As discussed during the distro-centric session within the sched_ext
Microconference at LPC 2024, introduce a sequence counter that is
incremented every time a BPF scheduler is loaded.
This feature can help distributions in diagnosing potential performance
regressions by identifying systems where users are running (or have ran)
custom BPF schedulers.
Example:
arighi@virtme-ng~> cat /sys/kernel/sched_ext/enable_seq
0
arighi@virtme-ng~> sudo scx_simple
local=1 global=0
^CEXIT: unregistered from user space
arighi@virtme-ng~> cat /sys/kernel/sched_ext/enable_seq
1
In this way user-space tools (such as Ubuntu's apport and similar) are
able to gather and include this information in bug reports.
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <giovanni.gherdovich@suse.com>
Cc: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Cc: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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