[PATCH v4 22/26] sched/deadline: Count the bandwidth a boosted task is given

From: Mathieu Desnoyers

Date: Fri Nov 06 2026 - 20:51:22 EST


sched_setattr(SCHED_DEADLINE) on a task that priority inheritance
boosted into the class leaves the this_bw of its runqueue without the
task's new bandwidth: switched_to_dl(), which hands a sleeping task's
bandwidth to this_bw as it enters the class, does not run for a task in
it already. Its wake-up gives that bandwidth to running_bw alone:

WARN_ON_ONCE(dl_rq->running_bw > dl_rq->this_bw);

and the two sums GRUB reclaims from disagree by that bandwidth until the
task migrates, where the enqueue adds it (add_rq_bw()).

Change the bandwidth the runqueue counts in __setparam_dl(), which every
task that gains deadline parameters goes through, rather than in
sched_dl_overflow(), which only a task of the class reaches that way. A
runqueue that counts nothing of the task takes the new bandwidth now,
where "sched/deadline: Do not take a waking task's bandwidth off a
runqueue it left" left it to the next enqueue: that enqueue finds it
counted and adds nothing, and a waking task's task_cpu() is the runqueue
it wakes on already. The bandwidth of a special entity stays counted
nowhere, the request telling one, since the entity's flags are those of
its old parameters: a sugov kthread given a reservation of its own gets
that one counted.

A reservation with the bandwidth the kthread had needs more:
sched_dl_overflow() returns at once for a task of the class whose
bandwidth does not change, before asking whether that bandwidth is
counted, which a sugov kthread's is not, nor that of a task a rebuild
left out. Ask first, and admit and record bandwidth that is not counted
as new. A runqueue that counts the bandwidth a change keeps has nothing
to change: dl_rq_change_utilization() would take a sleeping task's
running_bw off before its 0-lag time and cancel its inactive timer for
nothing. The early return was found by the Sashiko AI review of the
third posting of this series.

Fixes: 8fd27231c330 ("sched/deadline: Track the "total rq utilization" too")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index a0b05ff8c6da..ac01a0023c8f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -478,22 +478,36 @@ void cancel_inactive_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
cancel_dl_timer(dl_se, &dl_se->inactive_timer);
}

+/*
+ * The runqueue a sleeping task is on counts the bandwidth the task has:
+ * give it @new_bw in place of what it counts of the task's.
+ */
static void dl_change_utilization(struct task_struct *p, u64 new_bw)
{
- WARN_ON_ONCE(p->dl.flags & SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV);
+ struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;
+ struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);

if (task_on_rq_queued(p))
return;

/*
- * Waking up on another CPU, the task has its bandwidth on no
- * runqueue: the enqueue to come charges the new one, with the new
- * parameters, which __setparam_dl() sets right after this.
+ * No runqueue counts bandwidth of the task's: this one takes the
+ * new one, and the enqueue to come leaves it there (add_rq_bw() of
+ * a task a runqueue counts). A task waking up on another CPU has
+ * none of its bandwidth on a runqueue, and task_cpu() points at the
+ * one it wakes on.
*/
- if (!p->dl.dl_bw_oncpu)
+ if (!dl_se->dl_bw_oncpu) {
+ __add_rq_bw(new_bw, &rq->dl);
+ dl_se->dl_bw_oncpu = 1;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Counted with the bandwidth it keeps: nothing changes. */
+ if (new_bw == dl_se->dl_bw)
return;

- dl_rq_change_utilization(task_rq(p), &p->dl, new_bw);
+ dl_rq_change_utilization(rq, dl_se, new_bw);
}

static void __dl_clear_params(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se);
@@ -4274,10 +4288,6 @@ int sched_dl_overflow(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV)
return 0;

- /* !deadline task may carry old deadline bandwidth */
- if (new_bw == p->dl.dl_bw && task_has_dl_policy(p))
- return 0;
-
/*
* The bandwidth of a task of the class is counted in the root
* domain that took it, which the CPU the task is on does not tell:
@@ -4289,6 +4299,16 @@ int sched_dl_overflow(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
*/
counted = task_has_dl_policy(p) && p->dl.dl_bw_cpu >= 0 &&
p->dl.dl_bw_gen == dl_bw_gen;
+
+ /*
+ * !deadline task may carry old deadline bandwidth. The same
+ * bandwidth, counted, is nothing to admit; not counted, a special
+ * entity given a reservation of its own, or a task a rebuild left
+ * out, it is admitted as new below.
+ */
+ if (new_bw == p->dl.dl_bw && counted)
+ return 0;
+
cpu = counted ? p->dl.dl_bw_cpu : task_cpu(p);
dl_b = dl_bw_of(cpu);

@@ -4318,7 +4338,6 @@ int sched_dl_overflow(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
if (counted)
__dl_sub(dl_b, p->dl.dl_bw, cpus);
__dl_add(dl_b, new_bw, cpus);
- dl_change_utilization(p, new_bw);
err = 0;
} else if (!dl_policy(policy) && task_has_dl_policy(p)) {
/*
@@ -4368,6 +4387,20 @@ int sched_dl_overflow(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
void __setparam_dl(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *attr)
{
struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;
+ u64 period = attr->sched_period ?: attr->sched_deadline;
+
+ /*
+ * The bandwidth of a special entity is counted on no runqueue, and
+ * the request tells one, the flags of the entity being those of the
+ * parameters it had. The rest have theirs changed here, where their
+ * parameters are:
+ * switched_to_dl() hands it to the runqueue of a task that enters
+ * the class, and a task that priority inheritance boosted into the
+ * class is in it already, so nothing dequeues it and enqueues it
+ * back for that.
+ */
+ if (!(attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV))
+ dl_change_utilization(p, to_ratio(period, attr->sched_runtime));

dl_se->dl_runtime = attr->sched_runtime;
dl_se->dl_deadline = attr->sched_deadline;
--
2.47.3