Re: [PATCH v5 09/15] sched: Add task enqueue/dequeue trace points

From: Gabriele Monaco

Date: Tue Feb 03 2026 - 06:07:03 EST


Hi Peter,

On Thu, 2026-01-22 at 16:54 +0100, Gabriele Monaco wrote:
> From: Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add trace points into enqueue_task() and dequeue_task().

Can I have an Ack for these tracepoints?

Thanks,
Gabriele

>
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     V5:
>     * Do not fire enqueue tracepoint for delayed enqueues
>
>  include/trace/events/sched.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>  kernel/sched/core.c          | 10 +++++++++-
>  kernel/sched/sched.h         |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
> index 366b2e8ec40c..f4e1d3554e3e 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
> @@ -912,6 +912,19 @@ DECLARE_TRACE(sched_dl_server_stop,
>   TP_PROTO(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, int cpu),
>   TP_ARGS(dl_se, cpu));
>  
> +/*
> + * The two trace points below may not work as expected for fair tasks due
> + * to delayed dequeue. See:
> + * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/179674c6-f82a-4718-ace2-67b5e672fdee@xxxxxxx/
> + */
> +DECLARE_TRACE(sched_enqueue,
> + TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu),
> + TP_ARGS(tsk, cpu));
> +
> +DECLARE_TRACE(sched_dequeue,
> + TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu),
> + TP_ARGS(tsk, cpu));
> +
>  #endif /* _TRACE_SCHED_H */
>  
>  /* This part must be outside protection */
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index f6293fa02fb7..c885d7885172 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2087,6 +2087,9 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p)
>  
>  void enqueue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
>  {
> + if (trace_sched_enqueue_tp_enabled() && !(flags & ENQUEUE_DELAYED))
> + trace_sched_enqueue_tp(p, rq->cpu);
> +
>   if (!(flags & ENQUEUE_NOCLOCK))
>   update_rq_clock(rq);
>  
> @@ -2114,6 +2117,8 @@ void enqueue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
> int flags)
>   */
>  inline bool dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
>  {
> + int ret;
> +
>   if (sched_core_enabled(rq))
>   sched_core_dequeue(rq, p, flags);
>  
> @@ -2131,7 +2136,10 @@ inline bool dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct
> task_struct *p, int flags)
>   */
>   uclamp_rq_dec(rq, p);
>   rq->queue_mask |= p->sched_class->queue_mask;
> - return p->sched_class->dequeue_task(rq, p, flags);
> + ret = p->sched_class->dequeue_task(rq, p, flags);
> + if (trace_sched_dequeue_tp_enabled() && !(flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP))
> + trace_sched_dequeue_tp(p, rq->cpu);
> + return ret;
>  }
>  
>  void activate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index e885a935b716..8465472b40fa 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -2918,6 +2918,8 @@ static inline void sub_nr_running(struct rq *rq,
> unsigned count)
>  
>  static inline void __block_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
>  {
> + trace_sched_dequeue_tp(p, rq->cpu);
> +
>   if (p->sched_contributes_to_load)
>   rq->nr_uninterruptible++;
>