From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 09/12] sched/deadline: Do not take a waking task's bandwidth off a runqueue it left
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 10:10:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <828cd80ec6e4764f04f8667fc98d7aa22d2bf076.1793804635.git.mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1793804635.git.mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
A deadline task that wakes on another CPU has its bandwidth taken off
the runqueue it slept on by migrate_task_rq_dl(), from set_task_cpu(),
and charged to the one it wakes on by the enqueue that follows. That
enqueue can be left to the target CPU through the wake list, and
try_to_wake_up() returns before it runs: the task's task_cpu() is then
the CPU it wakes on while its bandwidth is on no runqueue at all.
sched_setattr() of that task meanwhile finds it off the runqueues, and
dl_change_utilization() takes its old bandwidth off the runqueue of
task_cpu(), which never held it. this_bw of that CPU underflows, which
costs every other task and the fair server there their own, for good.
switched_from_dl() leaves the class through the same hole.
Reaching it needs a deadline task whose wakeup migrates, which asks for
more than one CPU in its root domain and for them to be taken. It is
easier to reach with CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC=y, where a task blocked on
a mutex is migrated to the CPU of its owner and wakes back on its own.
In 8 VMs of 8 vCPUs, a task of 10ms every 100ms that sleeps and wakes in
a partition root of two CPUs, both taken by deadline tasks of an earlier
deadline, its runtime changed between 10ms and 20ms from a CPU outside,
warns in all 8 within a second, and the warnings spread to the idle
task's accounting of both CPUs:
WARNING: kernel/sched/deadline.c:352 at dl_rq_change_utilization+0x71/0x2e0, CPU#0: wake_race/109
__sub_rq_bw(): this_bw underflow
WARNING: kernel/sched/deadline.c:316 at task_contending+0x244/0x260, CPU#6: swapper/6/0
__add_running_bw(): running_bw overflow
Record that window in the entity, as dl_bw_offrq, and leave the
runqueue alone while it is set: the enqueue to come charges the CPU the
task wakes on, with the new bandwidth, which __setparam_dl() sets right
after sched_dl_overflow(). add_rq_bw() clears it, so every path that
charges a runqueue does. The 8 VMs above warn no more. deadline_bw_test,
added later in this series, has params_waking for this: without this
change it fails on every one of those VMs, and random_mix on one of
three.
Fixes: 8fd27231c330 ("sched/deadline: Track the "total rq utilization" too")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 0633a73579db..8ffc076a485f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ struct sched_dl_entity {
unsigned int dl_defer_running : 1;
unsigned int dl_defer_idle : 1;
unsigned int dl_bw_attached : 1;
+ unsigned int dl_bw_offrq : 1;
/*
* Bandwidth enforcement timer. Each -deadline task has its
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 8ead9b050dfc..a8906cf96640 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ void __sub_rq_bw(u64 dl_bw, struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
static inline
void add_rq_bw(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
{
+ dl_se->dl_bw_offrq = 0;
if (!dl_entity_is_special(dl_se))
__add_rq_bw(dl_se->dl_bw, dl_rq);
}
@@ -435,6 +436,14 @@ static void dl_change_utilization(struct task_struct *p, u64 new_bw)
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.
+ */
+ if (p->dl.dl_bw_offrq)
+ return;
+
dl_rq_change_utilization(task_rq(p), &p->dl, new_bw);
}
@@ -2785,6 +2794,12 @@ static void migrate_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused
cancel_inactive_timer(&p->dl);
}
sub_rq_bw(&p->dl, &rq->dl);
+ /*
+ * Until the enqueue on the CPU it wakes on charges it there, which
+ * add_rq_bw() tells of, this bandwidth is on no runqueue: the rq of
+ * task_cpu() is not the one it was taken from.
+ */
+ p->dl.dl_bw_offrq = 1;
rq_unlock(rq, &rf);
}
@@ -3736,7 +3751,9 @@ static void switched_from_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
dl_task_release_bw(p, dl_task_root_domain_cpu(p));
released = true;
}
- sub_rq_bw(&p->dl, &rq->dl);
+ if (!p->dl.dl_bw_offrq)
+ sub_rq_bw(&p->dl, &rq->dl);
+ p->dl.dl_bw_offrq = 0;
/*
* Released: reset the parameters, as inactive_task_timer()
* does. Kept, they would make the task one with bandwidth to
@@ -4191,6 +4208,7 @@ static void __dl_clear_params(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
dl_se->dl_defer = 0;
dl_se->dl_defer_running = 0;
dl_se->dl_defer_armed = 0;
+ dl_se->dl_bw_offrq = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
dl_se->pi_se = dl_se;
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-04 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-04 15:10 [PATCH 00/12] sched/deadline: bandwidth accounting fixes and selftests Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 01/12] sched: Reject SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_PARAMS before reserving deadline bandwidth Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:30 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:52 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 02/12] sched/deadline: Do not divide by zero active CPUs of a root domain Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 03/12] sched/deadline: Do not BUG() on a deadline task with no active CPU allowed Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:39 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 04/12] sched/deadline: Do not lose a throttled task switched out and back Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:42 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 05/12] sched/deadline: Do not release a departing sleeper's bandwidth twice Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:33 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 06/12] selftests/sched: Add a test of SCHED_DEADLINE policy round trips Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 07/12] sched/deadline: Keep departing bandwidth across a root domain rebuild Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 08/12] selftests/sched: Test SCHED_DEADLINE " Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2026-11-04 15:45 ` [PATCH 09/12] sched/deadline: Do not take a waking task's bandwidth off a runqueue it left sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 10/12] sched/debug: Show the deadline bandwidth of each runqueue Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 11/12] sched/deadline: Rebuild the root domains' accounting without cpusets too Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 12/12] selftests/sched: Add a test of SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth accounting Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-11-04 15:52 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 20:24 ` [PATCH 00/12] sched/deadline: bandwidth accounting fixes and selftests Mathieu Desnoyers
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