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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, David, 在 2026/11/10 21:03, David CARLIER 写道: > Hi Tao > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2026 at 12:50, Tao Cui > wrote: > > From: Tao Cui > > > Hello, > > This series fixes nine robustness issues in the example schedulers > scx_pair, scx_flatcg, scx_qmap and scx_userland. > > scx_flatcg resets its stats baseline on restart (stale counters print > as u64 underflow garbage) and rejects a stats interval that puts > nanosleep in an error loop (a negative or non-finite -i busy-spins at > 100% CPU). scx_pair stops aborting the scheduler when the dispatching > cgroup goes away mid-dispatch, gates attach on an interrupted > initialization instead of running with a half-built cgrp_q_arr, resets > pair_id on restart, and cleans up a dead busy-check whose fall-through > clears another cgroup's busy marker. scx_qmap documents the options it > actually accepts and resets its hier stats baseline on restart. > scx_userland bounds the batch against the dispatch buffer instead of > overflowing it 13ms in, and rejects batch size 0, which livelocks the > machine until the stall watchdog fires. > > Verified in qemu on tj/sched_ext for-next (5b740a72b55c), same > kernel and config with and without each patch, comparing stock and > patched binaries: a scx_flatcg restart prints six > u64-underflow garbage counters on stock and zeros with patch 1; a > non-finite -i busy-spins ~17k EINVAL lines in 3s on stock and is > rejected at parse time with patch 2; SIGINT storms abort 20/30 > interrupted inits on stock with the scheduler never loading and exit > 30/30 clean with patch 4; a scx_pair restart aborts 7ms in with a > stale pair_id on stock and runs clean for its full window with patch > 5; an oversized scx_userland batch aborts 13ms in with "dispatch > buffer overflow" on stock and survives 25s with patch 9; and batch > size 0, which livelocks the machine until the stall watchdog fires > (spinner progress collapses to ~1%), is rejected immediately with > patch 8. Beyond the A/B pairs: the scx_pair cgid-cache churn window > is too narrow to drive (40 rounds clean on both binaries; patch 3 is > graded by inspection), the qmap synopsis diff shows exactly the three > added options (patch 6), and the hier stats baseline was verified with > a clang-23.1.5-built scx_qmap run through restart cycles (patch 7, > hier stats clean throughout). > > Based on sched_ext/for-next (5b740a72b55c). > > Tao Cui (9): >   tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: Reset the stats baseline on restart >   tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: Validate the stats interval >   tools/sched_ext: scx_pair: Don't abort when the dispatching cgroup >     goes away >   tools/sched_ext: scx_pair: Don't attach after an interrupted >     initialization >   tools/sched_ext: scx_pair: Reset pair_id on restart >   tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap: Add the missing options to the usage >     synopsis >   tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap: Reset the hier stats baseline on restart >   tools/sched_ext: scx_userland: Check dispatch buffer slots before >     inserting >   tools/sched_ext: scx_userland: Reject batch size 0 > >  tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.c       |  7 ++++++- >  tools/sched_ext/scx_pair.bpf.c     | 12 ++++++++++-- >  tools/sched_ext/scx_pair.c         | 14 ++++++++++++-- >  tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.c         |  3 ++- >  tools/sched_ext/scx_userland.bpf.c |  8 ++++++++ >  tools/sched_ext/scx_userland.c     |  5 +++++ >  6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.53.0 > > > I might be missing something, but the cover letter mentions a scx_pair busy-check cleanup that isn't > in the series, and the verification paragraph swaps patches 8 and 9 it seems. > > hope it helps.  You're right on both counts. Thanks for the careful read. The busy-check sentence is a leftover. The series originally included that cleanup, but I dropped it before posting because it became clear the path it removed has no observable behavioral difference (the would-be hijacking update always fails with -EBUSY anyway). I neglected to update the cover letter accordingly. The patch 8/9 swap is also just an editing mistake from the same late rewrite of the verification paragraph. Thanks, Tao