[GIT PULL] scheduler fix
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Nov 08 2025 - 08:12:31 EST
Linus,
Please pull the latest sched/urgent Git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-urgent-2025-11-08
# HEAD: 956dfda6a70885f18c0f8236a461aa2bc4f556ad sched/fair: Prevent cfs_rq from being unthrottled with zero runtime_remaining
Fix a group-throttling bug in the fair scheduler.
Thanks,
Ingo
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Aaron Lu (1):
sched/fair: Prevent cfs_rq from being unthrottled with zero runtime_remaining
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 15 ++++++---------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f1ebf67b48e2..f754a60de848 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -9606,7 +9606,7 @@ static int tg_set_cfs_bandwidth(struct task_group *tg,
guard(rq_lock_irq)(rq);
cfs_rq->runtime_enabled = runtime_enabled;
- cfs_rq->runtime_remaining = 0;
+ cfs_rq->runtime_remaining = 1;
if (cfs_rq->throttled)
unthrottle_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 25970dbbb279..5b752324270b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6024,20 +6024,17 @@ void unthrottle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
struct sched_entity *se = cfs_rq->tg->se[cpu_of(rq)];
/*
- * It's possible we are called with !runtime_remaining due to things
- * like user changed quota setting(see tg_set_cfs_bandwidth()) or async
- * unthrottled us with a positive runtime_remaining but other still
- * running entities consumed those runtime before we reached here.
+ * It's possible we are called with runtime_remaining < 0 due to things
+ * like async unthrottled us with a positive runtime_remaining but other
+ * still running entities consumed those runtime before we reached here.
*
- * Anyway, we can't unthrottle this cfs_rq without any runtime remaining
- * because any enqueue in tg_unthrottle_up() will immediately trigger a
- * throttle, which is not supposed to happen on unthrottle path.
+ * We can't unthrottle this cfs_rq without any runtime remaining because
+ * any enqueue in tg_unthrottle_up() will immediately trigger a throttle,
+ * which is not supposed to happen on unthrottle path.
*/
if (cfs_rq->runtime_enabled && cfs_rq->runtime_remaining <= 0)
return;
- se = cfs_rq->tg->se[cpu_of(rq)];
-
cfs_rq->throttled = 0;
update_rq_clock(rq);