Re: [PATCH] sched_ext: initialize built-in idle state before ops.init()
From: Andrea Righi
Date: Mon Mar 24 2025 - 05:18:22 EST
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> A BPF scheduler may want to use the built-in idle cpumasks in ops.init()
> before the scheduler is fully initialized, either directly or through a
> BPF timer for example.
>
> However, this would result in an error, since the idle state has not
> been properly initialized yet.
>
> This can be easily verified by modifying scx_simple to call
> scx_bpf_get_idle_cpumask() in ops.init():
>
> $ sudo scx_simple
>
> DEBUG DUMP
> ===========================================================================
>
> scx_simple[121] triggered exit kind 1024:
> runtime error (built-in idle tracking is disabled)
> ...
>
> Fix this by properly initializing the idle state before ops.init() is
> called. With this change applied:
>
> $ sudo scx_simple
> local=2 global=0
> local=19 global=11
> local=23 global=11
> ...
>
> Fixes: d73249f88743d ("sched_ext: idle: Make idle static keys private")
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sorry for the duplicate email, please ignore this one.
This is the right one targeting sched_ext/for-6.15:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250324085753.27112-1-arighi@xxxxxxxxxx/
-Andrea