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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 06/14] sched_ext: Block proxy donors across scheduler transitions
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:04:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260725160513.57477-7-arighi@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260725160513.57477-1-arighi@nvidia.com>

Proxy execution retains mutex-blocked donors on the runqueue so their
scheduling context can execute a lock owner. sched_ext cannot safely
retain such donors unless the BPF scheduler explicitly participates in
their admission and ordering.

Make sched_ext reject retained donors by default. Implement
scx_allow_proxy_exec() to force blocked EXT tasks through the regular
block path in schedule(), and fully deactivate a retained donor before
sched_setscheduler(), PI de-boosting, or global activation moves it into
the EXT class.

This is a preparatory change to support proxy execution with sched_ext.

Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
---
 kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index c7a77cc914cd5..bd9a8c3a269af 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -26,7 +26,15 @@ DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(scx_sched_lock);
 
 bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	return true;
+	return p->sched_class != &ext_sched_class;
+}
+
+static void prepare_switch_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	lockdep_assert_held(&p->pi_lock);
+	lockdep_assert_rq_held(rq);
+
+	sched_proxy_block_task(task_rq(p), p);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4731,6 +4739,7 @@ DEFINE_SCHED_CLASS(ext) = {
 
 	.task_tick		= task_tick_scx,
 
+	.prepare_switch		= prepare_switch_scx,
 	.switching_to		= switching_to_scx,
 	.switched_from		= switched_from_scx,
 	.switched_to		= switched_to_scx,
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-25 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-25 16:04 [PATCHSET v9 sched_ext/for-7.3] sched: Make proxy execution compatible with sched_ext Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 01/14] sched/core: Avoid false migration warning for proxy donors Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 02/14] sched: Make NOHZ CFS bandwidth checks follow proxy donor Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:26   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 03/14] sched: Add helper to block retained proxy donors Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 04/14] sched: Add prepare_switch() class callback Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:25   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 05/14] sched: Add sched_ext hooks for proxy execution Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:14   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 16:04 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 07/14] sched_ext: Fix ops.running/stopping() pairing for proxy-exec donors Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 08/14] sched_ext: Generalize the reject DSQ reenqueue path Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 09/14] sched_ext: Handle proxy-exec races in remote DSQ transfers Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 10/14] sched_ext: Split curr|donor references properly Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 11/14] sched_ext: Delegate proxy donor admission to BPF schedulers Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 12/14] sched_ext: Add selftest for blocked donor admission Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 13/14] sched_ext: scx_qmap: Add proxy execution support Andrea Righi
2026-07-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 14/14] sched: Allow enabling proxy exec with sched_ext Andrea Righi

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