linux/kernel/sched, branch v6.16

Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2025-07-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-07-20T18:08:51Z

Pull scheduler fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single fix for the scheduler. A recent commit changed the runqueue counter nr_uninterruptible to an unsigned int. Due to the fact that the counters are not updated on migration of a uninterruptble task to a different CPU, these counters can exceed INT_MAX. The counter is cast to long in the load average calculation, which means that the cast expands into negative space resulting in bogus load average values. Convert it back to unsigned long to fix this. * tag 'sched-urgent-2025-07-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Change nr_uninterruptible type to unsigned long

Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.16-rc6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

2025-07-19T17:40:30Z

Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo: - Fix handling of migration disabled tasks in default idle selection - update_locked_rq() called __this_cpu_write() spuriously with NULL when @rq was not locked. As the writes were spurious, it didn't break anything directly. However, the function could be called in a preemptible leading to a context warning in __this_cpu_write(). Skip the spurious NULL writes. - Selftest fix on UP * tag 'sched_ext-for-6.16-rc6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: sched_ext: idle: Handle migration-disabled tasks in idle selection sched/ext: Prevent update_locked_rq() calls with NULL rq selftests/sched_ext: Fix exit selftest hang on UP

sched_ext: idle: Handle migration-disabled tasks in idle selection

2025-07-17T18:19:38Z

When SCX_OPS_ENQ_MIGRATION_DISABLED is enabled, migration-disabled tasks are also routed to ops.enqueue(). A scheduler may attempt to dispatch such tasks directly to an idle CPU using the default idle selection policy via scx_bpf_select_cpu_and() or scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl(). This scenario must be properly handled by the built-in idle policy to avoid returning an idle CPU where the target task isn't allowed to run. Otherwise, it can lead to errors such as: EXIT: runtime error (SCX_DSQ_LOCAL[_ON] cannot move migration disabled Chrome_ChildIOT[291646] from CPU 3 to 14) Prevent this by explicitly handling migration-disabled tasks in the built-in idle selection logic, maintaining their CPU affinity. Fixes: a730e3f7a48bc ("sched_ext: idle: Consolidate default idle CPU selection kfuncs") Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

sched/ext: Prevent update_locked_rq() calls with NULL rq

2025-07-17T01:02:12Z

Avoid invoking update_locked_rq() when the runqueue (rq) pointer is NULL in the SCX_CALL_OP and SCX_CALL_OP_RET macros. Previously, calling update_locked_rq(NULL) with preemption enabled could trigger the following warning: BUG: using __this_cpu_write() in preemptible [00000000] This happens because __this_cpu_write() is unsafe to use in preemptible context. rq is NULL when an ops invoked from an unlocked context. In such cases, we don't need to store any rq, since the value should already be NULL (unlocked). Ensure that update_locked_rq() is only called when rq is non-NULL, preventing calling __this_cpu_write() on preemptible context. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Fixes: 18853ba782bef ("sched_ext: Track currently locked rq") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Acked-by: Andrea Righi Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.15

sched: Change nr_uninterruptible type to unsigned long

2025-07-14T08:59:31Z

The commit e6fe3f422be1 ("sched: Make multiple runqueue task counters 32-bit") changed nr_uninterruptible to an unsigned int. But the nr_uninterruptible values for each of the CPU runqueues can grow to large numbers, sometimes exceeding INT_MAX. This is valid, if, over time, a large number of tasks are migrated off of one CPU after going into an uninterruptible state. Only the sum of all nr_interruptible values across all CPUs yields the correct result, as explained in a comment in kernel/sched/loadavg.c. Change the type of nr_uninterruptible back to unsigned long to prevent overflows, and thus the miscalculation of load average. Fixes: e6fe3f422be1 ("sched: Make multiple runqueue task counters 32-bit") Signed-off-by: Aruna Ramakrishna Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250709173328.606794-1-aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com

Revert "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task"

2025-07-10T04:07:56Z

This reverts commit ad6b26b6a0a79166b53209df2ca1cf8636296382. This commit introduces per-memcg/task NUMA balance statistics, but unfortunately it introduced a NULL pointer exception due to the following race condition: After a swap task candidate was chosen, its mm_struct pointer was set to NULL due to task exit. Later, when performing the actual task swapping, the p->mm caused the problem. CPU0 CPU1 : ... task_numa_migrate task_numa_find_cpu task_numa_compare # a normal task p is chosen env->best_task = p # p exit: exit_signals(p); p->flags |= PF_EXITING exit_mm p->mm = NULL; migrate_swap_stop __migrate_swap_task((arg->src_task, arg->dst_cpu) count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP)# p->mm is NULL task_lock() should be held and the PF_EXITING flag needs to be checked to prevent this from happening. After discussion, the conclusion was that adding a lock is not worthwhile for some statistics calculations. Revert the change and rely on the tracepoint for this purpose. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704135620.685752-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708064917.BBD13C4CEED@smtp.kernel.org Fixes: ad6b26b6a0a7 ("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task") Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Reported-by: Jirka Hladky Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGBLJxpd=NeRJXpSCuw=REhC5LWJpC29kDy-Zh2ZDyzQZA@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal Reported-by: Suneeth D Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Hladky Cc: Libo Chen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sched/deadline: Fix dl_server runtime calculation formula

2025-07-04T08:35:56Z

In our testing with 6.12 based kernel on a big.LITTLE system, we were seeing instances of RT tasks being blocked from running on the LITTLE cpus for multiple seconds of time, apparently by the dl_server. This far exceeds the default configured 50ms per second runtime. This is due to the fair dl_server runtime calculation being scaled for frequency & capacity of the cpu. Consider the following case under a Big.LITTLE architecture: Assume the runtime is: 50,000,000 ns, and Frequency/capacity scale-invariance defined as below: Frequency scale-invariance: 100 Capacity scale-invariance: 50 First by Frequency scale-invariance, the runtime is scaled to 50,000,000 * 100 >> 10 = 4,882,812 Then by capacity scale-invariance, it is further scaled to 4,882,812 * 50 >> 10 = 238,418. So it will scaled to 238,418 ns. This smaller "accounted runtime" value is what ends up being subtracted against the fair-server's runtime for the current period. Thus after 50ms of real time, we've only accounted ~238us against the fair servers runtime. This 209:1 ratio in this example means that on the smaller cpu the fair server is allowed to continue running, blocking RT tasks, for over 10 seconds before it exhausts its supposed 50ms of runtime. And on other hardware configurations it can be even worse. For the fair deadline_server, to prevent realtime tasks from being unexpectedly delayed, we really do want to use fixed time, and not scaled time for smaller capacity/frequency cpus. So remove the scaling from the fair server's accounting to fix this. Fixes: a110a81c52a9 ("sched/deadline: Deferrable dl server") Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Suggested-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: kuyo chang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Juri Lelli Acked-by: John Stultz Tested-by: John Stultz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702021440.2594736-1-kuyo.chang@mediatek.com

sched/core: Fix migrate_swap() vs. hotplug

2025-07-01T13:02:03Z

On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 03:22:13PM +0800, Kuyo Chang wrote: > So, the potential race scenario is: > > CPU0 CPU1 > // doing migrate_swap(cpu0/cpu1) > stop_two_cpus() > ... > // doing _cpu_down() > sched_cpu_deactivate() > set_cpu_active(cpu, false); > balance_push_set(cpu, true); > cpu_stop_queue_two_works > __cpu_stop_queue_work(stopper1,...); > __cpu_stop_queue_work(stopper2,..); > stop_cpus_in_progress -> true > preempt_enable(); > ... > 1st balance_push > stop_one_cpu_nowait > cpu_stop_queue_work > __cpu_stop_queue_work > list_add_tail -> 1st add push_work > wake_up_q(&wakeq); -> "wakeq is empty. > This implies that the stopper is at wakeq@migrate_swap." > preempt_disable > wake_up_q(&wakeq); > wake_up_process // wakeup migrate/0 > try_to_wake_up > ttwu_queue > ttwu_queue_cond ->meet below case > if (cpu == smp_processor_id()) > return false; > ttwu_do_activate > //migrate/0 wakeup done > wake_up_process // wakeup migrate/1 > try_to_wake_up > ttwu_queue > ttwu_queue_cond > ttwu_queue_wakelist > __ttwu_queue_wakelist > __smp_call_single_queue > preempt_enable(); > > 2nd balance_push > stop_one_cpu_nowait > cpu_stop_queue_work > __cpu_stop_queue_work > list_add_tail -> 2nd add push_work, so the double list add is detected > ... > ... > cpu1 get ipi, do sched_ttwu_pending, wakeup migrate/1 > So this balance_push() is part of schedule(), and schedule() is supposed to switch to stopper task, but because of this race condition, stopper task is stuck in WAKING state and not actually visible to be picked. Therefore CPU1 can do another schedule() and end up doing another balance_push() even though the last one hasn't been done yet. This is a confluence of fail, where both wake_q and ttwu_wakelist can cause crucial wakeups to be delayed, resulting in the malfunction of balance_push. Since there is only a single stopper thread to be woken, the wake_q doesn't really add anything here, and can be removed in favour of direct wakeups of the stopper thread. Then add a clause to ttwu_queue_cond() to ensure the stopper threads are never queued / delayed. Of all 3 moving parts, the last addition was the balance_push() machinery, so pick that as the point the bug was introduced. Fixes: 2558aacff858 ("sched/hotplug: Ensure only per-cpu kthreads run during hotplug") Reported-by: Kuyo Chang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Kuyo Chang Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605100009.GO39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

sched: Fix preemption string of preempt_dynamic_none

2025-07-01T13:02:02Z

Zero is a valid value for "preempt_dynamic_mode", namely "preempt_dynamic_none". Fix the off-by-one in preempt_model_str(), so that "preempty_dynamic_none" is correctly formatted as PREEMPT(none) instead of PREEMPT(undef). Fixes: 8bdc5daaa01e ("sched: Add a generic function to return the preemption string") Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250626-preempt-str-none-v2-1-526213b70a89@linutronix.de

sched_ext, sched/core: Don't call scx_group_set_weight() prematurely from sched_create_group()

2025-06-17T18:19:55Z

During task_group creation, sched_create_group() calls scx_group_set_weight() with CGROUP_WEIGHT_DFL to initialize the sched_ext portion. This is premature and ends up calling ops.cgroup_set_weight() with an incorrect @cgrp before ops.cgroup_init() is called. sched_create_group() should just initialize SCX related fields in the new task_group. Fix it by factoring out scx_tg_init() from sched_init() and making sched_create_group() call that function instead of scx_group_set_weight(). v2: Retain CONFIG_EXT_GROUP_SCHED ifdef in sched_init() as removing it leads to build failures on !CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED configs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Fixes: 819513666966 ("sched_ext: Add cgroup support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+