[PATCH v4] sched/eevdf: Fix vprot across reweighting
From: Kayra Cizmeci
Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 11:14:30 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 in reweight_eevdf(), and just cancel it in the sched_change_end()
path.
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 v3->v4:
* Change enqueue_task_fair() block so that instead of extending the protection
in sched_change_end() path just cancel the protection if it is active. (Vincent)
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20261016084604.17999-1-kayracizmeci@xxxxxxxxx/
Compile tested only.
kernel/sched/fair.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0feec172fd37..61266c3a7f2f 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++;
@@ -8202,6 +8205,13 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
if (!curr) {
reweight_eevdf(cfs_rq, se, weight, false);
place_entity(cfs_rq, se, flags | ENQUEUE_QUEUED);
+ /*
+ * This happens in sched_change_end(), while cfs_rq->curr == NULL
+ * and rq->donor == p. In this case, cancel the protection rather
+ * than extending it.
+ */
+ if (task_current_donor(rq, p))
+ cancel_protect_slice(se);
__enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
}
--
2.53.0