return value: %true used to be returned whenever sched_ext was
loaded, suppressing the kernel's hardlockup report even when the abort was
refused. Return %true only when this call initiated the abort.
Fixes: bd2d76455b65 ("sched_ext: Defer scx_hardlockup() out of NMI")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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The per-cpu kick lists are protected by IRQ masking which doesn't stop NMIs,
so scx_bpf_kick_cpu() from NMI silently drops the kick after a one-time
warning. A dropped kick can leave a CPU idle when the scheduler believes it
was woken, which is a correctness problem for the scheduler even if the
kernel is fine. Now that scx_error() works from NMI, abort the scheduler
instead so that the bug is surfaced deterministically. The warned_nmi_kick
tracking is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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The bstr exit kfuncs format the message into a shared static buffer under a
raw spinlock before initiating the exit. The lock can't be taken from NMI
and needlessly serializes all bstr exits system-wide.
Now that exit claiming is lock-free, reverse the order: claim the exit first
and format directly into the exit_info message buffer which the claim winner
owns exclusively. The new scx_exit_bstr() implements the sequence, replacing
scx_bstr_format(), and the shared buffer and lock are deleted; the formatter
itself is what bpf_trace_printk() already runs from NMI. scx_prog_sched()
callers were relying on the lock for RCU protection, which is now provided
explicitly.
A malformed format no longer changes or fails the requested operation:
scx_bpf_exit_bstr() keeps its graceful exit kind and scx_bpf_sub_kill_bstr()
still kills the child, with a fallback message carrying the formatting
errno, while the sched that supplied the bad format is aborted for its bug.
Before this and the previous patch, an "any" category kfunc called from NMI
context could trigger scx_error() and deadlock - e.g. a tracing prog
attached to a function running in NMI calling scx_bpf_dsq_peek() on a
non-existent DSQ would try to grab scx_sched_lock, which may be held by the
interrupted CPU. This and the previous patch fix the deadlock: scx_error()
and the bstr exit kfuncs, and thus scx_bpf_error() and scx_bpf_exit(), are
now safe to call from any context including NMI.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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scx_claim_exit() claims descendants' exits by walking the subtree under
scx_sched_lock, making exit claiming, and thus scx_error(), unusable from
NMI and from under scx_sched_lock. However, kfuncs raising errors can run
from NMI-attached BPF progs, the hardlockup handler runs in NMI, and
scx_link_sched() wants to report failures under the lock.
The walk does two things with different urgencies: ->aborting must be
asserted synchronously to break IRQs-off dispatch-path live-locks, while the
descendants' exit_kind claims can happen later. Split them: sweep ->aborting
locklessly under RCU to unwedge the system and defer the locked
SCX_EXIT_PARENT walk to a new irq_work, both of which are NMI-safe.
The sweep stores each node's ->aborting and then reads its children list
while scx_link_sched() inserts and then checks the parent's ->aborting, the
two sides paired by full barriers - one side always sees the other. A link
that sees ->aborting undoes its insert and fails. As the undo's
list_del_rcu() leaves ->sibling non-empty, list_empty() can no longer
identify a never-linked sched during teardown - add sch->linked instead.
trace_sched_ext_exit can now fire from NMI and is called after the
->aborting stores so that its callbacks don't hold up live-lock recovery.
The exit backtrace is skipped for NMI exits as stack_trace_save()'s
NMI-safety is arch-dependent and undocumented.
v2: Move trace_sched_ext_exit() after the ->aborting stores (Andrea).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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Unlike local reenqueues, cap rejections have no repeat limit. A
malfunctioning scheduler can keep re-inserting a task to a cid it lacks caps
on, cycling the task through reject and reenqueue. This was assumed safe
because a task that never runs trips the stall watchdog. However, the
reenqueue irq_work re-arms itself and outranks the timer vector, blocking
everything else on the CPU including stall detection and recovery, until the
NMI hardlockup detector fires.
Local reenqueues already have a repeat cap, SCX_REENQ_LOCAL_MAX_REPEAT,
which needs generalizing to cover all reenqueues. It also has an attribution
problem. Counted per-cpu on root, it tears down the whole hierarchy even
when a sub-scheduler caused the repeated reenqueues.
Generalize by bounding every reenqueue with one per-task counter. reenq_cnt
is bumped in scx_do_enqueue_task() on each SCX_ENQ_REENQ, the single path
every reenqueue producer passes through, and cleared in clr_task_runnable()
when the task is picked to run and in scx_disable_task() when it leaves the
scheduler's control. Past SCX_REENQ_MAX_REPEAT the task's owning scheduler
is ejected with a new SCX_EXIT_ERROR_REENQ and the task is left stranded to
be picked up during sched exit.
The SCX_EV_REENQ_LOCAL_REPEAT event becomes SCX_EV_REENQ_REPEAT, counting
repeat reenqueues from all sources.
v2: Count SCX_EV_REENQ_REPEAT only when a reenqueue leads to another
reenqueue, not on every reenqueue.
v3: - Also clear reenq_cnt in scx_disable_task() so that the count doesn't
carry over to the next owner across sched class switches, scheduler
replacement or sub-scheduler rehoming (Andrea Righi).
- Update the stale SCX_EV_REENQ_LOCAL_REPEAT references in sched-ext.rst
(Andrea Righi).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
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dsq->first_task is __rcu for the lockless scx_bpf_dsq_peek(). The task
removal path compares it against the departing task with a plain load, which
sparse flags. The comparison runs under the dsq lock and only tests
identity, so rcu_access_pointer() is the fit.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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scx_root is __rcu and naked accesses were left as transitional markers for
the multi-scheduler transition, to be converted to accesses through the
associated scheduler instances. Most accesses have since been converted to
resolve the sched from the program or task at hand. The remaining naked
sites divide into ones that semantically always want the root sched, which
this patch resolves, and one that is left to a later patch.
The resolved sites:
- The SCX_OPS_TID_TO_TASK validation and the ecaps sync kick already hold a
sched whose ancestors[] pins the root as entry 0 with plain pointers
stable for the sched's lifetime. Reach the root through the sched at hand.
- The dispatch entry, class switch, idle notification and fork init paths
only execute while the scheduler is live and scx_root never changes inside
the live window, so no update can race them. Add scx_root_protected_live()
which documents that invariant and resolves with a plain load.
- The hotplug path, including the ecaps reseeds, runs with the hotplug lock
held, which excludes the scx_root writers. Add scx_root_protected(), which
accepts either the hotplug lock or scx_enable_mutex.
- Is-root tests use a zero level instead of comparing against the global.
touch_core_sched_dispatch() stays naked, to be resolved by a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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cgrp->scx_sched is __rcu and published with rcu_assign_pointer() but every
reader loads it with a plain access, so sparse flags all of them. The reads
are lock-protected: enable/disable paths rewrite the field under all of
scx_enable_mutex, scx_fork_rwsem and cgroup_mutex, and cgroup creation
inherits the parent's sched under cgroup_mutex before the new cgroup is
reachable, so holding any one of the three locks makes the read stable.
Add scx_cgroup_sched() which states the protection with
rcu_dereference_check() and convert the readers. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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