- Improve recovery from misbehaving BPF schedulers. When a scheduler puts many
tasks with varying affinity restrictions on a shared DSQ, CPUs scanning
through tasks they cannot run can overwhelm the system, causing lockups.
Bypass mode now uses per-CPU DSQs with a load balancer to avoid this, and
hooks into the hardlockup detector to attempt recovery. Add scx_cpu0 example
scheduler to demonstrate this scenario.
- Add lockless peek operation for DSQs to reduce lock contention for schedulers
that need to query queue state during load balancing.
- Allow scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() to be called from anywhere in preparation for
deprecating cpu_acquire/release() callbacks in favor of generic BPF hooks.
- Prepare for hierarchical scheduler support: add scx_bpf_task_set_slice() and
scx_bpf_task_set_dsq_vtime() kfuncs, make scx_bpf_dsq_insert*() return bool,
and wrap kfunc args in structs for future aux__prog parameter.
- Implement cgroup_set_idle() callback to notify BPF schedulers when a cgroup's
idle state changes.
- Fix migration tasks being incorrectly downgraded from stop_sched_class to
rt_sched_class across sched_ext enable/disable. Applied late as the fix is
low risk and the bug subtle but needs stable backporting.
- Various fixes and cleanups including cgroup exit ordering, SCX_KICK_WAIT
reliability, and backward compatibility improvements.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:
- Improve recovery from misbehaving BPF schedulers.
When a scheduler puts many tasks with varying affinity restrictions
on a shared DSQ, CPUs scanning through tasks they cannot run can
overwhelm the system, causing lockups.
Bypass mode now uses per-CPU DSQs with a load balancer to avoid this,
and hooks into the hardlockup detector to attempt recovery.
Add scx_cpu0 example scheduler to demonstrate this scenario.
- Add lockless peek operation for DSQs to reduce lock contention for
schedulers that need to query queue state during load balancing.
- Allow scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() to be called from anywhere in
preparation for deprecating cpu_acquire/release() callbacks in favor
of generic BPF hooks.
- Prepare for hierarchical scheduler support: add
scx_bpf_task_set_slice() and scx_bpf_task_set_dsq_vtime() kfuncs,
make scx_bpf_dsq_insert*() return bool, and wrap kfunc args in
structs for future aux__prog parameter.
- Implement cgroup_set_idle() callback to notify BPF schedulers when a
cgroup's idle state changes.
- Fix migration tasks being incorrectly downgraded from
stop_sched_class to rt_sched_class across sched_ext enable/disable.
Applied late as the fix is low risk and the bug subtle but needs
stable backporting.
- Various fixes and cleanups including cgroup exit ordering,
SCX_KICK_WAIT reliability, and backward compatibility improvements.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (44 commits)
sched_ext: Fix incorrect sched_class settings for per-cpu migration tasks
sched_ext: tools: Removing duplicate targets during non-cross compilation
sched_ext: Use kvfree_rcu() to release per-cpu ksyncs object
sched_ext: Pass locked CPU parameter to scx_hardlockup() and add docs
sched_ext: Update comments replacing breather with aborting mechanism
sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode
sched_ext: Factor out abbreviated dispatch dequeue into dispatch_dequeue_locked()
sched_ext: Factor out scx_dsq_list_node cursor initialization into INIT_DSQ_LIST_CURSOR
sched_ext: Add scx_cpu0 example scheduler
sched_ext: Hook up hardlockup detector
sched_ext: Make handle_lockup() propagate scx_verror() result
sched_ext: Refactor lockup handlers into handle_lockup()
sched_ext: Make scx_exit() and scx_vexit() return bool
sched_ext: Exit dispatch and move operations immediately when aborting
sched_ext: Simplify breather mechanism with scx_aborting flag
sched_ext: Use per-CPU DSQs instead of per-node global DSQs in bypass mode
sched_ext: Refactor do_enqueue_task() local and global DSQ paths
sched_ext: Use shorter slice in bypass mode
sched_ext: Mark racy bitfields to prevent adding fields that can't tolerate races
sched_ext: Minor cleanups to scx_task_iter
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