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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