Re: [PATCH v3] sched/eevdf: Fix vprot across reweighting

From: Kayra Cizmeci

Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 07:02:16 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> Le vendredi 16 oct. 2026 à 12:45:45 (+0300), Kayra Cizmeci a écrit :


> > > se != curr so why is this needed?
> >
> > sched_change_begin() sets .running as task_current_donor(), then if
> > .running is true calls put_prev_task(). put_prev_task_fair() sets
> > cfs_rq->curr to NULL. While the task still is the donor. Then we enter
> > sched_change_end(), we call enqueue_task() with cfs_rq->curr == NULL but
> > the donor is still p. There is set_next_task() call afterwards, but it
> > does not sets protection since its called with SNT_NORMAL.
>
> okay, but we don't want to spread this all over the code.
> reweight_eevdf/scale_entity is doing this already.
>
> The below should do the stuff while keeping the computation in reweight_eevdf:
>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 0feec172fd37..c212c6aa9691 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4863,10 +4863,11 @@ rescale_entity(struct sched_entity *se, unsigned long weight, bool rel_vprot)
> }
>
> static void reweight_eevdf(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
> - unsigned long weight, bool on_rq)
> + unsigned long weight, bool update_vprot)
> {
> bool curr = cfs_rq->curr == se;
> bool rel_vprot = false;
> + bool on_rq = se->on_rq;
> u64 avruntime = 0;
>
> if (se->h_load.weight == weight)
> @@ -4878,22 +4879,25 @@ static void reweight_eevdf(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
> se->deadline -= avruntime;
> se->rel_deadline = 1;
> if (curr && protect_slice(se)) {
> - se->vprot -= avruntime;
> rel_vprot = true;
> }
>
> cfs_rq->h_nr_queued--;
> if (!curr)
> __dequeue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
> + } else if (update_vprot) {
> + avruntime = se->vruntime;
> + rel_vprot = true;
> }
>
> + if (rel_vprot)
> + se->vprot -= avruntime;
> +
> rescale_entity(se, weight, rel_vprot);
>
> update_load_set(&se->h_load, weight);
>
> if (on_rq) {
> - if (rel_vprot)
> - se->vprot += avruntime;
> se->deadline += avruntime;
> se->rel_deadline = 0;
> se->vruntime = avruntime - se->vlag;
> @@ -4902,6 +4906,12 @@ static void reweight_eevdf(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
> __enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
> cfs_rq->h_nr_queued++;
> }
> +
> + if (rel_vprot)
> + se->vprot += avruntime;
> + else if (curr || update_vprot)
> + se->vprot = se->vruntime;
> +
> }
>
> static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
> @@ -4965,7 +4975,7 @@ static void reweight_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
> for_each_sched_entity(se)
> weight = __calc_prop_weight(cfs_rq_of(se), se, weight);
>
> - reweight_eevdf(&rq->cfs, &p->se, weight, p->se.on_rq);
> + reweight_eevdf(&rq->cfs, &p->se, weight, false);
> }
>
> static inline int throttled_hierarchy(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
> @@ -8200,7 +8210,7 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
> weight = enqueue_hierarchy(p, flags);
>
> if (!curr) {
> - reweight_eevdf(cfs_rq, se, weight, false);
> + reweight_eevdf(cfs_rq, se, weight, task_current_donor(rq, p));
> place_entity(cfs_rq, se, flags | ENQUEUE_QUEUED);
> __enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
> }

On the old code on_rq was always false. But because enqueue_hierarchy(),
se->on_rq is always true. So this just goes to the other path in
reweight_eevdf().

Also, vruntime can move in place_entity() too.

Thanks!
Kayra