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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>,
	Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Cc: sched-ext@lists.linux.dev, Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 14/32] sched_ext: RCU-protect the sub-sched tree's children/sibling lists
Date: Thu,  2 Jul 2026 22:01:41 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260703080159.2314350-15-tj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260703080159.2314350-1-tj@kernel.org>

Future kfuncs need to walk descendants without scx_sched_lock. Make the
walker RCU-safe so that they can. A sub-sched's fields are initialized
before it is linked, so a walk that observes a linked node also observes its
setup. In-place changes after linking carry their own ordering.

Switch the children/sibling list ops to RCU and expand the descendant walker
to accept rcu_read_lock as a valid read-side context. Walkers that mutate
keep scx_sched_lock.

A sub-sched can be linked while an ancestor is bypassing, after the bypass
walk that propagates the depth has passed its parent. Take scx_bypass_lock
across linking and inherit the parent's bypass_depth so the new sched starts
out with the ancestor bypass state.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 10 +++++++---
 kernel/sched/ext/sub.c | 11 +++++++----
 kernel/sched/ext/sub.h |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index c0a3a1ead283..1e38aaad4332 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -5468,7 +5468,8 @@ s32 scx_link_sched(struct scx_sched *sch)
 	const char *err_msg = "";
 	s32 ret = 0;
 
-	scoped_guard(raw_spinlock_irq, &scx_sched_lock) {
+	scoped_guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave, &scx_bypass_lock)	/* for bypass inheritance */
+	scoped_guard(raw_spinlock, &scx_sched_lock) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED
 		struct scx_sched *parent = scx_parent(sch);
 
@@ -5492,7 +5493,10 @@ s32 scx_link_sched(struct scx_sched *sch)
 				break;
 			}
 
-			list_add_tail(&sch->sibling, &parent->children);
+			list_add_tail_rcu(&sch->sibling, &parent->children);
+
+			/* inherit the ancestor bypass state */
+			WRITE_ONCE(sch->bypass_depth, READ_ONCE(parent->bypass_depth));
 		}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED */
 
@@ -5519,7 +5523,7 @@ void scx_unlink_sched(struct scx_sched *sch)
 		if (scx_parent(sch)) {
 			rhashtable_remove_fast(&scx_sched_hash, &sch->hash_node,
 					       scx_sched_hash_params);
-			list_del_init(&sch->sibling);
+			list_del_rcu(&sch->sibling);
 		}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED */
 		list_del_rcu(&sch->all);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/sub.c b/kernel/sched/ext/sub.c
index c87650f26b30..066fad0a60b4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/sub.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/sub.c
@@ -35,21 +35,24 @@ struct scx_sched *scx_next_descendant_pre(struct scx_sched *pos, struct scx_sche
 	struct scx_sched *next;
 
 	lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held(&scx_enable_mutex) ||
-		       lockdep_is_held(&scx_sched_lock));
+		       lockdep_is_held(&scx_sched_lock) ||
+		       rcu_read_lock_any_held());
 
 	/* if first iteration, visit @root */
 	if (!pos)
 		return root;
 
 	/* visit the first child if exists */
-	next = list_first_entry_or_null(&pos->children, struct scx_sched, sibling);
+	next = list_first_or_null_rcu(&pos->children, struct scx_sched, sibling);
 	if (next)
 		return next;
 
 	/* no child, visit my or the closest ancestor's next sibling */
 	while (pos != root) {
-		if (!list_is_last(&pos->sibling, &scx_parent(pos)->children))
-			return list_next_entry(pos, sibling);
+		next = list_next_or_null_rcu(&scx_parent(pos)->children, &pos->sibling,
+					     struct scx_sched, sibling);
+		if (next)
+			return next;
 		pos = scx_parent(pos);
 	}
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/sub.h b/kernel/sched/ext/sub.h
index 9fa6b5c8be23..e936867bc5c5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/sub.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/sub.h
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ static inline s32 scx_alloc_pshards(struct scx_sched *sch) { return 0; }
  * @root: sched to walk the descendants of
  *
  * Walk @root's descendants. @root is included in the iteration and the first
- * node to be visited. Must be called with either scx_enable_mutex or
- * scx_sched_lock held.
+ * node to be visited. Must be called with scx_enable_mutex, scx_sched_lock, or
+ * RCU read lock.
  */
 #define scx_for_each_descendant_pre(pos, root)					\
 	for ((pos) = scx_next_descendant_pre(NULL, (root)); (pos);		\
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-03  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-03  8:01 [PATCHSET sched_ext/for-7.3] sched_ext: Capability-based CPU delegation for sub-schedulers Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 01/32] sched_ext: Fix premature ops->priv publication in scx_alloc_and_add_sched() Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 02/32] tools/sched_ext: scx - Fix cmask_subset(), cmask_equal() and cmask_weight() Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 03/32] sched_ext: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE in cmask word ops and drop _RACY variants Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:33   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 04/32] tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap - Use bare u64/u32/s32 integer types Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 05/32] sched_ext: Reject direct slice and dsq_vtime writes for cid-form schedulers Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 06/32] sched_ext: Make scx_bpf_kick_cid() return void Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 07/32] sched_ext: Make the kick machinery per-sched Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  9:02   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 08/32] sched_ext: Add ops.init_cids() to finalize the cid layout before init Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 09/32] sched_ext: Add CID sharding Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 10/32] sched_ext: Add shard boundaries to scx_bpf_cid_override() Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  9:51   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 11/32] sched_ext: Defer scx_sched kobj sysfs add into the enable workfns Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 12/32] sched_ext: Add per-shard scx_sched storage scaffolding Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 13/32] sched_ext: Add scx_cmask_ref for validated arena cmask access Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2026-07-03 10:49   ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 14/32] sched_ext: RCU-protect the sub-sched tree's children/sibling lists sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 15/32] sched_ext: Add scx_skip_subtree_pre() Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 16/32] sched_ext: Add per-shard cap delegation for sub-schedulers Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 11:17   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 17/32] sched_ext: Add coalescing sub_caps_updated() notifier " Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 18/32] sched_ext: Maintain per-cpu effective cap copies for single-read checks Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 12:05   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 19/32] sched_ext: Add sub_ecaps_updated() effective-cap change notifier Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 12:25   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 20/32] sched_ext: Generalize local-DSQ handling to rq-owned DSQs Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 21/32] sched_ext: Add reject DSQ for cap-rejected dispatches Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 12:57   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 22/32] sched_ext: Add the SCX_CAP_ENQ_IMMED cap Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 23/32] sched_ext: Assign a unique id to each scheduler instance Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 24/32] sched_ext: Route task slice writes through set_task_slice() Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 25/32] sched_ext: Tie cpu occupancy to SCX_CAP_BASE through the task slice Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 13:34   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 26/32] sched_ext: Add the SCX_CAP_ENQ cap Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 27/32] sched_ext: Gate kicks on SCX_CAP_BASE and preemption on SCX_CAP_PREEMPT Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 14:01   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 28/32] sched_ext: Route ops.update_idle() to sub-schedulers and re-notify owed scheds Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 14:14   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 29/32] sched_ext: Replay ecaps notifications suppressed by bypass Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 14:28   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 30/32] sched_ext: Add scx_bpf_sub_kill() to evict a child sub-scheduler Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 14:45   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 31/32] tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap - Expand hierarchical sub-scheduling Tejun Heo
2026-07-03 14:57   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-04  0:54     ` Tejun Heo
2026-07-03  8:01 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.3 32/32] tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap - Add sub-sched cap fault injection Tejun Heo

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