[PATCH v2 02/10] sched: Use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() for preempt_dynamic_mode

From: Peter Zijlstra

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 08:09:38 EST


Robots figured out you can read and write this concurrently and got
'upset'. Gemini even noted sched_dynamic_show() can generate
'confusing' output if it observed different values during the
printing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 15 ++++++++-------
kernel/sched/debug.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7743,7 +7743,7 @@ static void __sched_dynamic_update(int m
break;
}

- preempt_dynamic_mode = mode;
+ WRITE_ONCE(preempt_dynamic_mode, mode);
}

void sched_dynamic_update(int mode)
@@ -7784,12 +7784,13 @@ static void __init preempt_dynamic_init(
}
}

-# define PREEMPT_MODEL_ACCESSOR(mode) \
- bool preempt_model_##mode(void) \
- { \
- WARN_ON_ONCE(preempt_dynamic_mode == preempt_dynamic_undefined); \
- return preempt_dynamic_mode == preempt_dynamic_##mode; \
- } \
+# define PREEMPT_MODEL_ACCESSOR(mode) \
+ bool preempt_model_##mode(void) \
+ { \
+ int mode = READ_ONCE(preempt_dynamic_mode); \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(mode == preempt_dynamic_undefined); \
+ return mode == preempt_dynamic_##mode; \
+ } \
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_model_##mode)

PREEMPT_MODEL_ACCESSOR(none);
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ static ssize_t sched_dynamic_write(struc
static int sched_dynamic_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
int i = (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY)) * 2;
+ int mode = READ_ONCE(preempt_dynamic_mode);
int j;

/* Count entries in NULL terminated preempt_modes */
@@ -247,10 +248,10 @@ static int sched_dynamic_show(struct seq
j -= !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PREEMPT_LAZY);

for (; i < j; i++) {
- if (preempt_dynamic_mode == i)
+ if (mode == i)
seq_puts(m, "(");
seq_puts(m, preempt_modes[i]);
- if (preempt_dynamic_mode == i)
+ if (mode == i)
seq_puts(m, ")");

seq_puts(m, " ");