[PATCH sched_ext/for-6.14-fixes 2/2] sched_ext: Fix migration disabled handling in targeted dispatches

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Feb 07 2025 - 15:59:13 EST


A dispatch operation that can target a specific local DSQ -
scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local() or scx_bpf_dsq_move() - checks whether the task
can be migrated to the target CPU using task_can_run_on_remote_rq(). If the
task can't be migrated to the targeted CPU, it is bounced through a global
DSQ.

task_can_run_on_remote_rq() assumes that the task is on a CPU that's
different from the targeted CPU but the callers doesn't uphold the
assumption and may call the function when the task is already on the target
CPU. When such task has migration disabled, task_can_run_on_remote_rq() ends
up returning %false incorrectly unnecessarily bouncing the task to a global
DSQ.

Fix it by updating the callers to only call task_can_run_on_remote_rq() when
the task is on a different CPU than the target CPU. As this is a bit subtle,
for clarity and documentation:

- Make task_can_run_on_remote_rq() trigger SCHED_WARN_ON() if the task is on
the same CPU as the target CPU.

- is_migration_disabled() test in task_can_run_on_remote_rq() cannot trigger
if the task is on a different CPU than the target CPU as the preceding
task_allowed_on_cpu() test should fail beforehand. Convert the test into
SCHED_WARN_ON().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4c30f5ce4f7a ("sched_ext: Implement scx_bpf_dispatch[_vtime]_from_dsq()")
Fixes: 0366017e0973 ("sched_ext: Use task_can_run_on_remote_rq() test in dispatch_to_local_dsq()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.12+
---
kernel/sched/ext.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -2333,12 +2333,16 @@ static void move_remote_task_to_local_ds
*
* - The BPF scheduler is bypassed while the rq is offline and we can always say
* no to the BPF scheduler initiated migrations while offline.
+ *
+ * The caller must ensure that @p and @rq are on different CPUs.
*/
static bool task_can_run_on_remote_rq(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq,
bool trigger_error)
{
int cpu = cpu_of(rq);

+ SCHED_WARN_ON(task_cpu(p) == cpu);
+
/*
* We don't require the BPF scheduler to avoid dispatching to offline
* CPUs mostly for convenience but also because CPUs can go offline
@@ -2352,8 +2356,11 @@ static bool task_can_run_on_remote_rq(st
return false;
}

- if (unlikely(is_migration_disabled(p)))
- return false;
+ /*
+ * If @p has migration disabled, @p->cpus_ptr only contains its current
+ * CPU and the above task_allowed_on_cpu() test should have failed.
+ */
+ SCHED_WARN_ON(is_migration_disabled(p));

if (!scx_rq_online(rq))
return false;
@@ -2457,7 +2464,8 @@ static struct rq *move_task_between_dsqs

if (dst_dsq->id == SCX_DSQ_LOCAL) {
dst_rq = container_of(dst_dsq, struct rq, scx.local_dsq);
- if (!task_can_run_on_remote_rq(p, dst_rq, true)) {
+ if (src_rq != dst_rq &&
+ unlikely(!task_can_run_on_remote_rq(p, dst_rq, true))) {
dst_dsq = find_global_dsq(p);
dst_rq = src_rq;
}
@@ -2611,7 +2619,8 @@ static void dispatch_to_local_dsq(struct
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (unlikely(!task_can_run_on_remote_rq(p, dst_rq, true))) {
+ if (src_rq != dst_rq &&
+ unlikely(!task_can_run_on_remote_rq(p, dst_rq, true))) {
dispatch_enqueue(find_global_dsq(p), p,
enq_flags | SCX_ENQ_CLEAR_OPSS);
return;