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

sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu()

2026-03-04T12:19:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 94894c9c477e53bcea052e075c53f89df3d2a33e ]

CPU0 becomes overloaded when hosting a CPU-bound RT task, a non-CPU-bound
RT task, and a CFS task stuck in kernel space. When other CPUs switch from
RT to non-RT tasks, RT load balancing (LB) is triggered; with
HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI enabled, they send IPIs to CPU0 to drive the execution
of rto_push_irq_work_func. During push_rt_task on CPU0,
if next_task->prio < rq->donor->prio, resched_curr() sets NEED_RESCHED
and after the push operation completes, CPU0 calls rto_next_cpu().
Since only CPU0 is overloaded in this scenario, rto_next_cpu() should
ideally return -1 (no further IPI needed).

However, multiple CPUs invoking tell_cpu_to_push() during LB increments
rd->rto_loop_next. Even when rd->rto_cpu is set to -1, the mismatch between
rd->rto_loop and rd->rto_loop_next forces rto_next_cpu() to restart its
search from -1. With CPU0 remaining overloaded (satisfying rt_nr_migratory
&& rt_nr_total > 1), it gets reselected, causing CPU0 to queue irq_work to
itself and send self-IPIs repeatedly. As long as CPU0 stays overloaded and
other CPUs run pull_rt_tasks(), it falls into an infinite self-IPI loop,
which triggers a CPU hardlockup due to continuous self-interrupts.

The trigging scenario is as follows:

         cpu0                      cpu1                    cpu2
                                pull_rt_task
                              tell_cpu_to_push
                 <------------irq_work_queue_on
rto_push_irq_work_func
       push_rt_task
    resched_curr(rq)                                   pull_rt_task
    rto_next_cpu                                     tell_cpu_to_push
                      <-------------------------- atomic_inc(rto_loop_next)
rd->rto_loop != next
     rto_next_cpu
   irq_work_queue_on
rto_push_irq_work_func

Fix redundant self-IPI by filtering the initiating CPU in rto_next_cpu().
This solution has been verified to effectively eliminate spurious self-IPIs
and prevent CPU hardlockup scenarios.

Fixes: 4bdced5c9a29 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak 
Signed-off-by: Chen Jinghuang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122012533.673768-1-chenjinghuang2@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/rt: sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice show default timeslice after reset

2024-03-01T12:26:24+00:00

commit c1fc6484e1fb7cc2481d169bfef129a1b0676abe upstream.

The sched_rr_timeslice can be reset to default by writing value that is
<= 0. However after reading from this file we always got the last value
written, which is not useful at all.

$ echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
-1

Fix this by setting the variable that holds the sysctl file value to the
jiffies_to_msecs(RR_TIMESLICE) in case that <= 0 value was written.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Tested-by: Petr Vorel 
Cc: Mahmoud Adam 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802151906.25258-3-chrubis@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us

2024-03-01T12:26:24+00:00

commit 079be8fc630943d9fc70a97807feb73d169ee3fc upstream.

The validation of the value written to sched_rt_period_us was broken
because:

  - the sysclt_sched_rt_period is declared as unsigned int
  - parsed by proc_do_intvec()
  - the range is asserted after the value parsed by proc_do_intvec()

Because of this negative values written to the file were written into a
unsigned integer that were later on interpreted as large positive
integers which did passed the check:

  if (sysclt_sched_rt_period <= 0)
	return EINVAL;

This commit fixes the parsing by setting explicit range for both
perid_us and runtime_us into the sched_rt_sysctls table and processes
the values with proc_dointvec_minmax() instead.

Alternatively if we wanted to use full range of unsigned int for the
period value we would have to split the proc_handler and use
proc_douintvec() for it however even the
Documentation/scheduller/sched-rt-group.rst describes the range as 1 to
INT_MAX.

As far as I can tell the only problem this causes is that the sysctl
file allows writing negative values which when read back may confuse
userspace.

There is also a LTP test being submitted for these sysctl files at:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/20230901144433.2526-1-chrubis@suse.cz/

Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115553.3007-2-chrubis@suse.cz
Cc: Mahmoud Adam 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix stop_one_cpu_nowait() vs hotplug

2023-11-20T10:51:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit f0498d2a54e7966ce23cd7c7ff42c64fa0059b07 ]

Kuyo reported sporadic failures on a sched_setaffinity() vs CPU
hotplug stress-test -- notably affine_move_task() remains stuck in
wait_for_completion(), leading to a hung-task detector warning.

Specifically, it was reported that stop_one_cpu_nowait(.fn =
migration_cpu_stop) returns false -- this stopper is responsible for
the matching complete().

The race scenario is:

	CPU0					CPU1

					// doing _cpu_down()

  __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
    task_rq_lock();
					takedown_cpu()
					  stop_machine_cpuslocked(take_cpu_down..)

					
    ack_state()
					  MULTI_STOP_RUN
					    take_cpu_down()
					      __cpu_disable();
					      stop_machine_park();
						stopper->enabled = false;
					 />
   />
	stop_one_cpu_nowait(.fn = migration_cpu_stop);
          if (stopper->enabled) // false!!!

That is, by doing stop_one_cpu_nowait() after dropping rq-lock, the
stopper thread gets a chance to preempt and allows the cpu-down for
the target CPU to complete.

OTOH, since stop_one_cpu_nowait() / cpu_stop_queue_work() needs to
issue a wakeup, it must not be ran under the scheduler locks.

Solve this apparent contradiction by keeping preemption disabled over
the unlock + queue_stopper combination:

	preempt_disable();
	task_rq_unlock(...);
	if (!stop_pending)
	  stop_one_cpu_nowait(...)
	preempt_enable();

This respects the lock ordering contraints while still avoiding the
above race. That is, if we find the CPU is online under rq-lock, the
targeted stop_one_cpu_nowait() must succeed.

Apply this pattern to all similar stop_one_cpu_nowait() invocations.

Fixes: 6d337eab041d ("sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs set_cpus_allowed_ptr()")
Reported-by: "Kuyo Chang (張建文)" 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: "Kuyo Chang (張建文)" 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231010200442.GA16515@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/rt: Fix sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice intial value

2023-09-13T07:42:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit c7fcb99877f9f542c918509b2801065adcaf46fa ]

There is a 10% rounding error in the intial value of the
sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice with CONFIG_HZ_300=y.

This was found with LTP test sched_rr_get_interval01:

sched_rr_get_interval01.c:57: TPASS: sched_rr_get_interval() passed
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:64: TPASS: Time quantum 0s 99999990ns
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:72: TFAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms != 100 got 90
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:57: TPASS: sched_rr_get_interval() passed
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:64: TPASS: Time quantum 0s 99999990ns
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:72: TFAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms != 100 got 90

What this test does is to compare the return value from the
sched_rr_get_interval() and the sched_rr_timeslice_ms sysctl file and
fails if they do not match.

The problem it found is the intial sysctl file value which was computed as:

static int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * RR_TIMESLICE;

which works fine as long as MSEC_PER_SEC is multiple of HZ, however it
introduces 10% rounding error for CONFIG_HZ_300:

(MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * (100 * HZ / 1000)

(1000 / 300) * (100 * 300 / 1000)

3 * 30 = 90

This can be easily fixed by reversing the order of the multiplication
and division. After this fix we get:

(MSEC_PER_SEC * (100 * HZ / 1000)) / HZ

(1000 * (100 * 300 / 1000)) / 300

(1000 * 30) / 300 = 100

Fixes: 975e155ed873 ("sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Tested-by: Petr Vorel 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802151906.25258-2-chrubis@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/rt: Fix bad task migration for rt tasks

2023-05-11T14:03:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit feffe5bb274dd3442080ef0e4053746091878799 ]

Commit 95158a89dd50 ("sched,rt: Use the full cpumask for balancing")
allows find_lock_lowest_rq() to pick a task with migration disabled.
The purpose of the commit is to push the current running task on the
CPU that has the migrate_disable() task away.

However, there is a race which allows a migrate_disable() task to be
migrated. Consider:

  CPU0                                    CPU1
  push_rt_task
    check is_migration_disabled(next_task)

                                          task not running and
                                          migration_disabled == 0

    find_lock_lowest_rq(next_task, rq);
      _double_lock_balance(this_rq, busiest);
        raw_spin_rq_unlock(this_rq);
        double_rq_lock(this_rq, busiest);
          <>
                                              
                                          task become running
                                          migrate_disable();
                                            
    deactivate_task(rq, next_task, 0);
    set_task_cpu(next_task, lowest_rq->cpu);
      WARN_ON_ONCE(is_migration_disabled(p));

Fixes: 95158a89dd50 ("sched,rt: Use the full cpumask for balancing")
Signed-off-by: Schspa Shi 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann 
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Tested-by: Dwaine Gonyier 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry

2023-03-10T08:32:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7c4a5b89a0b5a57a64b601775b296abf77a9fe97 ]

Commit 326587b84078 ("sched: fix goto retry in pick_next_task_rt()")
removed any path which could make pick_next_rt_entity() return NULL.
However, BUG_ON(!rt_se) in _pick_next_task_rt() (the only caller of
pick_next_rt_entity()) still checks the error condition, which can
never happen, since list_entry() never returns NULL.
Remove the BUG_ON check, and instead emit a warning in the only
possible error condition here: the queue being empty which should
never happen.

Fixes: 326587b84078 ("sched: fix goto retry in pick_next_task_rt()")
Signed-off-by: Pietro Borrello 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230128-list-entry-null-check-sched-v3-1-b1a71bd1ac6b@diag.uniroma1.it
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched: Introduce struct balance_callback to avoid CFI mismatches

2022-10-17T14:41:25+00:00

Introduce distinct struct balance_callback instead of performing function
pointer casting which will trip CFI. Avoids warnings as found by Clang's
future -Wcast-function-type-strict option:

In file included from kernel/sched/core.c:84:
kernel/sched/sched.h:1755:15: warning: cast from 'void (*)(struct rq *)' to 'void (*)(struct callback_head *)' converts to incompatible function type [-Wcast-function-type-strict]
        head->func = (void (*)(struct callback_head *))func;
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No binary differences result from this change.

This patch is a cleanup based on Brad Spengler/PaX Team's modifications
to sched code in their last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code
are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1724
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221008000758.2957718-1-keescook@chromium.org

sched: Rename task_running() to task_on_cpu()

2022-09-07T19:53:47+00:00

There is some ambiguity about task_running() in that it is unrelated
to TASK_RUNNING but instead tests ->on_cpu. As such, rename the thing
task_on_cpu().

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yxhkhn55uHZx+NGl@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Merge branch 'sched/warnings' into sched/core, to pick up WARN_ON_ONCE() conversion commit

2022-08-30T08:28:15+00:00

Merge in the BUG_ON() => WARN_ON_ONCE() conversion commit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar