[PATCHSET sched_ext/for-7.3] sched_ext: Cgroup migration and op delivery for sub-schedulers

From: Tejun Heo

Date: Sat Jul 18 2026 - 04:17:42 EST


Hello,

A task's sched must match its cgroup's: each sub-scheduler serves the
cgroup2 subtree it is attached to and the root scheduler serves the rest.
Cgroup migration currently breaks this. A task moved across a
sub-scheduler boundary keeps its old sched, leading to wrong-sched
scheduling and, once the stale sched is freed, a use-after-free. Cgroup
ops are also always delivered to the root scheduler no matter which sched
serves the cgroup.

This patchset makes both follow the sub-scheduler topology:

- cgroup gains a task migration notifier (0001). sched_ext uses it to
re-home tasks whose migration crosses a sched boundary: the destination
sched runs the fallible ops.init_task() before the migration commits,
so a rejection fails the cgroup.procs write (0002-0004).

- cgroup_init/exit and the knob ops are delivered to the sched each
task_group is on. The move ops go to the task's sched, only for
migrations that don't re-home it (0005).

- Sub-scheduler enable claims the subtree's cgroups from the parent and
disable returns them. A parent that fails to re-init a returned cgroup
fails in turn and the cgroups move up the chain, ending at the root
scheduler (0006).

- scx_qmap consumes cgroup weights through ops.cgroup_set_weight() and
gains fault injection modes to exercise the failure paths (0007-0008).

Verified with a trace-based suite on the demo scheduler covering op
delivery and routing, handover failures, multi-level punt chains, cgroup1
and stress.

Based on sched_ext/for-7.3 (7c2cd767705d).

Tejun Heo (8):
cgroup: Add cgroup_task_notifier and task migration events
sched_ext: Factor out scx_rehome_task() and scx_punt_task()
sched_ext: Relocate scx_cgroup_enabled
sched_ext: Re-home tasks on cgroup migration
sched_ext: Deliver cgroup ops to each task_group's sched
sched_ext: Hand over cgroups at sub-scheduler enable/disable
tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap - Consume cgroup weights through set_weight
tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap - Add init fault injection modes

Git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext.git scx-cgroup-migration

include/linux/cgroup.h | 26 +++
include/linux/sched/ext.h | 15 ++
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 93 ++++++++-
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 247 +++++++++++++++++-------
kernel/sched/ext/internal.h | 44 ++++-
kernel/sched/ext/sub.c | 418 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 95 ++++++++--
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.c | 110 +----------
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.h | 5 +-
9 files changed, 819 insertions(+), 234 deletions(-)

--
tejun