From: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Vernet <void@manifault.com>,
Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>,
John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>,
David Dai <david.dai@linux.dev>, Koba Ko <kobak@nvidia.com>,
Aiqun Yu <aiqun.yu@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
sched-ext@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 06/15] sched: Add sched_ext hooks for proxy execution
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:43:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260728154425.1549660-7-arighi@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260728154425.1549660-1-arighi@nvidia.com>
Proxy execution splits the scheduling context (the donor) from the
execution context (the lock owner). sched_ext needs to observe that
split at three points in __schedule():
- whether a blocked EXT task can be retained on the runqueue as a
donor,
- when a donor's scheduling context starts driving a lock owner,
- once proxy resolution has settled for the current pick.
Introduce scx_allow_proxy_exec(), scx_proxy_donor_start() and
scx_proxy_resolved(), and add their call sites in __schedule(). The
implementations are empty here and are filled in by the sched_ext
changes that follow, so that all the sched core changes needed by proxy
execution stay together in the preparatory patches.
SCHED_PROXY_EXEC still depends on !SCHED_CLASS_EXT, so the new hooks are
inert: they are compiled out with CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT=n and
unreachable otherwise.
This is a preparatory change to support proxy execution with sched_ext.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 12 +++++++-----
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 13 +++++++++++++
kernel/sched/ext/ext.h | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index cff007d8b5e26..7ade08aa09dbc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7156,13 +7156,12 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(int sched_mode)
}
} else if (!preempt && prev_state) {
/*
- * We pass task_is_blocked() as the should_block arg
- * in order to keep mutex-blocked tasks on the runqueue
- * for slection with proxy-exec (without proxy-exec
- * task_is_blocked() will always be false).
+ * Keep mutex-blocked tasks on the runqueue for proxy execution
+ * only when their scheduling class allows it. Without proxy
+ * execution, task_is_blocked() always returns false.
*/
try_to_block_task(rq, prev, &prev_state,
- !task_is_blocked(prev));
+ !task_is_blocked(prev) || !scx_allow_proxy_exec(prev));
switch_count = &prev->nvcsw;
}
@@ -7183,6 +7182,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(int sched_mode)
}
if (next == rq->idle) {
zap_balance_callbacks(rq);
+ scx_proxy_resolved(rq);
goto keep_resched;
}
}
@@ -7203,6 +7203,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(int sched_mode)
donor->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, donor, donor);
donor->sched_class->set_next_task(rq, donor, true);
}
+ scx_proxy_donor_start(rq);
+ scx_proxy_resolved(rq);
} else {
rq_set_donor(rq, next);
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index 69ab59d176ce0..8bc83070720ca 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(scx_sched_lock);
+bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* NOTE: sched_ext is in the process of growing multiple scheduler support and
* scx_root usage is in a transitional state. Naked dereferences are safe if the
@@ -1053,6 +1058,10 @@ static void schedule_deferred_locked(struct rq *rq)
schedule_deferred(rq);
}
+void scx_proxy_resolved(struct rq *rq)
+{
+}
+
void schedule_dsq_reenq(struct scx_sched *sch, struct scx_dispatch_q *dsq,
u64 reenq_flags, struct rq *locked_rq)
{
@@ -2957,6 +2966,10 @@ static void set_next_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool first)
}
}
+void scx_proxy_donor_start(struct rq *rq)
+{
+}
+
static enum scx_cpu_preempt_reason
preempt_reason_from_class(const struct sched_class *class)
{
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h
index 0b7fc46aee08c..859b9261a8a6b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ void scx_rq_deactivate(struct rq *rq);
int scx_check_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy);
bool task_should_scx(int policy);
bool scx_allow_ttwu_queue(const struct task_struct *p);
+bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p);
+void scx_proxy_donor_start(struct rq *rq);
+void scx_proxy_resolved(struct rq *rq);
void init_sched_ext_class(void);
static inline u32 scx_cpuperf_target(s32 cpu)
@@ -54,6 +57,9 @@ static inline void scx_rq_deactivate(struct rq *rq) {}
static inline int scx_check_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy) { return 0; }
static inline bool task_on_scx(const struct task_struct *p) { return false; }
static inline bool scx_allow_ttwu_queue(const struct task_struct *p) { return true; }
+static inline bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p) { return true; }
+static inline void scx_proxy_donor_start(struct rq *rq) {}
+static inline void scx_proxy_resolved(struct rq *rq) {}
static inline void init_sched_ext_class(void) {}
#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT */
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-28 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-28 15:43 [PATCHSET v10 sched_ext/for-7.3] sched: Make proxy execution compatible with sched_ext Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 01/15] sched/core: Avoid false migration warning for proxy donors Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 02/15] sched: Make NOHZ CFS bandwidth checks follow proxy donor Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 03/15] sched: Add helper to block retained proxy donors Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 04/15] sched: Skip class callbacks with SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_PARAMS Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 05/15] sched: Add prepare_switch() class callback Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 07/15] sched_ext: Block proxy donors across scheduler transitions Andrea Righi
2026-08-03 20:36 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-05 7:02 ` Andrea Righi
2026-08-06 9:07 ` Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 08/15] sched_ext: Fix ops.running/stopping() pairing for proxy-exec donors Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 09/15] sched_ext: Generalize the reject DSQ reenqueue path Andrea Righi
2026-08-03 20:35 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-03 20:38 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-05 8:50 ` Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 10/15] sched_ext: Handle proxy-exec races in remote DSQ transfers Andrea Righi
2026-08-03 21:36 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-05 16:44 ` Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 11/15] sched_ext: Split curr|donor references properly Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 12/15] sched_ext: Delegate proxy donor admission to BPF schedulers Andrea Righi
2026-08-03 22:18 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-06 6:10 ` Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 13/15] sched_ext: Add selftest for blocked donor admission Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 14/15] sched_ext: scx_qmap: Add proxy execution support Andrea Righi
2026-08-03 22:22 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-06 7:28 ` Andrea Righi
2026-07-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 15/15] sched: Allow enabling proxy exec with sched_ext Andrea Righi
2026-08-03 22:19 ` Tejun Heo
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