Running stress-ng --schedpolicy 0 on an RT kernel on a big machine
might lead to the following WARNINGs (edited).
sched: DL de-boosted task PID 22725: REPLENISH flag missing
WARNING: CPU: 93 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/deadline.c:239 dequeue_task_dl+0x15c/0x1f8
... (running_bw underflow)
Call trace:
dequeue_task_dl+0x15c/0x1f8 (P)
dequeue_task+0x80/0x168
deactivate_task+0x24/0x50
push_dl_task+0x264/0x2e0
dl_task_timer+0x1b0/0x228
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x188/0x378
hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x260
...
The problem is that when a SCHED_DEADLINE task (lock holder) is
changed to a lower priority class via sched_setscheduler(), it may
fail to properly inherit the parameters of potential DEADLINE donors
if it didn't already inherit them in the past (shorter deadline than
donor's at that time). This might lead to bandwidth accounting
corruption, as enqueue_task_dl() won't recognize the lock holder as
boosted.
The scenario occurs when:
1. A DEADLINE task (donor) blocks on a PI mutex held by another
DEADLINE task (holder), but the holder doesn't inherit parameters
(e.g., it already has a shorter deadline)
2. sched_setscheduler() changes the holder from DEADLINE to a lower
class while still holding the mutex
3. The holder should now inherit DEADLINE parameters from the donor
and be enqueued with ENQUEUE_REPLENISH, but this doesn't happen
Fix the issue by introducing __setscheduler_dl_pi(), which detects when
a DEADLINE (proper or boosted) task gets setscheduled to a lower
priority class. In case, the function makes the task inherit DEADLINE
parameters of the donoer (pi_se) and sets ENQUEUE_REPLENISH flag to
ensure proper bandwidth accounting during the next enqueue operation.
Fixes: 2279f540ea ("sched/deadline: Fix priority inheritance with multiple scheduling classes")
Reported-by: Bruno Goncalves <bgoncalv@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302-upstream-fix-deadline-piboost-b4-v3-1-6ba32184a9e0@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
A fix for the dl_server 'requires' idle_cpu() usage, which made me
note that it and available_idle_cpu() are extern function calls.
And while idle_cpu() is used outside of kernel/sched/,
available_idle_cpu() is not.
This makes it hard to make idle_cpu() an inline helper, so provide
idle_rq() and implement idle_cpu() and available_idle_cpu() using
that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for the interrupt core and treewide cleanups:
- Rework of the Per Processor Interrupt (PPI) management on ARM[64]
PPI support was built under the assumption that the systems are
homogenous so that the same CPU local device types are connected to
them. That's unfortunately wishful thinking and created horrible
workarounds.
This rework provides affinity management for PPIs so that they can
be individually configured in the firmware tables and mops up the
related drivers all over the place.
- Prevent CPUSET/isolation changes to arbitrarily affine interrupt
threads to random CPUs, which ignores user or driver settings.
- Plug a harmless race in the interrupt affinity proc interface,
which allows to see a half updated mask
- Adjust the priority of secondary interrupt threads on RT, so that
the combination of primary and secondary thread emulates the
hardware interrupt plus thread scenario. Having them at the same
priority can cause starvation issues in some drivers"
* tag 'irq-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
genirq: Remove cpumask availability check on kthread affinity setting
genirq: Fix interrupt threads affinity vs. cpuset isolated partitions
genirq: Prevent early spurious wake-ups of interrupt threads
genirq: Use raw_spinlock_irq() in irq_set_affinity_notifier()
genirq/manage: Reduce priority of forced secondary interrupt handler
genirq/proc: Fix race in show_irq_affinity()
genirq: Fix percpu_devid irq affinity documentation
perf: arm_pmu: Kill last use of per-CPU cpu_armpmu pointer
irqdomain: Kill of_node_to_fwnode() helper
genirq: Kill irq_{g,s}et_percpu_devid_partition()
irqchip: Kill irq-partition-percpu
irqchip/apple-aic: Drop support for custom PMU irq partitions
irqchip/gic-v3: Drop support for custom PPI partitions
coresight: trbe: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts
perf: arm_spe_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts
perf: arm_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU NMIs/interrupts
genirq: Add request_percpu_irq_affinity() helper
genirq: Allow per-cpu interrupt sharing for non-overlapping affinities
genirq: Update request_percpu_nmi() to take an affinity
genirq: Add affinity to percpu_devid interrupt requests
...
Crystal reports that the PCIe Advanced Error Reporting driver gets stuck
in an infinite loop on PREEMPT_RT:
Both the primary interrupt handler aer_irq() as well as the secondary
handler aer_isr() are forced into threads with identical priority.
Crystal writes that on the ARM system in question, the primary handler
has to clear an error in the Root Error Status register...
"before the next error happens, or else the hardware will set the
Multiple ERR_COR Received bit. If that bit is set, then aer_isr()
can't rely on the Error Source Identification register, so it scans
through all devices looking for errors -- and for some reason, on
this system, accessing the AER registers (or any Config Space above
0x400, even though there are capabilities located there) generates
an Unsupported Request Error (but returns valid data). Since this
happens more than once, without aer_irq() preempting, it causes
another multi error and we get stuck in a loop."
The issue does not show on non-PREEMPT_RT because the primary handler
runs in hardirq context and thus can preempt the threaded secondary
handler, clear the Root Error Status register and prevent the secondary
handler from getting stuck.
Emulate the same behavior on PREEMPT_RT by assigning a lower default
priority to the secondary handler if the primary handler is forced into
a thread.
Reported-by: Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f6dcdb41be2694886b8dbf4fe7b3ab89e9d5114c.1761569303.git.lukas@wunner.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250902224441.368483-1-crwood@redhat.com/
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>
Add {DE,EN}QUEUE_CLASS and fold the sched_class::switch* methods into
the change pattern. This completes and makes the pattern more
symmetric.
This changes the order of callbacks slightly:
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, it moves the switched_from() callback right after the
dequeue/put. Existing implementations don't appear to be affected by
this change in location -- specifically the task isn't enqueued on the
class in question in either location.
Make (CLASS)^(SAVE|MOVE), because there is nothing to save-restore
when changing scheduling classes.
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>
When RT_GROUPs are compiled but not exposed, their bandwidth cannot
be configured (and it is not initialized for non-root task_groups neither).
Therefore bypass any checks of task vs task_group bandwidth.
This will achieve behavior very similar to setups that have
!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED and attach cpu controller to cgroup v2 hierarchy.
(On a related note, this may allow having RT tasks with
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED and cgroup v2 hierarchy.)
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310170442.504716-7-mkoutny@suse.com
Convert the blocks guarded by macros to regular code so that the RT
group code gets more compile validation. Reasoning is in
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst 21) Conditional Compilation.
With that, no functional change is expected.
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310170442.504716-2-mkoutny@suse.com
Repeat calls of static_branch_enable() to an already enabled
static key introduce overhead, because it calls cpus_read_lock().
Users may frequently set the uclamp value of tasks, triggering
the repeat enabling of the sched_uclamp_used static key.
Optimize this and avoid repeat calls to static_branch_enable()
by checking whether it's enabled already.
[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog for legibility ]
Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219093747.2612-2-xuewen.yan@unisoc.com
Adding an unlikely() hint on early error return paths improves the
run-time performance of several sched related system calls.
Benchmarking on an i9-12900 shows the following per system call
performance improvements:
before after improvement
sched_getattr 182.4ns 170.6ns ~6.5%
sched_setattr 284.3ns 267.6ns ~5.9%
sched_getparam 161.6ns 148.1ns ~8.4%
sched_setparam 1265.4ns 1227.6ns ~3.0%
sched_getscheduler 129.4ns 118.2ns ~8.7%
sched_setscheduler 1237.3ns 1216.7ns ~1.7%
Results are based on running 20 tests with turbo disabled (to reduce
clock freq turbo changes), with 10 second run per test based on the
number of system calls per second. The % standard deviation of the
measurements for the 20 tests was 0.05% to 0.40%, so the results are
reliable.
Tested on kernel build with gcc 14.2.1
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219142423.45516-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com
We met a SCHED_WARN in set_next_buddy():
__warn_printk
set_next_buddy
yield_to_task_fair
yield_to
kvm_vcpu_yield_to [kvm]
...
After a short dig, we found the rq_lock held by yield_to() may not
be exactly the rq that the target task belongs to. There is a race
window against try_to_wake_up().
CPU0 target_task
blocking on CPU1
lock rq0 & rq1
double check task_rq == p_rq, ok
woken to CPU2 (lock task_pi & rq2)
task_rq = rq2
yield_to_task_fair (w/o lock rq2)
In this race window, yield_to() is operating the task w/o the correct
lock. Fix this by taking task pi_lock first.
Fixes: d95f412200 ("sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality")
Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241231055020.6521-1-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com
Commit 8f9ea86fdf added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included
a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update.
Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the
task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we
have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN
set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with
the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its
trivial to create this condition.
Reproduced the warning by the following setup:
- $PID inside a cpuset cgroup
- another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1
- another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2
Fixes: 8f9ea86fdf ("sched: Always preserve the user requested cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-and-tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241111182738.1832953-1-joshdon@google.com
Ingo Molnar
Juri LelliandPeter Zijlstra
Tommaso CucinottaandPeter Zijlstra
Linus Torvalds
Fernand SieberandPeter Zijlstra
Lukas WunnerandThomas Gleixner
Michal KoutnýandPeter Zijlstra
Xuewen YanandIngo Molnar
Colin Ian KingandPeter Zijlstra
Christian LoehleandRafael J. Wysocki
Vincent GuittotandPeter Zijlstra
Tianchen DingandPeter Zijlstra
Josh DonandPeter Zijlstra