linux.git/kernel/sched/core.c, branch v6.1.168

sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

2026-01-11T14:19:26+00:00

commit 33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17 upstream.

Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to
its success rate.

This improves schbench significantly:

 6.18-rc4:			2.22 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert:		2.04 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert+random:	2.18 Mrps/S

Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%:

 6.17:			-6%
 6.17+revert:		 0%
 6.17+revert+random:	-1%

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann 
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann 
Tested-by: Chris Mason 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.1 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Clarify wake_up_q()'s write to task->wake_q.next

2025-03-28T20:58:51+00:00

[ Upstream commit bcc6244e13b4d4903511a1ea84368abf925031c0 ]

Clarify that wake_up_q() does an atomic write to task->wake_q.next, after
which a concurrent __wake_q_add() can immediately overwrite
task->wake_q.next again.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129-sched-wakeup-prettier-v1-1-2f51f5f663fa@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

hrtimer: Use and report correct timerslack values for realtime tasks

2025-03-28T20:58:48+00:00

commit ed4fb6d7ef68111bb539283561953e5c6e9a6e38 upstream.

The timerslack_ns setting is used to specify how much the hardware
timers should be delayed, to potentially dispatch multiple timers in a
single interrupt. This is a performance optimization. Timers of
realtime tasks (having a realtime scheduling policy) should not be
delayed.

This logic was inconsitently applied to the hrtimers, leading to delays
of realtime tasks which used timed waits for events (e.g. condition
variables). Due to the downstream override of the slack for rt tasks,
the procfs reported incorrect (non-zero) timerslack_ns values.

This is changed by setting the timer_slack_ns task attribute to 0 for
all tasks with a rt policy. By that, downstream users do not need to
specially handle rt tasks (w.r.t. the slack), and the procfs entry
shows the correct value of "0". Setting non-zero slack values (either
via procfs or PR_SET_TIMERSLACK) on tasks with a rt policy is ignored,
as stated in "man 2 PR_SET_TIMERSLACK":

  Timer slack is not applied to threads that are scheduled under a
  real-time scheduling policy (see sched_setscheduler(2)).

The special handling of timerslack on rt tasks in downstream users
is removed as well.

Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814121032.368444-2-felix.moessbauer@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/core: Prevent rescheduling when interrupts are disabled

2025-03-07T15:56:50+00:00

commit 82c387ef7568c0d96a918a5a78d9cad6256cfa15 upstream.

David reported a warning observed while loop testing kexec jump:

  Interrupts enabled after irqrouter_resume+0x0/0x50
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 560 at drivers/base/syscore.c:103 syscore_resume+0x18a/0x220
   kernel_kexec+0xf6/0x180
   __do_sys_reboot+0x206/0x250
   do_syscall_64+0x95/0x180

The corresponding interrupt flag trace:

  hardirqs last  enabled at (15573): [] __up_console_sem+0x7e/0x90
  hardirqs last disabled at (15580): [] __up_console_sem+0x63/0x90

That means __up_console_sem() was invoked with interrupts enabled. Further
instrumentation revealed that in the interrupt disabled section of kexec
jump one of the syscore_suspend() callbacks woke up a task, which set the
NEED_RESCHED flag. A later callback in the resume path invoked
cond_resched() which in turn led to the invocation of the scheduler:

  __cond_resched+0x21/0x60
  down_timeout+0x18/0x60
  acpi_os_wait_semaphore+0x4c/0x80
  acpi_ut_acquire_mutex+0x3d/0x100
  acpi_ns_get_node+0x27/0x60
  acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1cb/0x2d0
  acpi_rs_set_srs_method_data+0x156/0x190
  acpi_pci_link_set+0x11c/0x290
  irqrouter_resume+0x54/0x60
  syscore_resume+0x6a/0x200
  kernel_kexec+0x145/0x1c0
  __do_sys_reboot+0xeb/0x240
  do_syscall_64+0x95/0x180

This is a long standing problem, which probably got more visible with
the recent printk changes. Something does a task wakeup and the
scheduler sets the NEED_RESCHED flag. cond_resched() sees it set and
invokes schedule() from a completely bogus context. The scheduler
enables interrupts after context switching, which causes the above
warning at the end.

Quite some of the code paths in syscore_suspend()/resume() can result in
triggering a wakeup with the exactly same consequences. They might not
have done so yet, but as they share a lot of code with normal operations
it's just a question of time.

The problem only affects the PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY scheduling
models. Full preemption is not affected as cond_resched() is disabled and
the preemption check preemptible() takes the interrupt disabled flag into
account.

Cure the problem by adding a corresponding check into cond_resched().

Reported-by: David Woodhouse 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7717fe2ac0ce5f0a2c43fdab8b11f4483d54a2a4.camel@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Don't try to catch up excess steal time.

2025-02-21T12:49:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit 108ad0999085df2366dd9ef437573955cb3f5586 ]

When steal time exceeds the measured delta when updating clock_task, we
currently try to catch up the excess in future updates.
However, this results in inaccurate run times for the future things using
clock_task, in some situations, as they end up getting additional steal
time that did not actually happen.
This is because there is a window between reading the elapsed time in
update_rq_clock() and sampling the steal time in update_rq_clock_task().
If the VCPU gets preempted between those two points, any additional
steal time is accounted to the outgoing task even though the calculated
delta did not actually contain any of that "stolen" time.
When this race happens, we can end up with steal time that exceeds the
calculated delta, and the previous code would try to catch up that excess
steal time in future clock updates, which is given to the next,
incoming task, even though it did not actually have any time stolen.

This behavior is particularly bad when steal time can be very long,
which we've seen when trying to extend steal time to contain the duration
that the host was suspended [0]. When this happens, clock_task stays
frozen, during which the running task stays running for the whole
duration, since its run time doesn't increase.
However the race can happen even under normal operation.

Ideally we would read the elapsed cpu time and the steal time atomically,
to prevent this race from happening in the first place, but doing so
is non-trivial.

Since the time between those two points isn't otherwise accounted anywhere,
neither to the outgoing task nor the incoming task (because the "end of
outgoing task" and "start of incoming task" timestamps are the same),
I would argue that the right thing to do is to simply drop any excess steal
time, in order to prevent these issues.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240820043543.837914-1-suleiman@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241118043745.1857272-1-suleiman@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/psi: Use task->psi_flags to clear in CPU migration

2025-02-21T12:48:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit 52b33d87b9197c51e8ffdc61873739d90dd0a16f ]

The commit d583d360a620 ("psi: Fix psi state corruption when schedule()
races with cgroup move") fixed a race problem by making cgroup_move_task()
use task->psi_flags instead of looking at the scheduler state.

We can extend task->psi_flags usage to CPU migration, which should be
a minor optimization for performance and code simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926081931.45420-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com
Stable-dep-of: a430d99e3490 ("sched/fair: Fix value reported by hot tasks pulled in /proc/schedstat")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/core: Prevent wakeup of ksoftirqd during idle load balance

2024-12-14T18:54:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit e932c4ab38f072ce5894b2851fea8bc5754bb8e5 ]

Scheduler raises a SCHED_SOFTIRQ to trigger a load balancing event on
from the IPI handler on the idle CPU. If the SMP function is invoked
from an idle CPU via flush_smp_call_function_queue() then the HARD-IRQ
flag is not set and raise_softirq_irqoff() needlessly wakes ksoftirqd
because soft interrupts are handled before ksoftirqd get on the CPU.

Adding a trace_printk() in nohz_csd_func() at the spot of raising
SCHED_SOFTIRQ and enabling trace events for sched_switch, sched_wakeup,
and softirq_entry (for SCHED_SOFTIRQ vector alone) helps observing the
current behavior:

       -0   [000] dN.1.:  nohz_csd_func: Raising SCHED_SOFTIRQ from nohz_csd_func
       -0   [000] dN.4.:  sched_wakeup: comm=ksoftirqd/0 pid=16 prio=120 target_cpu=000
       -0   [000] .Ns1.:  softirq_entry: vec=7 [action=SCHED]
       -0   [000] .Ns1.:  softirq_exit: vec=7  [action=SCHED]
       -0   [000] d..2.:  sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=ksoftirqd/0 next_pid=16 next_prio=120
  ksoftirqd/0-16  [000] d..2.:  sched_switch: prev_comm=ksoftirqd/0 prev_pid=16 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
       ...

Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq. The SMP function call
is always invoked on the requested CPU in an interrupt handler. It is
guaranteed that soft interrupts are handled at the end.

Following are the observations with the changes when enabling the same
set of events:

       -0       [000] dN.1.: nohz_csd_func: Raising SCHED_SOFTIRQ for nohz_idle_balance
       -0       [000] dN.1.: softirq_raise: vec=7 [action=SCHED]
       -0       [000] .Ns1.: softirq_entry: vec=7 [action=SCHED]

No unnecessary ksoftirqd wakeups are seen from idle task's context to
service the softirq.

Fixes: b2a02fc43a1f ("smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fcf823f-195e-6c9a-eac3-25f870cb35ac@inria.fr/ [1]
Reported-by: Julia Lawall 
Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119054432.6405-5-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/core: Remove the unnecessary need_resched() check in nohz_csd_func()

2024-12-14T18:54:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit ea9cffc0a154124821531991d5afdd7e8b20d7aa ]

The need_resched() check currently in nohz_csd_func() can be tracked
to have been added in scheduler_ipi() back in 2011 via commit
ca38062e57e9 ("sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance")

Since then, it has travelled quite a bit but it seems like an idle_cpu()
check currently is sufficient to detect the need to bail out from an
idle load balancing. To justify this removal, consider all the following
case where an idle load balancing could race with a task wakeup:

o Since commit f3dd3f674555b ("sched: Remove the limitation of WF_ON_CPU
  on wakelist if wakee cpu is idle") a target perceived to be idle
  (target_rq->nr_running == 0) will return true for
  ttwu_queue_cond(target) which will offload the task wakeup to the idle
  target via an IPI.

  In all such cases target_rq->ttwu_pending will be set to 1 before
  queuing the wake function.

  If an idle load balance races here, following scenarios are possible:

  - The CPU is not in TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG mode in which case an actual
    IPI is sent to the CPU to wake it out of idle. If the
    nohz_csd_func() queues before sched_ttwu_pending(), the idle load
    balance will bail out since idle_cpu(target) returns 0 since
    target_rq->ttwu_pending is 1. If the nohz_csd_func() is queued after
    sched_ttwu_pending() it should see rq->nr_running to be non-zero and
    bail out of idle load balancing.

  - The CPU is in TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG mode and instead of an actual IPI,
    the sender will simply set TIF_NEED_RESCHED for the target to put it
    out of idle and flush_smp_call_function_queue() in do_idle() will
    execute the call function. Depending on the ordering of the queuing
    of nohz_csd_func() and sched_ttwu_pending(), the idle_cpu() check in
    nohz_csd_func() should either see target_rq->ttwu_pending = 1 or
    target_rq->nr_running to be non-zero if there is a genuine task
    wakeup racing with the idle load balance kick.

o The waker CPU perceives the target CPU to be busy
  (targer_rq->nr_running != 0) but the CPU is in fact going idle and due
  to a series of unfortunate events, the system reaches a case where the
  waker CPU decides to perform the wakeup by itself in ttwu_queue() on
  the target CPU but target is concurrently selected for idle load
  balance (XXX: Can this happen? I'm not sure, but we'll consider the
  mother of all coincidences to estimate the worst case scenario).

  ttwu_do_activate() calls enqueue_task() which would increment
  "rq->nr_running" post which it calls wakeup_preempt() which is
  responsible for setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED (via a resched IPI or by
  setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED on a TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG idle CPU) The key
  thing to note in this case is that rq->nr_running is already non-zero
  in case of a wakeup before TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set which would
  lead to idle_cpu() check returning false.

In all cases, it seems that need_resched() check is unnecessary when
checking for idle_cpu() first since an impending wakeup racing with idle
load balancer will either set the "rq->ttwu_pending" or indicate a newly
woken task via "rq->nr_running".

Chasing the reason why this check might have existed in the first place,
I came across  Peter's suggestion on the fist iteration of Suresh's
patch from 2011 [1] where the condition to raise the SCHED_SOFTIRQ was:

	sched_ttwu_do_pending(list);

	if (unlikely((rq->idle == current) &&
	    rq->nohz_balance_kick &&
	    !need_resched()))
		raise_softirq_irqoff(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);

Since the condition to raise the SCHED_SOFIRQ was preceded by
sched_ttwu_do_pending() (which is equivalent of sched_ttwu_pending()) in
the current upstream kernel, the need_resched() check was necessary to
catch a newly queued task. Peter suggested modifying it to:

	if (idle_cpu() && rq->nohz_balance_kick && !need_resched())
		raise_softirq_irqoff(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);

where idle_cpu() seems to have replaced "rq->idle == current" check.

Even back then, the idle_cpu() check would have been sufficient to catch
a new task being enqueued. Since commit b2a02fc43a1f ("smp: Optimize
send_call_function_single_ipi()") overloads the interpretation of
TIF_NEED_RESCHED for TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG idling, remove the
need_resched() check in nohz_csd_func() to raise SCHED_SOFTIRQ based
on Peter's suggestion.

Fixes: b2a02fc43a1f ("smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119054432.6405-3-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/smt: Fix unbalance sched_smt_present dec/inc

2024-08-14T11:53:00+00:00

commit e22f910a26cc2a3ac9c66b8e935ef2a7dd881117 upstream.

I got the following warn report while doing stress test:

jump label: negative count!
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 38 at kernel/jump_label.c:263 static_key_slow_try_dec+0x9d/0xb0
Call Trace:
 
 __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked+0x16/0x70
 sched_cpu_deactivate+0x26e/0x2a0
 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x3ad/0x10d0
 cpuhp_thread_fun+0x3f5/0x680
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x56d/0x8d0
 kthread+0x309/0x400
 ret_from_fork+0x41/0x70
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 

Because when cpuset_cpu_inactive() fails in sched_cpu_deactivate(),
the cpu offline failed, but sched_smt_present is decremented before
calling sched_cpu_deactivate(), it leads to unbalanced dec/inc, so
fix it by incrementing sched_smt_present in the error path.

Fixes: c5511d03ec09 ("sched/smt: Make sched_smt_present track topology")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu 
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703031610.587047-3-yangyingliang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/smt: Introduce sched_smt_present_inc/dec() helper

2024-08-14T11:52:59+00:00

commit 31b164e2e4af84d08d2498083676e7eeaa102493 upstream.

Introduce sched_smt_present_inc/dec() helper, so it can be called
in normal or error path simply. No functional changed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703031610.587047-2-yangyingliang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman