[PATCH v3] sched/eevdf: Fix vprot across reweighting

From: Kayra Cizmeci

Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 04:46:29 EST


Currently in reweighting, while a tasks vruntime changes dead protection
could go alive, or alive protection could decrease, increase and go dead.
Fix it.

Fixes: 80390ead2080 ("sched/fair: Separate se->vlag from se->vprot")
Fixes: bcd74b2ffdd0 ("sched/fair: Only set slice protection at pick time")
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kayra Cizmeci <kayracizmeci@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes v2->v3:
* Rebase and move the enqueue_task_fair() block to if (!curr) block.


Not tested at all :-(. But I think
This should'a cover the shced_change_begin() path same,
since curr == NULL, so we always enter if (!curr) block.

kernel/sched/fair.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0feec172fd37..4593d0122d66 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4892,12 +4892,15 @@ static void reweight_eevdf(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
update_load_set(&se->h_load, weight);

if (on_rq) {
- if (rel_vprot)
- se->vprot += avruntime;
se->deadline += avruntime;
se->rel_deadline = 0;
se->vruntime = avruntime - se->vlag;

+ if (rel_vprot)
+ se->vprot += avruntime;
+ else if (curr)
+ se->vprot = se->vruntime;
+
if (!curr)
__enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
cfs_rq->h_nr_queued++;
@@ -8155,8 +8158,9 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
int task_new = !(flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = &rq->cfs;
- unsigned long weight;
- bool curr;
+ unsigned long weight, old_weight;
+ bool curr, live, running;
+ s64 dist;

if (task_is_throttled(p) && enqueue_throttled_task(p))
return;
@@ -8200,8 +8204,24 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
weight = enqueue_hierarchy(p, flags);

if (!curr) {
+ running = task_current_donor(rq, p);
+ live = running && protect_slice(se);
+
+ if (live) {
+ old_weight = se->h_load.weight;
+ dist = se->vprot - se->vruntime;
+ }
reweight_eevdf(cfs_rq, se, weight, false);
place_entity(cfs_rq, se, flags | ENQUEUE_QUEUED);
+
+ if (live) {
+ if (weight != old_weight)
+ dist = div64_long(dist * old_weight, weight);
+ se->vprot = se->vruntime + dist;
+ } else if (running) {
+ cancel_protect_slice(se);
+ }
+
__enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
}

--
2.53.0