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>
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
...
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()
...
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
...
John noted that commit 1151354225 ("sched/deadline: Fix 'stuck' dl_server")
unfixed the issue from commit a3a70caf79 ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server
behaviour").
The issue in commit 1151354225 was for wakeups of the server after the
deadline; in which case you *have* to start a new period. The case for
a3a70caf79 is wakeups before the deadline.
Now, because the server is effectively running a least-laxity policy, it means
that any wakeup during the runnable phase means dl_entity_overflow() will be
true. This means we need to adjust the runtime to allow it to still run until
the existing deadline expires.
Use the revised wakeup rule for dl_defer entities.
Fixes: 1151354225 ("sched/deadline: Fix 'stuck' dl_server")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260404102244.GB22575@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
With proxy-execution, the scheduler selects the donor, but for
blocked donors, we end up running the lock owner.
This caused some complexity, because the class schedulers make
sure to remove the task they pick from their pushable task
lists, which prevents the donor from being migrated, but there
wasn't then anything to prevent rq->curr from being migrated
if rq->curr != rq->donor.
This was sort of hacked around by calling proxy_tag_curr() on
the rq->curr task if we were running something other then the
donor. proxy_tag_curr() did a dequeue/enqueue pair on the
rq->curr task, allowing the class schedulers to remove it from
their pushable list.
The dequeue/enqueue pair was wasteful, and additonally K Prateek
highlighted that we didn't properly undo things when we stopped
proxying, leaving the lock owner off the pushable list.
After some alternative approaches were considered, Peter
suggested just having the RT/DL classes just avoid migrating
when task_on_cpu().
So rework pick_next_pushable_dl_task() and the rt
pick_next_pushable_task() functions so that they skip over the
first pushable task if it is on_cpu.
Then just drop all of the proxy_tag_curr() logic.
Fixes: be39617e38 ("sched: Fix proxy/current (push,pull)ability")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e735cae0-2cc9-4bae-b761-fcb082ed3e94@amd.com/
Reported-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324191337.1841376-2-jstultz@google.com
Add the following tracepoints:
* sched_dl_throttle(dl_se, cpu, type):
Called when a deadline entity is throttled
* sched_dl_replenish(dl_se, cpu, type):
Called when a deadline entity's runtime is replenished
* sched_dl_update(dl_se, cpu, type):
Called when a deadline entity updates without throttle or replenish
* sched_dl_server_start(dl_se, cpu, type):
Called when a deadline server is started
* sched_dl_server_stop(dl_se, cpu, type):
Called when a deadline server is stopped
Those tracepoints can be useful to validate the deadline scheduler with
RV and are not exported to tracefs.
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260330111010.153663-11-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
The SCHED_DEADLINE scheduler allows reading the statically configured
run-time, deadline, and period parameters through the sched_getattr()
system call. However, there is no immediate way to access, from user space,
the current parameters used within the scheduler: the instantaneous runtime
left in the current cycle, as well as the current absolute deadline.
The `flags' sched_getattr() parameter, so far mandated to contain zero,
now supports the SCHED_GETATTR_FLAG_DL_DYNAMIC=1 flag, to request
retrieval of the leftover runtime and absolute deadline, converted to a
CLOCK_MONOTONIC reference, instead of the statically configured parameters.
This feature is useful for adaptive SCHED_DEADLINE tasks that need to
modify their behavior depending on whether or not there is enough runtime
left in the current period, and/or what is the current absolute deadline.
Notes:
- before returning the instantaneous parameters, the runtime is updated;
- the abs deadline is returned shifted from rq_clock() to ktime_get_ns(),
in CLOCK_MONOTONIC reference; this causes multiple invocations from the
same period to return values that may differ for a few ns (showing some
small drift), albeit the deadline doesn't move, in rq_clock() reference;
- the abs deadline value returned to user-space, as unsigned 64-bit value,
can represent nearly 585 years since boot time;
- setting flags=0 provides the old behavior (retrieve static parameters).
See also the notes from discussion held at OSPM 2025 on the topic
"Making user space aware of current deadline-scheduler parameters".
Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Matteo Martelli <matteo.martelli@codethink.co.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912053937.31636-2-tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it
For RT and DL thread, only 'set_next_task_(rt/dl)' will call
'update_stats_wait_end_(rt/dl)' to update schedstats information.
However, during the migration process,
'update_stats_wait_start_(rt/dl)' will be called twice, which
will cause the values of wait_max and wait_sum to be incorrect.
The specific output as follows:
$ cat /proc/6046/task/6046/sched | grep wait
wait_start : 0.000000
wait_max : 496717.080029
wait_sum : 7921540.776553
A complete schedstats information update flow of migrate should be
__update_stats_wait_start() [enter queue A, stage 1] ->
__update_stats_wait_end() [leave queue A, stage 2] ->
__update_stats_wait_start() [enter queue B, stage 3] ->
__update_stats_wait_end() [start running on queue B, stage 4]
Stage 1: prev_wait_start is 0, and in the end, wait_start records the
time of entering the queue.
Stage 2: task_on_rq_migrating(p) is true, and wait_start is updated to
the waiting time on queue A.
Stage 3: prev_wait_start is the waiting time on queue A, wait_start is
the time of entering queue B, and wait_start is expected to be greater
than prev_wait_start. Under this condition, wait_start is updated to
(the moment of entering queue B) - (the waiting time on queue A).
Stage 4: the final wait time = (time when starting to run on queue B)
- (time of entering queue B) + (waiting time on queue A) = waiting
time on queue B + waiting time on queue A.
The current problem is that stage 2 does not call __update_stats_wait_end
to update wait_start, which causes the final computed wait time = waiting
time on queue B + the moment of entering queue A, leading to incorrect
wait_max and wait_sum.
Add 'update_stats_wait_end_(rt/dl)' in 'update_stats_dequeue_(rt/dl)' to
update schedstats information when dequeue_task.
Signed-off-by: Dengjun Su <dengjun.su@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204115959.3183567-1-dengjun.su@mediatek.com
There are two problems with sched_server_write_common() that can cause the
dl_server to malfunction upon attempting to change the parameters:
1) when, after having disabled the dl_server by setting runtime=0, it is
enabled again while tasks are already enqueued. In this case is_active would
still be 0 and dl_server_start() would not be called.
2) when dl_server_apply_params() would fail, runtime is not applied and does
not reflect the new state.
Instead have dl_server_start() check its actual dl_runtime, and have
sched_server_write_common() unconditionally (re)start the dl_server. It will
automatically stop if there isn't anything to do, so spurious activation is
harmless -- while failing to start it is a problem.
While there, move the printk out of the locked region and make it symmetric,
also printing on enable.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203103407.GK1282955@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
sched_ext currently suffers starvation due to RT. The same workload when
converted to EXT can get zero runtime if RT is 100% running, causing EXT
processes to stall. Fix it by adding a DL server for EXT.
A kselftest is also included later to confirm that both DL servers are
functioning correctly:
# ./runner -t rt_stall
===== START =====
TEST: rt_stall
DESCRIPTION: Verify that RT tasks cannot stall SCHED_EXT tasks
OUTPUT:
TAP version 13
1..1
# Runtime of FAIR task (PID 1511) is 0.250000 seconds
# Runtime of RT task (PID 1512) is 4.750000 seconds
# FAIR task got 5.00% of total runtime
ok 1 PASS: FAIR task got more than 4.00% of runtime
TAP version 13
1..1
# Runtime of EXT task (PID 1514) is 0.250000 seconds
# Runtime of RT task (PID 1515) is 4.750000 seconds
# EXT task got 5.00% of total runtime
ok 2 PASS: EXT task got more than 4.00% of runtime
TAP version 13
1..1
# Runtime of FAIR task (PID 1517) is 0.250000 seconds
# Runtime of RT task (PID 1518) is 4.750000 seconds
# FAIR task got 5.00% of total runtime
ok 3 PASS: FAIR task got more than 4.00% of runtime
TAP version 13
1..1
# Runtime of EXT task (PID 1521) is 0.250000 seconds
# Runtime of RT task (PID 1522) is 4.750000 seconds
# EXT task got 5.00% of total runtime
ok 4 PASS: EXT task got more than 4.00% of runtime
ok 1 rt_stall #
===== END =====
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260126100050.3854740-5-arighi@nvidia.com
Andrea reported the dl_server getting stuck for him. He tracked it
down to a state where dl_server_start() saw dl_defer_running==1, but
the dl_server's job is no longer valid at the time of
dl_server_start().
In the state diagram this corresponds to [4] D->A (or dl_server_stop()
due to no more runnable tasks) followed by [1], which in case of a
lapsed deadline must then be A->B.
Now our A has dl_defer_running==1, while B demands
dl_defer_running==0, therefore it must get cleared when the CBS wakeup
rules demand a replenish.
Fixes: a110a81c52 ("sched/deadline: Deferrable dl server")
Reported-by: Andrea Righi arighi@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi arighi@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260123161645.2181752-1-arighi@nvidia.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130124100.GC1079264@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Pierre reported hitting balance callback warnings for deadline tasks
after commit 6455ad5346 ("sched: Move sched_class::prio_changed()
into the change pattern").
It turns out that DEQUEUE_SAVE+ENQUEUE_RESTORE does not preserve DL
priority and subsequently trips a balance pass -- where one was not
expected.
From discussion with Juri and Luca, the purpose of this clause was to
deal with tasks new to DL and all those sites will have MOVE set (as
well as CLASS, but MOVE is move conservative at this point).
Per the previous patches MOVE is audited to always run the balance
callbacks, so switch enqueue_dl_entity() to use MOVE for this case.
Fixes: 6455ad5346 ("sched: Move sched_class::prio_changed() into the change pattern")
Reported-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114130528.GB831285@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Pratheek tripped a WARN and noted the following issue:
> Inspecting the set of events that led to the warning being triggered
> showed the following:
>
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: do_set_cpus_allowed: set_cpus_allowed begin!
>
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: sched_change_begin: Begin!
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: sched_change_begin: Before dequeue_task()!
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: update_curr_dl_se: update_curr_dl_se: ENQUEUE_REPLENISH
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: enqueue_dl_entity: enqueue_dl_entity: ENQUEUE_REPLENISH
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: replenish_dl_entity: Replenish before: 14815760217
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: replenish_dl_entity: Replenish after: 14816960047
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: sched_change_begin: Before put_prev_task()!
>
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: sched_change_end: Before enqueue_task()!
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: sched_change_end: Before put_prev_task()!
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: prio_changed_dl: Queuing pull task on prio change: 14815760217 -> 14816960047
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: prio_changed_dl: Queuing balance callback!
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: sched_change_end: End!
>
> systemd-1 [008] dN.31 ...: do_set_cpus_allowed: set_cpus_allowed end!
> systemd-1 [008] dN.21 ...: __schedule: Woops! Balance callback found!
>
> 1. sched_change_begin() from guard(sched_change) in
> do_set_cpus_allowed() stashes the priority, which for the deadline
> task, is "p->dl.deadline".
> 2. The dequeue of the deadline task replenishes the deadline.
> 3. The task is enqueued back after guard's scope ends and since there is
> no *_CLASS flags set, sched_change_end() calls
> dl_sched_class->prio_changed() which compares the deadline.
> 4. Since deadline was moved on dequeue, prio_changed_dl() sees the value
> differ from the stashed value and queues a balance pull callback.
> 5. do_set_cpus_allowed() finishes and drops the rq_lock without doing a
> do_balance_callbacks().
> 6. Grabbing the rq_lock() at subsequent __schedule() triggers the
> warning since the balance pull callback was never executed before
> dropping the lock.
Meaning get_prio_dl() ought to update current and return an up-to-date
value.
Fixes: 6455ad5346 ("sched: Move sched_class::prio_changed() into the change pattern")
Reported-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106104113.GX3707891@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
The deadline server can currently stop due to idle although fair tasks
are runnable. This happens essentially when:
* the server is set to idle, a task wakes up, the server stops
* a task wakes up, the server sets itself to idle and stops right away
Address both cases by clearing the server idle flag whenever a fair task
wakes up and accounting also for pending tasks in the definition of idle.
Fixes: f5a538c07d ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server stop condition")
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113085159.114226-3-gmonaco@redhat.com
The access rule for local_cpu_mask_dl requires it to be called on the
local CPU with preemption disabled. However, dl_add_task_root_domain()
currently violates this rule.
Without preemption disabled, the following race can occur:
1. ThreadA calls dl_add_task_root_domain() on CPU 0
2. Gets pointer to CPU 0's local_cpu_mask_dl
3. ThreadA is preempted and migrated to CPU 1
4. ThreadA continues using CPU 0's local_cpu_mask_dl
5. Meanwhile, the scheduler on CPU 0 calls find_later_rq() which also
uses local_cpu_mask_dl (with preemption properly disabled)
6. Both contexts now corrupt the same per-CPU buffer concurrently
Fix this by moving the local_cpu_mask_dl access to the preemption
disabled section.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aSBjm3mN_uIy64nz@jlelli-thinkpadt14gen4.remote.csb
Fixes: 318e18ed22 ("sched/deadline: Walk up cpuset hierarchy to decide root domain when hot-unplug")
Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125032630.8746-3-piliu@redhat.com
The comments above dl_get_task_effective_cpus() and
dl_add_task_root_domain() already explain how to fetch a valid
root domain and protect against races. There's no need to repeat
this inside dl_add_task_root_domain(). Remove the redundant comment
to keep the code clean.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125032630.8746-2-piliu@redhat.com
Change sched_class::wakeup_preempt() to also get called for
cross-class wakeups, specifically those where the woken task
is of a higher class than the previous highest class.
In order to do this, track the current highest class of the runqueue
in rq::next_class and have wakeup_preempt() track this upwards for
each new wakeup. Additionally have schedule() re-set the value on
pick.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127154725.901391274@infradead.org
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Defer task cgroup unlink until after the dying task's final context
switch so that controllers see the cgroup properly populated until
the task is truly gone
- cpuset cleanups and simplifications.
Enforce that domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partitions
and fail if isolated+nohz_full would leave no housekeeping CPU. Fix
sched/deadline root domain handling during CPU hot-unplug and race
for tasks in attaching cpusets
- Misc fixes including memory reclaim protection documentation and
selftest KTAP conformance
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
cpuset: Treat cpusets in attaching as populated
sched/deadline: Walk up cpuset hierarchy to decide root domain when hot-unplug
cgroup/cpuset: Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked()
docs: cgroup: No special handling of unpopulated memcgs
docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection
docs: cgroup: Explain reclaim protection target
selftests/cgroup: conform test to KTAP format output
cpuset: remove need_rebuild_sched_domains
cpuset: remove global remote_children list
cpuset: simplify node setting on error
cgroup: include missing header for struct irq_work
cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT
cgroup/cpuset: Globally track isolated_cpus update
cgroup/cpuset: Ensure domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partition
cgroup/cpuset: Move up prstate_housekeeping_conflict() helper
cgroup/cpuset: Fail if isolated and nohz_full don't leave any housekeeping
cgroup/cpuset: Rename update_unbound_workqueue_cpumask() to update_isolation_cpumasks()
cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out
cgroup: Move dying_tasks cleanup from cgroup_task_release() to cgroup_task_free()
cgroup: Rename cgroup lifecycle hooks to cgroup_task_*()
...
*** Bug description ***
When testing kexec-reboot on a 144 cpus machine with
isolcpus=managed_irq,domain,1-71,73-143 in kernel command line, I
encounter the following bug:
[ 97.114759] psci: CPU142 killed (polled 0 ms)
[ 97.333236] Failed to offline CPU143 - error=-16
[ 97.333246] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 97.342682] kernel BUG at kernel/cpu.c:1569!
[ 97.347049] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
[...]
In essence, the issue originates from the CPU hot-removal process, not
limited to kexec. It can be reproduced by writing a SCHED_DEADLINE
program that waits indefinitely on a semaphore, spawning multiple
instances to ensure some run on CPU 72, and then offlining CPUs 1–143
one by one. When attempting this, CPU 143 failed to go offline.
bash -c 'taskset -cp 0 $$ && for i in {1..143}; do echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/online 2>/dev/null; done'
Tracking down this issue, I found that dl_bw_deactivate() returned
-EBUSY, which caused sched_cpu_deactivate() to fail on the last CPU.
But that is not the fact, and contributed by the following factors:
When a CPU is inactive, cpu_rq()->rd is set to def_root_domain. For an
blocked-state deadline task (in this case, "cppc_fie"), it was not
migrated to CPU0, and its task_rq() information is stale. So its rq->rd
points to def_root_domain instead of the one shared with CPU0. As a
result, its bandwidth is wrongly accounted into a wrong root domain
during domain rebuild.
*** Issue ***
The key point is that root_domain is only tracked through active rq->rd.
To avoid using a global data structure to track all root_domains in the
system, there should be a method to locate an active CPU within the
corresponding root_domain.
*** Solution ***
To locate the active cpu, the following rules for deadline
sub-system is useful
-1.any cpu belongs to a unique root domain at a given time
-2.DL bandwidth checker ensures that the root domain has active cpus.
Now, let's examine the blocked-state task P.
If P is attached to a cpuset that is a partition root, it is
straightforward to find an active CPU.
If P is attached to a cpuset that has changed from 'root' to 'member',
the active CPUs are grouped into the parent root domain. Naturally, the
CPUs' capacity and reserved DL bandwidth are taken into account in the
ancestor root domain. (In practice, it may be unsafe to attach P to an
arbitrary root domain, since that domain may lack sufficient DL
bandwidth for P.) Again, it is straightforward to find an active CPU in
the ancestor root domain.
This patch groups CPUs into isolated and housekeeping sets. For the
housekeeping group, it walks up the cpuset hierarchy to find active CPUs
in P's root domain and retrieves the valid rd from cpu_rq(cpu)->rd.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
cpumask_subset(a,b) -> cpumask_weight(a) should be same as cpumask_weight_and(a,b)
for_each_cpu_and(a,b) to count cpus could be replaced by cpumask_weight_and(a,b)
No Functional Change. It could save a few cycles since cpumask_weight_and
would be more efficient. Plus one less stack variable.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014100342.978936-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Gabriel reported that the dl_server doesn't stop as expected.
The problem was found to be the fact that idle time and fair runtime are
treated equally. Both will count towards dl_server runtime and push the
activation forwards when it is in the zero-laxity wait state.
Notably:
dl_server_update_idle()
update_curr_dl_se()
if (dl_defer && dl_throttled && dl_runtime_exceeded())
hrtimer_try_to_cancel(); // stop timer
replenish_dl_new_period()
deadline = now + dl_deadline; // fwd period
runtime = dl_runtime;
start_dl_timer(); // restart timer
And while we do want idle time accounted towards the *current* activation of
the dl_server -- after all, a fair task could've ran if we had any -- we don't
necessarily want idle time to cause or push forward an activation.
Introduce dl_defer_idle to make this distinction. It will be set once idle time
pushed the activation forward, once set idle time will only be allowed to
consume any runtime but not push the activation. This will then cause
dl_server_timer() to fire, which will stop the dl_server.
Any non-idle time accounting during this phase will clear dl_defer_idle, so
only a full period of idle will cause the dl_server to stop.
Reported-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101000057.GA2184199@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
The dl_server time accounting code is a little odd. The normal scheduler
pattern is to update curr before doing something, such that the old state is
fully accounted before changing state.
Notably, the dl_server_timer() needs to propagate the current time accounting
since the current task could be ran by dl_server and thus this can affect
dl_se->runtime. Similarly for dl_server_start().
And since the (deferred) dl_server wants idle time accounted, rework
sched_idle_class time accounting to be more like all the others.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020141130.GJ3245006@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Some pick functions like the internal pick_next_task_fair() already take
rf but some others dont. We need this for scx's server pick function.
Prepare for this by having pick functions accept it.
[peterz: - added RETRY_TASK handling
- removed pick_next_task_fair indirection]
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Have enqueue/dequeue set a per-class bit in rq->queue_mask. This then
enables easy tracking of which runqueues are modified over a
lock-break.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Move sched_class::prio_changed() into the change pattern.
And while there, extend it with sched_class::get_prio() in order to
fix the deadline sitation.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Prepare for the sched_class::switch*() methods getting folded into the
change pattern. As a result of that, the location of switched_from
will change slightly. SCHED_DEADLINE is affected by this change in
location:
OLD NEW
|
| switching_from()
dequeue_task(); | dequeue_task()
put_prev_task(); | put_prev_task()
| switched_from()
|
... change task ... | ... change task ...
|
switching_to(); | switching_to()
enqueue_task(); | enqueue_task()
set_next_task(); | set_next_task()
prev_class->switched_from() |
switched_to() | switched_to()
|
Notably, where switched_from() was called *after* the change to the
task, it will get called before it. Specifically, switched_from_dl()
uses dl_task(p) which uses p->prio; which is changed when switching
class (it might be the reason to switch class in case of PI).
When switched_from_dl() gets called, the task will have left the
deadline class and dl_task() must be false, while when doing
dequeue_dl_entity() the task must be a dl_task(), otherwise we'd have
called a different dequeue method.
Reported-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Commit 16b269436b ("sched/deadline: Modify cpudl::free_cpus
to reflect rd->online") introduced the cpudl_set/clear_freecpu
functions to allow the cpu_dl::free_cpus mask to be manipulated
by the deadline scheduler class rq_on/offline callbacks so the
mask would also reflect this state.
Commit 9659e1eeee ("sched/deadline: Remove cpu_active_mask
from cpudl_find()") removed the check of the cpu_active_mask to
save some processing on the premise that the cpudl::free_cpus
mask already reflected the runqueue online state.
Unfortunately, there are cases where it is possible for the
cpudl_clear function to set the free_cpus bit for a CPU when the
deadline runqueue is offline. When this occurs while a CPU is
connected to the default root domain the flag may retain the bad
state after the CPU has been unplugged. Later, a different CPU
that is transitioning through the default root domain may push a
deadline task to the powered down CPU when cpudl_find sees its
free_cpus bit is set. If this happens the task will not have the
opportunity to run.
One example is outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250110233010.2339521-1-opendmb@gmail.com
Another occurs when the last deadline task is migrated from a
CPU that has an offlined runqueue. The dequeue_task member of
the deadline scheduler class will eventually call cpudl_clear
and set the free_cpus bit for the CPU.
This commit modifies the cpudl_clear function to be aware of the
online state of the deadline runqueue so that the free_cpus mask
can be updated appropriately.
It is no longer necessary to manage the mask outside of the
cpudl_set/clear functions so the cpudl_set/clear_freecpu
functions are removed. In addition, since the free_cpus mask is
now only updated under the cpudl lock the code was changed to
use the non-atomic __cpumask functions.
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
IBM CI tool reported kernel warning[1] when running a CPU removal
operation through drmgr[2]. i.e "drmgr -c cpu -r -q 1"
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:219 cpudl_set+0x58/0x170
NIP [c0000000002b6ed8] cpudl_set+0x58/0x170
LR [c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0
Call Trace:
[c000000002c2f8c0] init_stack+0x78c0/0x8000 (unreliable)
[c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0
[c00000000034df84] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x390
[c00000000034f624] hrtimer_interrupt+0x124/0x300
[c00000000002a230] timer_interrupt+0x140/0x320
Git bisects to: commit 4ae8d9aa9f ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck")
This happens since:
- dl_server hrtimer gets enqueued close to cpu offline, when
kthread_park enqueues a fair task.
- CPU goes offline and drmgr removes it from cpu_present_mask.
- hrtimer fires and warning is hit.
Fix it by stopping the dl_server before CPU is marked dead.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com/
[2]: https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/tree/next/src/drmgr
[sshegde: wrote the changelog and tested it]
Fixes: 4ae8d9aa9f ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core scheduler changes:
- Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
(Menglong Dong)
- Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduling:
- Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)
- Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the
warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
Zijlstra)
Misc cleanups & fixes:
- Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)
- Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask()
sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
John reported undesirable behaviour with the dl_server since commit:
cccb45d7c4 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling").
When starving fair tasks on purpose (starting spinning FIFO tasks),
his fair workload, which often goes (briefly) idle, would delay fair
invocations for a second, running one invocation per second was both
unexpected and terribly slow.
The reason this happens is that when dl_se->server_pick_task() returns
NULL, indicating no runnable tasks, it would yield, pushing any later
jobs out a whole period (1 second).
Instead simply stop the server. This should restore behaviour in that
a later wakeup (which restarts the server) will be able to continue
running (subject to the CBS wakeup rules).
Notably, this does not re-introduce the behaviour cccb45d7c4 set
out to solve, any start/stop cycle is naturally throttled by the timer
period (no active cancel).
Fixes: cccb45d7c4 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
John found it was easy to hit lockup warnings when running locktorture
on a 2 CPU VM, which he bisected down to: commit cccb45d7c4
("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling").
While debugging it seems there is a chance where we end up with the
dl_server dequeued, with dl_se->dl_server_active. This causes
dl_server_start() to return without enqueueing the dl_server, thus it
fails to run when RT tasks starve the cpu.
When this happens, dl_server_timer() catches the
'!dl_se->server_has_tasks(dl_se)' case, which then calls
replenish_dl_entity() and dl_server_stopped() and finally return
HRTIMER_NO_RESTART.
This ends in no new timer and also no enqueue, leaving the dl_server
'dead', allowing starvation.
What should have happened is for the bandwidth timer to start the
zero-laxity timer, which in turn would enqueue the dl_server and cause
dl_se->server_pick_task() to be called -- which will stop the
dl_server if no fair tasks are observed for a whole period.
IOW, it is totally irrelevant if there are fair tasks at the moment of
bandwidth refresh.
This removes all dl_se->server_has_tasks() users, so remove the whole
thing.
Fixes: cccb45d7c4 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
When a CPU chooses to call push_dl_task and picks a task to push to
another CPU's runqueue then it will call find_lock_later_rq method
which would take a double lock on both CPUs' runqueues. If one of the
locks aren't readily available, it may lead to dropping the current
runqueue lock and reacquiring both the locks at once. During this window
it is possible that the task is already migrated and is running on some
other CPU. These cases are already handled. However, if the task is
migrated and has already been executed and another CPU is now trying to
wake it up (ttwu) such that it is queued again on the runqeue
(on_rq is 1) and also if the task was run by the same CPU, then the
current checks will pass even though the task was migrated out and is no
longer in the pushable tasks list.
Please go through the original rt change for more details on the issue.
To fix this, after the lock is obtained inside the find_lock_later_rq,
it ensures that the task is still at the head of pushable tasks list.
Also removed some checks that are no longer needed with the addition of
this new check.
However, the new check of pushable tasks list only applies when
find_lock_later_rq is called by push_dl_task. For the other caller i.e.
dl_task_offline_migration, existing checks are used.
Signed-off-by: Harshit Agarwal <harshit@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408045021.3283624-1-harshit@nutanix.com
On CPU offline the kernel stalled with below call trace:
INFO: task kworker/0:1:11 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
cpuhp hold the cpu hotplug lock endless and stalled vmstat_shepherd.
This is because we count nr_running twice on cpuhp enqueuing and failed
the wait condition of cpuhp:
enqueue_task_fair() // pick cpuhp from idle, rq->nr_running = 0
dl_server_start()
[...]
add_nr_running() // rq->nr_running = 1
add_nr_running() // rq->nr_running = 2
[switch to cpuhp, waiting on balance_hotplug_wait()]
rcuwait_wait_event(rq->nr_running == 1 && ...) // failed, rq->nr_running=2
schedule() // wait again
It doesn't make sense to count the dl_server towards runnable tasks,
since it runs other tasks.
Fixes: 63ba8422f8 ("sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers")
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627035420.37712-1-yangyicong@huawei.com
[Symptom]
The fair server mechanism, which is intended to prevent fair starvation
when higher-priority tasks monopolize the CPU.
Specifically, RT tasks on the runqueue may not be scheduled as expected.
[Analysis]
The log "sched: DL replenish lagged too much" triggered.
By memory dump of dl_server:
curr = 0xFFFFFF80D6A0AC00 (
dl_server = 0xFFFFFF83CD5B1470(
dl_runtime = 0x02FAF080,
dl_deadline = 0x3B9ACA00,
dl_period = 0x3B9ACA00,
dl_bw = 0xCCCC,
dl_density = 0xCCCC,
runtime = 0x02FAF080,
deadline = 0x0000082031EB0E80,
flags = 0x0,
dl_throttled = 0x0,
dl_yielded = 0x0,
dl_non_contending = 0x0,
dl_overrun = 0x0,
dl_server = 0x1,
dl_server_active = 0x1,
dl_defer = 0x1,
dl_defer_armed = 0x0,
dl_defer_running = 0x1,
dl_timer = (
node = (
expires = 0x000008199756E700),
_softexpires = 0x000008199756E700,
function = 0xFFFFFFDB9AF44D30 = dl_task_timer,
base = 0xFFFFFF83CD5A12C0,
state = 0x0,
is_rel = 0x0,
is_soft = 0x0,
clock_update_flags = 0x4,
clock = 0x000008204A496900,
- The timer expiration time (rq->curr->dl_server->dl_timer->expires)
is already in the past, indicating the timer has expired.
- The timer state (rq->curr->dl_server->dl_timer->state) is 0.
[Suspected Root Cause]
The relevant code flow in the throttle path of
update_curr_dl_se() as follows:
dequeue_dl_entity(dl_se, 0); // the DL entity is dequeued
if (unlikely(is_dl_boosted(dl_se) || !start_dl_timer(dl_se))) {
if (dl_server(dl_se)) // timer registration fails
enqueue_dl_entity(dl_se, ENQUEUE_REPLENISH);//enqueue immediately
...
}
The failure of `start_dl_timer` is caused by attempting to register a
timer with an expiration time that is already in the past. When this
situation persists, the code repeatedly re-enqueues the DL entity
without properly replenishing or restarting the timer, resulting in RT
task may not be scheduled as expected.
[Proposed Solution]:
Instead of immediately re-enqueuing the DL entity on timer registration
failure, this change ensures the DL entity is properly replenished and
the timer is restarted, preventing RT potential starvation.
Fixes: 63ba8422f8 ("sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers")
Signed-off-by: kuyo chang <kuyo.chang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAMuHMdXn4z1pioTtBGMfQM0jsLviqS2jwysaWXpoLxWYoGa82w@mail.gmail.com
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250615131129.954975-1-kuyo.chang@mediatek.com
Proxy execution forms atomic pairs of tasks: The waiting donor
task (scheduling context) and a proxy (execution context). The
donor task, along with the rest of the blocked chain, follows
the proxy wrt CPU placement.
They can be the same task, in which case push/pull doesn't need any
modification. When they are different, however,
FIFO1 & FIFO42:
,-> RT42
| | blocked-on
| v
blocked_donor | mutex
| | owner
| v
`-- RT1
RT1
RT42
CPU0 CPU1
^ ^
| |
overloaded !overloaded
rq prio = 42 rq prio = 0
RT1 is eligible to be pushed to CPU1, but should that happen it will
"carry" RT42 along. Clearly here neither RT1 nor RT42 must be seen as
push/pullable.
Unfortunately, only the donor task is usually dequeued from the rq,
and the proxy'ed execution context (rq->curr) remains on the rq.
This can cause RT1 to be selected for migration from logic like the
rt pushable_list.
Thus, adda a dequeue/enqueue cycle on the proxy task before __schedule
returns, which allows the sched class logic to avoid adding the now
current task to the pushable_list.
Furthermore, tasks becoming blocked on a mutex don't need an explicit
dequeue/enqueue cycle to be made (push/pull)able: they have to be running
to block on a mutex, thus they will eventually hit put_prev_task().
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250712033407.2383110-8-jstultz@google.com
dl-servers are currently initialized too early at boot when CPUs are not
fully up (only boot CPU is). This results in miscalculation of per
runqueue DEADLINE variables like extra_bw (which needs a stable CPU
count).
Move initialization of dl-servers later on after SMP has been
initialized and CPUs are all online, so that CPU count is stable and
DEADLINE variables can be computed correctly.
Fixes: d741f297bc ("sched/fair: Fair server interface")
Reported-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@codethink.co.uk> # nuc & rock5b
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627115118.438797-2-juri.lelli@redhat.com
