[PATCH v2 1/2] sched/core: Don't steal a proxy-exec donor
From: Vasily Gorbik
Date: Thu May 07 2026 - 06:42:30 EST
try_steal_cookie() avoids stealing src->core_pick and src->curr before
moving a task with the same cookie via move_queued_task_locked().
With proxy-exec, src->donor is the current scheduling context and may
differ from src->curr. Stealing it migrates a task that the source rq
still treats as current, leaving src's scheduler state for that task
stale. For CFS this means cfs_rq->curr points at the stolen entity,
and the next pick on the source rq hits the WARN_ON_ONCE in
put_prev_entity().
Commit 7de9d4f94638 ("sched: Start blocked_on chain processing in
find_proxy_task()") tweaked the fair class logic so that the donor task
isn't migrated away while we're running the proxy. Do it similarly for
try_steal_cookie() and skip src->donor as well.
Fixes: 7de9d4f94638 ("sched: Start blocked_on chain processing in find_proxy_task()")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b905805bbcbe..8aed55592ca9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6366,7 +6366,7 @@ static bool try_steal_cookie(int this, int that)
return false;
do {
- if (p == src->core_pick || p == src->curr)
+ if (p == src->core_pick || p == src->curr || p == src->donor)
goto next;
if (!is_cpu_allowed(p, this))
--
2.53.0