[PATCH 05/16] sched: Add sched_ext hooks for proxy execution

From: Andrea Righi

Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 13:01:56 EST


Proxy execution splits the scheduling context (the donor) from the
execution context (the lock owner). sched_ext needs to observe that
split at three points in __schedule():

- whether a blocked EXT task can be retained on the runqueue as a
donor,
- when a donor's scheduling context starts driving a lock owner,
- after proxy resolution, when deferred reenqueue work that was blocked
by an active proxy relationship can be retried.

Introduce scx_allow_proxy_exec(), scx_proxy_donor_start() and
scx_proxy_reenqueue_retry(), and add their call sites in __schedule().
The implementations are empty here and are filled in by the sched_ext
changes that follow, so that all the sched core changes needed by proxy
execution stay together in the preparatory patches.

SCHED_PROXY_EXEC still depends on !SCHED_CLASS_EXT, so the new hooks are
inert: they are compiled out with CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT=n and
unreachable otherwise.

This is a preparatory change to support proxy execution with sched_ext.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 12 +++++++-----
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 13 +++++++++++++
kernel/sched/ext/ext.h | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 2bf1bd5d6a98b..5a7d2a723f1db 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7216,13 +7216,12 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(int sched_mode)
}
} else if (!preempt && prev_state) {
/*
- * We pass task_is_blocked() as the should_block arg
- * in order to keep mutex-blocked tasks on the runqueue
- * for slection with proxy-exec (without proxy-exec
- * task_is_blocked() will always be false).
+ * Keep mutex-blocked tasks on the runqueue for proxy execution
+ * only when their scheduling class allows it. Without proxy
+ * execution, task_is_blocked() always returns false.
*/
try_to_block_task(rq, prev, &prev_state,
- !task_is_blocked(prev));
+ !task_is_blocked(prev) || !scx_allow_proxy_exec(prev));
switch_count = &prev->nvcsw;
}

@@ -7243,6 +7242,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(int sched_mode)
}
if (next == rq->idle) {
zap_balance_callbacks(rq);
+ scx_proxy_reenqueue_retry(rq, next);
goto keep_resched;
}
}
@@ -7263,6 +7263,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(int sched_mode)
donor->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, donor, donor);
donor->sched_class->set_next_task(rq, donor, true);
}
+ scx_proxy_donor_start(rq);
+ scx_proxy_reenqueue_retry(rq, next);
} else {
rq_set_donor(rq, next);
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index f60894dbf0623..aaa6ee66917e8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@

DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(scx_sched_lock);

+bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* NOTE: sched_ext is in the process of growing multiple scheduler support and
* scx_root usage is in a transitional state. Naked dereferences are safe if the
@@ -1110,6 +1115,10 @@ static void schedule_deferred_locked(struct rq *rq)
schedule_deferred(rq);
}

+void scx_proxy_reenqueue_retry(struct rq *rq)
+{
+}
+
void schedule_dsq_reenq(struct scx_sched *sch, struct scx_dispatch_q *dsq,
u64 reenq_flags, struct rq *locked_rq)
{
@@ -3119,6 +3128,10 @@ static void set_next_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool first)
}
}

+void scx_proxy_donor_start(struct rq *rq)
+{
+}
+
static enum scx_cpu_preempt_reason
preempt_reason_from_class(const struct sched_class *class)
{
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h
index 0012f708a5504..cca3f7c97b788 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.h
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ void scx_rq_deactivate(struct rq *rq);
int scx_check_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy);
bool task_should_scx(int policy);
bool scx_allow_ttwu_queue(const struct task_struct *p);
+bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p);
+void scx_proxy_donor_start(struct rq *rq);
+void scx_proxy_reenqueue_retry(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next);
void init_sched_ext_class(void);
void __scx_update_idle(struct rq *rq, bool idle, bool do_notify);

@@ -61,6 +64,10 @@ static inline void scx_rq_deactivate(struct rq *rq) {}
static inline int scx_check_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy) { return 0; }
static inline bool task_on_scx(const struct task_struct *p) { return false; }
static inline bool scx_allow_ttwu_queue(const struct task_struct *p) { return true; }
+static inline bool scx_allow_proxy_exec(const struct task_struct *p) { return true; }
+static inline void scx_proxy_donor_start(struct rq *rq) {}
+static inline void scx_proxy_reenqueue_retry(struct rq *rq,
+ struct task_struct *next) {}
static inline void init_sched_ext_class(void) {}
static inline void scx_update_idle(struct rq *rq, bool idle, bool do_notify) {}

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2.55.0