[PATCHSET sched_ext/for-7.3-arena-args] sched_ext: Convert arena-pointer interfaces to __arena arguments

From: Tejun Heo

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 17:16:58 EST


cid-form schedulers keep their data in the BPF arena, but the interfaces
that pass arena objects between the kernel and BPF predate the __arena
argument support that just landed in bpf-next: kfuncs took the pointers as
__ign scalars or verifier-checked buffers, and both sides rebased between
the address forms by hand.

Convert all of them to __arena arguments before cid-form schedulers start
seeing real use. The ops_cid set_cmask() and sub_caps_updated() callbacks
pass kernel arena addresses that the struct_ops trampoline converts, the
sub-cap kfuncs and scx_bpf_cid_override() receive rebased kernel pointers
directly, and the hand-rolled conversion helpers are removed. The BPF-side
declarations carry __arena-qualified pointers, so scx_qmap passes its arena
objects without casts.

The arena argument address translation is currently implemented only on
x86-64. cid-form schedulers using these interfaces load only there for now.

This patchset contains the following three patches:

0001-sched_ext-Pass-kernel-arena-pointers-to-ops_cid-call.patch
0002-sched_ext-Convert-sub-cap-kfuncs-to-__arena-cmask-ar.patch
0003-sched_ext-Convert-scx_bpf_cid_override-to-__arena-ar.patch

and is based on sched_ext/for-7.3-arena-args (294d95ff251b), which is
for-7.3 with bpf-next d114bb989367 ("Merge branch
'add-arena-argument-support-to-kfuncs-and-struct_ops'") pulled in for the
__arena argument support. The patches are also available in the following
git branch:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext.git arena-args

diffstat follows.

kernel/sched/ext/arena.c | 3 +-
kernel/sched/ext/cid.c | 60 +++++++++++++++-------------
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 22 +++++------
kernel/sched/ext/internal.h | 19 ++-------
kernel/sched/ext/sub.c | 53 ++++++++++++-------------
kernel/sched/ext/types.h | 6 +--
tools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h | 11 +++---
tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h | 14 ++++---
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 36 ++++++-----------
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.h | 4 ++
11 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-)

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tejun