[PATCH 6.18.y 3/3] sched/core: Make core-sched flips wait for in-flight selections
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-09 09:26:35
Subsystem:
scheduler, the rest · Maintainers:
Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Juri Lelli, Vincent Guittot, Linus Torvalds
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit f3629c63a4af3e491381780bc6c123cb498c4c40 ]
Core scheduling's pick_next_task() operates on all sibling rqs under one
acquisition of the shared core-wide lock. A ->pick_task() that releases the
rq lock leaves every sibling __lock momentarily free, letting
__sched_core_flip(false) complete mid-selection and rebind rq_lockp() under
it. The selection resumes on the split locks, touching sibling state it no
longer protects, and __schedule() finally releases a lock that was never
taken while leaking the one that was.
Count in-flight core-wide selections in the leader's rq->core_pick_in_flight
and make __sched_core_flip() wait for the count to drain. The count only
changes under the shared lock, which the flip holds while sampling, so no
other ordering is needed. The wait can repeat while selections overlap, but
the flip backs off between samples and flips are rare cookie-lifetime
events.
sched_core_cpu_deactivate() moves the count to the new leader - a stale copy
left behind would bias it forever if that CPU later returns as its own
leader.
Fixes: 539f65125d20 ("sched: Add core wide task selection and scheduling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 940c4d8a9d223..08ac7da783a69 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c@@ -434,6 +434,17 @@ static void __sched_core_flip(bool enabled) sched_core_lock(cpu, &flags); + /* + * A core-wide selection may have the shared rq lock temporarily + * released by a lock-dropping ->pick_task(). Flipping would + * rebind rq_lockp() under it. Wait it out. + */ + while (cpu_rq(cpu)->core->core_pick_in_flight) { + sched_core_unlock(cpu, &flags); + cpu_relax(); + sched_core_lock(cpu, &flags); + } + for_each_cpu(t, smt_mask) cpu_rq(t)->core_enabled = enabled;
@@ -6079,6 +6090,8 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct rq_flags *rf) return __pick_next_task(rq, rf); } + rq->core->core_pick_in_flight++; + /* * If there were no {en,de}queues since we picked (IOW, the task * pointers are all still valid), and we haven't scheduled the last
@@ -6273,6 +6286,7 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct rq_flags *rf) } out_set_next: + rq->core->core_pick_in_flight--; put_prev_set_next_task(rq, rq->donor, next); if (rq->core->core_forceidle_count && next == rq->idle) queue_core_balance(rq);
@@ -6466,6 +6480,13 @@ static void sched_core_cpu_deactivate(unsigned int cpu) core_rq->core_forceidle_seq = rq->core_forceidle_seq; core_rq->core_forceidle_occupation = rq->core_forceidle_occupation; + /* + * A stale leftover would bias the count forever if this CPU later + * returns as its own leader. Move, don't copy. + */ + core_rq->core_pick_in_flight = rq->core_pick_in_flight; + rq->core_pick_in_flight = 0; + /* * Accounting edge for forced idle is handled in pick_next_task(). * Don't need another one here, since the hotplug thread shouldn't
@@ -8774,6 +8795,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void) rq->core_forceidle_count = 0; rq->core_forceidle_occupation = 0; rq->core_forceidle_start = 0; + rq->core_pick_in_flight = 0; rq->core_cookie = 0UL; #endif
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 15c5b11d2a665..97dddc148d711 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h@@ -1310,6 +1310,7 @@ struct rq { unsigned int core_forceidle_seq; unsigned int core_forceidle_occupation; u64 core_forceidle_start; + unsigned int core_pick_in_flight; #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_CORE */ /* Scratch cpumask to be temporarily used under rq_lock */
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