Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-ext.rst which gives a high-level overview
and pointers to the examples.

v6: - Add paragraph explaining debug dump.

v5: - Updated to reflect /sys/kernel interface change. Kconfig options
      added.

v4: - README improved, reformatted in markdown and renamed to README.md.

v3: - Added tools/sched_ext/README.

    - Dropped _example prefix from scheduler names.

v2: - Apply minor edits suggested by Bagas. Caveats section dropped as all
      of them are addressed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

Currently, a dsq is always a FIFO. A task which is dispatched earlier gets
consumed or executed earlier. While this is sufficient when dsq's are used
for simple staging areas for tasks which are ready to execute, it'd make
dsq's a lot more useful if they can implement custom ordering.

This patch adds a vtime-ordered priority queue to dsq's. When the BPF
scheduler dispatches a task with the new scx_bpf_dispatch_vtime() helper, it
can specify the vtime tha the task should be inserted at and the task is
inserted into the priority queue in the dsq which is ordered according to
time_before64() comparison of the vtime values.

A DSQ can either be a FIFO or priority queue and automatically switches
between the two depending on whether scx_bpf_dispatch() or
scx_bpf_dispatch_vtime() is used. Using the wrong variant while the DSQ
already has the other type queued is not allowed and triggers an ops error.
Built-in DSQs must always be FIFOs.

This makes it very easy for the BPF schedulers to implement proper vtime
based scheduling within each dsq very easy and efficient at a negligible
cost in terms of code complexity and overhead.

scx_simple and scx_example_flatcg are updated to default to weighted
vtime scheduling (the latter within each cgroup). FIFO scheduling can be
selected with -f option.

v4: - As allowing mixing priority queue and FIFO on the same DSQ sometimes
      led to unexpected starvations, DSQs now error out if both modes are
      used at the same time and the built-in DSQs are no longer allowed to
      be priority queues.

    - Explicit type struct scx_dsq_node added to contain fields needed to be
      linked on DSQs. This will be used to implement stateful iterator.

    - Tasks are now always linked on dsq->list whether the DSQ is in FIFO or
      PRIQ mode. This confines PRIQ related complexities to the enqueue and
      dequeue paths. Other paths only need to look at dsq->list. This will
      also ease implementing BPF iterator.

    - Print p->scx.dsq_flags in debug dump.

v3: - SCX_TASK_DSQ_ON_PRIQ flag is moved from p->scx.flags into its own
      p->scx.dsq_flags. The flag is protected with the dsq lock unlike other
      flags in p->scx.flags. This led to flag corruption in some cases.

    - Add comments explaining the interaction between using consumption of
      p->scx.slice to determine vtime progress and yielding.

v2: - p->scx.dsq_vtime was not initialized on load or across cgroup
      migrations leading to some tasks being stalled for extended period of
      time depending on how saturated the machine is. Fixed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

The core-sched support is composed of the following parts:

- task_struct->scx.core_sched_at is added. This is a timestamp which can be
  used to order tasks. Depending on whether the BPF scheduler implements
  custom ordering, it tracks either global FIFO ordering of all tasks or
  local-DSQ ordering within the dispatched tasks on a CPU.

- prio_less() is updated to call scx_prio_less() when comparing SCX tasks.
  scx_prio_less() calls ops.core_sched_before() if available or uses the
  core_sched_at timestamp. For global FIFO ordering, the BPF scheduler
  doesn't need to do anything. Otherwise, it should implement
  ops.core_sched_before() which reflects the ordering.

- When core-sched is enabled, balance_scx() balances all SMT siblings so
  that they all have tasks dispatched if necessary before pick_task_scx() is
  called. pick_task_scx() picks between the current task and the first
  dispatched task on the local DSQ based on availability and the
  core_sched_at timestamps. Note that FIFO ordering is expected among the
  already dispatched tasks whether running or on the local DSQ, so this path
  always compares core_sched_at instead of calling into
  ops.core_sched_before().

qmap_core_sched_before() is added to scx_qmap. It scales the
distances from the heads of the queues to compare the tasks across different
priority queues and seems to behave as expected.

v3: Fixed build error when !CONFIG_SCHED_SMT reported by Andrea Righi.

v2: Sched core added the const qualifiers to prio_less task arguments.
    Explicitly drop them for ops.core_sched_before() task arguments. BPF
    enforces access control through the verifier, so the qualifier isn't
    actually operative and only gets in the way when interacting with
    various helpers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>

PM operations freeze userspace. Some BPF schedulers have active userspace
component and may misbehave as expected across PM events. While the system
is frozen, nothing too interesting is happening in terms of scheduling and
we can get by just fine with the fallback FIFO behavior. Let's make things
easier by always bypassing the BPF scheduler while PM events are in
progress.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

Add ops.cpu_online/offline() which are invoked when CPUs come online and
offline respectively. As the enqueue path already automatically bypasses
tasks to the local dsq on a deactivated CPU, BPF schedulers are guaranteed
to see tasks only on CPUs which are between online() and offline().

If the BPF scheduler doesn't implement ops.cpu_online/offline(), the
scheduler is automatically exited with SCX_ECODE_RESTART |
SCX_ECODE_RSN_HOTPLUG. Userspace can implement CPU hotpplug support
trivially by simply reinitializing and reloading the scheduler.

scx_qmap is updated to print out online CPUs on hotplug events. Other
schedulers are updated to restart based on ecode.

v3: - The previous implementation added @reason to
      sched_class.rq_on/offline() to distinguish between CPU hotplug events
      and topology updates. This was buggy and fragile as the methods are
      skipped if the current state equals the target state. Instead, add
      scx_rq_[de]activate() which are directly called from
      sched_cpu_de/activate(). This also allows ops.cpu_on/offline() to
      sleep which can be useful.

    - ops.dispatch() could be called on a CPU that the BPF scheduler was
      told to be offline. The dispatch patch is updated to bypass in such
      cases.

v2: - To accommodate lock ordering change between scx_cgroup_rwsem and
      cpus_read_lock(), CPU hotplug operations are put into its own SCX_OPI
      block and enabled eariler during scx_ope_enable() so that
      cpus_read_lock() can be dropped before acquiring scx_cgroup_rwsem.

    - Auto exit with ECODE added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

Scheduler classes are strictly ordered and when a higher priority class has
tasks to run, the lower priority ones lose access to the CPU. Being able to
monitor and act on these events are necessary for use cases includling
strict core-scheduling and latency management.

This patch adds two operations ops.cpu_acquire() and .cpu_release(). The
former is invoked when a CPU becomes available to the BPF scheduler and the
opposite for the latter. This patch also implements
scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() which can be called from .cpu_release() to trigger
requeueing of all tasks in the local dsq of the CPU so that the tasks can be
reassigned to other available CPUs.

scx_pair is updated to use .cpu_acquire/release() along with
%SCX_KICK_WAIT to make the pair scheduling guarantee strict even when a CPU
is preempted by a higher priority scheduler class.

scx_qmap is updated to use .cpu_acquire/release() to empty the local
dsq of a preempted CPU. A similar approach can be adopted by BPF schedulers
that want to have a tight control over latency.

v4: Use the new SCX_KICK_IDLE to wake up a CPU after re-enqueueing.

v3: Drop the const qualifier from scx_cpu_release_args.task. BPF enforces
    access control through the verifier, so the qualifier isn't actually
    operative and only gets in the way when interacting with various
    helpers.

v2: Add p->scx.kf_mask annotation to allow calling scx_bpf_reenqueue_local()
    from ops.cpu_release() nested inside ops.init() and other sleepable
    operations.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

If set when calling scx_bpf_kick_cpu(), the invoking CPU will busy wait for
the kicked cpu to enter the scheduler. See the following for example usage:

  https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/blob/main/scheds/c/scx_pair.bpf.c

v2: - Updated to fit the updated kick_cpus_irq_workfn() implementation.

    - Include SCX_KICK_WAIT related information in debug dump.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

When some SCX operations are in flight, it is known that the subject task's
rq lock is held throughout which makes it safe to access certain fields of
the task - e.g. its current task_group. We want to add SCX kfunc helpers
that can make use of this guarantee - e.g. to help determining the currently
associated CPU cgroup from the task's current task_group.

As it'd be dangerous call such a helper on a task which isn't rq lock
protected, the helper should be able to verify the input task and reject
accordingly. This patch adds sched_ext_entity.kf_tasks[] that track the
tasks which are currently being operated on by a terminal SCX operation. The
new SCX_CALL_OP_[2]TASK[_RET]() can be used when invoking SCX operations
which take tasks as arguments and the scx_kf_allowed_on_arg_tasks() can be
used by kfunc helpers to verify the input task status.

Note that as sched_ext_entity.kf_tasks[] can't handle nesting, the tracking
is currently only limited to terminal SCX operations. If needed in the
future, this restriction can be removed by moving the tracking to the task
side with a couple per-task counters.

v2: Updated to reflect the addition of SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

Allow BPF schedulers to indicate tickless operation by setting p->scx.slice
to SCX_SLICE_INF. A CPU whose current task has infinte slice goes into
tickless operation.

scx_central is updated to use tickless operations for all tasks and
instead use a BPF timer to expire slices. This also uses the SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT
and task state tracking added by the previous patches.

Currently, there is no way to pin the timer on the central CPU, so it may
end up on one of the worker CPUs; however, outside of that, the worker CPUs
can go tickless both while running sched_ext tasks and idling.

With schbench running, scx_central shows:

  root@test ~# grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts
  LOC:     142024        656        664        449   Local timer interrupts
  LOC:     161663        663        665        449   Local timer interrupts

Without it:

  root@test ~ [SIGINT]# grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts
  LOC:     188778       3142       3793       3993   Local timer interrupts
  LOC:     198993       5314       6323       6438   Local timer interrupts

While scx_central itself is too barebone to be useful as a
production scheduler, a more featureful central scheduler can be built using
the same approach. Google's experience shows that such an approach can have
significant benefits for certain applications such as VM hosting.

v4: Allow operation even if BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN is not available.

v3: Pin the central scheduler's timer on the central_cpu using
    BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN.

v2: Convert to BPF inline iterators.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

Being able to track the task runnable and running state transitions are
useful for a variety of purposes including latency tracking and load factor
calculation.

Currently, BPF schedulers don't have a good way of tracking these
transitions. Becoming runnable can be determined from ops.enqueue() but
becoming quiescent can only be inferred from the lack of subsequent enqueue.
Also, as the local dsq can have multiple tasks and some events are handled
in the sched_ext core, it's difficult to determine when a given task starts
and stops executing.

This patch adds sched_ext_ops.runnable(), .running(), .stopping() and
.quiescent() operations to track the task runnable and running state
transitions. They're mostly self explanatory; however, we want to ensure
that running <-> stopping transitions are always contained within runnable
<-> quiescent transitions which is a bit different from how the scheduler
core behaves. This adds a bit of complication. See the comment in
dequeue_task_scx().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

The dispatch path retries if the local DSQ is still empty after
ops.dispatch() either dispatched or consumed a task. This is both out of
necessity and for convenience. It has to retry because the dispatch path
might lose the tasks to dequeue while the rq lock is released while trying
to migrate tasks across CPUs, and the retry mechanism makes ops.dispatch()
implementation easier as it only needs to make some forward progress each
iteration.

However, this makes it possible for ops.dispatch() to stall CPUs by
repeatedly dispatching ineligible tasks. If all CPUs are stalled that way,
the watchdog or sysrq handler can't run and the system can't be saved. Let's
address the issue by breaking out of the dispatch loop after 32 iterations.

It is unlikely but not impossible for ops.dispatch() to legitimately go over
the iteration limit. We want to come back to the dispatch path in such cases
as not doing so risks stalling the CPU by idling with runnable tasks
pending. As the previous task is still current in balance_scx(),
resched_curr() doesn't do anything - it will just get cleared. Let's instead
use scx_kick_bpf() which will trigger reschedule after switching to the next
task which will likely be the idle task.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

This patch adds a new example scheduler, scx_central, which demonstrates
central scheduling where one CPU is responsible for making all scheduling
decisions in the system using scx_bpf_kick_cpu(). The central CPU makes
scheduling decisions for all CPUs in the system, queues tasks on the
appropriate local dsq's and preempts the worker CPUs. The worker CPUs in
turn preempt the central CPU when it needs tasks to run.

Currently, every CPU depends on its own tick to expire the current task. A
follow-up patch implementing tickless support for sched_ext will allow the
worker CPUs to go full tickless so that they can run completely undisturbed.

v3: - Kumar fixed a bug where the dispatch path could overflow the dispatch
      buffer if too many are dispatched to the fallback DSQ.

    - Use the new SCX_KICK_IDLE to wake up non-central CPUs.

    - Dropped '-p' option.

v2: - Use RESIZABLE_ARRAY() instead of fixed MAX_CPUS and use SCX_BUG[_ON]()
      to simplify error handling.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>

It's often useful to wake up and/or trigger reschedule on other CPUs. This
patch adds scx_bpf_kick_cpu() kfunc helper that BPF scheduler can call to
kick the target CPU into the scheduling path.

As a sched_ext task relinquishes its CPU only after its slice is depleted,
this patch also adds SCX_KICK_PREEMPT and SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT which clears the
slice of the target CPU's current task to guarantee that sched_ext's
scheduling path runs on the CPU.

If SCX_KICK_IDLE is specified, the target CPU is kicked iff the CPU is idle
to guarantee that the target CPU will go through at least one full sched_ext
scheduling cycle after the kicking. This can be used to wake up idle CPUs
without incurring unnecessary overhead if it isn't currently idle.

As a demonstration of how backward compatibility can be supported using BPF
CO-RE, tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h is added. It provides
__COMPAT_scx_bpf_kick_cpu_IDLE() which uses SCX_KICK_IDLE if available or
becomes a regular kicking otherwise. This allows schedulers to use the new
SCX_KICK_IDLE while maintaining support for older kernels. The plan is to
temporarily use compat helpers to ease API updates and drop them after a few
kernel releases.

v5: - SCX_KICK_IDLE added. Note that this also adds a compat mechanism for
      schedulers so that they can support kernels without SCX_KICK_IDLE.
      This is useful as a demonstration of how new feature flags can be
      added in a backward compatible way.

    - kick_cpus_irq_workfn() reimplemented so that it touches the pending
      cpumasks only as necessary to reduce kicking overhead on machines with
      a lot of CPUs.

    - tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h added.

v4: - Move example scheduler to its own patch.

v3: - Make scx_example_central switch all tasks by default.

    - Convert to BPF inline iterators.

v2: - Julia Lawall reported that scx_example_central can overflow the
      dispatch buffer and malfunction. As scheduling for other CPUs can't be
      handled by the automatic retry mechanism, fix by implementing an
      explicit overflow and retry handling.

    - Updated to use generic BPF cpumask helpers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

There are states which are interesting but don't quite fit the interface
exposed under /sys/kernel/sched_ext. Add tools/scx_show_state.py to show
them.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

If a BPF scheduler triggers an error, the scheduler is aborted and the
system is reverted to the built-in scheduler. In the process, a lot of
information which may be useful for figuring out what happened can be lost.

This patch adds debug dump which captures information which may be useful
for debugging including runqueue and runnable thread states at the time of
failure. The following shows a debug dump after triggering the watchdog:

  root@test ~# os/work/tools/sched_ext/build/bin/scx_qmap -t 100
  stats  : enq=1 dsp=0 delta=1 deq=0
  stats  : enq=90 dsp=90 delta=0 deq=0
  stats  : enq=156 dsp=156 delta=0 deq=0
  stats  : enq=218 dsp=218 delta=0 deq=0
  stats  : enq=255 dsp=255 delta=0 deq=0
  stats  : enq=271 dsp=271 delta=0 deq=0
  stats  : enq=284 dsp=284 delta=0 deq=0
  stats  : enq=293 dsp=293 delta=0 deq=0

  DEBUG DUMP
  ================================================================================

  kworker/u32:12[320] triggered exit kind 1026:
    runnable task stall (stress[1530] failed to run for 6.841s)

  Backtrace:
    scx_watchdog_workfn+0x136/0x1c0
    process_scheduled_works+0x2b5/0x600
    worker_thread+0x269/0x360
    kthread+0xeb/0x110
    ret_from_fork+0x36/0x40
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

  QMAP FIFO[0]:
  QMAP FIFO[1]:
  QMAP FIFO[2]: 1436
  QMAP FIFO[3]:
  QMAP FIFO[4]:

  CPU states
  ----------

  CPU 0   : nr_run=1 ops_qseq=244
	    curr=swapper/0[0] class=idle_sched_class

    QMAP: dsp_idx=1 dsp_cnt=0

    R stress[1530] -6841ms
	scx_state/flags=3/0x1 ops_state/qseq=2/20
	sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a)
	cpus=ff

      QMAP: force_local=0

      asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20

  CPU 2   : nr_run=2 ops_qseq=142
	    curr=swapper/2[0] class=idle_sched_class

    QMAP: dsp_idx=1 dsp_cnt=0

    R sshd[1703] -5905ms
	scx_state/flags=3/0x9 ops_state/qseq=2/88
	sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a)
	cpus=ff

      QMAP: force_local=1

      __x64_sys_ppoll+0xf6/0x120
      do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

    R fish[1539] -4141ms
	scx_state/flags=3/0x9 ops_state/qseq=2/124
	sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a)
	cpus=ff

      QMAP: force_local=1

      futex_wait+0x60/0xe0
      do_futex+0x109/0x180
      __x64_sys_futex+0x117/0x190
      do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

  CPU 3   : nr_run=2 ops_qseq=162
	    curr=kworker/u32:12[320] class=ext_sched_class

    QMAP: dsp_idx=1 dsp_cnt=0

   *R kworker/u32:12[320] +0ms
	scx_state/flags=3/0xd ops_state/qseq=0/0
	sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a)
	cpus=ff

      QMAP: force_local=0

      scx_dump_state+0x613/0x6f0
      scx_ops_error_irq_workfn+0x1f/0x40
      irq_work_run_list+0x82/0xd0
      irq_work_run+0x14/0x30
      __sysvec_irq_work+0x40/0x140
      sysvec_irq_work+0x60/0x70
      asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20
      scx_watchdog_workfn+0x15f/0x1c0
      process_scheduled_works+0x2b5/0x600
      worker_thread+0x269/0x360
      kthread+0xeb/0x110
      ret_from_fork+0x36/0x40
      ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

    R kworker/3:2[1436] +0ms
	scx_state/flags=3/0x9 ops_state/qseq=2/160
	sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a)
	cpus=08

      QMAP: force_local=0

      kthread+0xeb/0x110
      ret_from_fork+0x36/0x40
      ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

  CPU 7   : nr_run=0 ops_qseq=76
	    curr=swapper/7[0] class=idle_sched_class


  ================================================================================

  EXIT: runnable task stall (stress[1530] failed to run for 6.841s)

It shows that CPU 3 was running the watchdog when it triggered the error
condition and the scx_qmap thread has been queued on CPU 0 for over 5
seconds but failed to run. It also prints out scx_qmap specific information
- e.g. which tasks are queued on each FIFO and so on using the dump_*() ops.
This dump has proved pretty useful for developing and debugging BPF
schedulers.

Debug dump is generated automatically when the BPF scheduler exits due to an
error. The debug buffer used in such cases is determined by
sched_ext_ops.exit_dump_len and defaults to 32k. If the debug dump overruns
the available buffer, the output is truncated and marked accordingly.

Debug dump output can also be read through the sched_ext_dump tracepoint.
When read through the tracepoint, there is no length limit.

SysRq-D can be used to trigger debug dump at any time while a BPF scheduler
is loaded. This is non-destructive - the scheduler keeps running afterwards.
The output can be read through the sched_ext_dump tracepoint.

v2: - The size of exit debug dump buffer can now be customized using
      sched_ext_ops.exit_dump_len.

    - sched_ext_ops.dump*() added to enable dumping of BPF scheduler
      specific information.

    - Tracpoint output and SysRq-D triggering added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

It would be useful to see what the sched_ext scheduler state is, and what
scheduler is running, when we're dumping a task's stack. This patch
therefore adds a new print_scx_info() function that's called in the same
context as print_worker_info() and print_stop_info(). An example dump
follows.

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000999
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 13 PID: 2047 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O       6.6.0-work-10323-gb58d4cae8e99-dirty #34
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
  Sched_ext: qmap (enabled+all), task: runnable_at=-17ms
  RIP: 0010:init_module+0x9/0x1000 [test_module]
  ...

v3: - scx_ops_enable_state_str[] definition moved to an earlier patch as
      it's now used by core implementation.

    - Convert jiffy delta to msecs using jiffies_to_msecs() instead of
      multiplying by (HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC). The conversion is implemented in
      jiffies_delta_msecs().

v2: - We are now using scx_ops_enable_state_str[] outside
      CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. Move it outside of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and to the
      top. This was reported by Changwoo and Andrea.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Reported-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

BPF schedulers might not want to schedule certain tasks - e.g. kernel
threads. This patch adds p->scx.disallow which can be set by BPF schedulers
in such cases. The field can be changed anytime and setting it in
ops.prep_enable() guarantees that the task can never be scheduled by
sched_ext.

scx_qmap is updated with the -d option to disallow a specific PID:

  # echo $$
  1092
  # grep -E '(policy)|(ext\.enabled)' /proc/self/sched
  policy                                       :                    0
  ext.enabled                                  :                    0
  # ./set-scx 1092
  # grep -E '(policy)|(ext\.enabled)' /proc/self/sched
  policy                                       :                    7
  ext.enabled                                  :                    0

Run "scx_qmap -p -d 1092" in another terminal.

  # cat /sys/kernel/sched_ext/nr_rejected
  1
  # grep -E '(policy)|(ext\.enabled)' /proc/self/sched
  policy                                       :                    0
  ext.enabled                                  :                    0
  # ./set-scx 1092
  setparam failed for 1092 (Permission denied)

- v4: Refreshed on top of tip:sched/core.

- v3: Update description to reflect /sys/kernel/sched_ext interface change.

- v2: Use atomic_long_t instead of atomic64_t for scx_kick_cpus_pnt_seqs to
      accommodate 32bit archs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

The most common and critical way that a BPF scheduler can misbehave is by
failing to run runnable tasks for too long. This patch implements a
watchdog.

* All tasks record when they become runnable.

* A watchdog work periodically scans all runnable tasks. If any task has
  stayed runnable for too long, the BPF scheduler is aborted.

* scheduler_tick() monitors whether the watchdog itself is stuck. If so, the
  BPF scheduler is aborted.

Because the watchdog only scans the tasks which are currently runnable and
usually very infrequently, the overhead should be negligible.
scx_qmap is updated so that it can be told to stall user and/or
kernel tasks.

A detected task stall looks like the following:

 sched_ext: BPF scheduler "qmap" errored, disabling
 sched_ext: runnable task stall (dbus-daemon[953] failed to run for 6.478s)
    scx_check_timeout_workfn+0x10e/0x1b0
    process_one_work+0x287/0x560
    worker_thread+0x234/0x420
    kthread+0xe9/0x100
    ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

A detected watchdog stall:

 sched_ext: BPF scheduler "qmap" errored, disabling
 sched_ext: runnable task stall (watchdog failed to check in for 5.001s)
    scheduler_tick+0x2eb/0x340
    update_process_times+0x7a/0x90
    tick_sched_timer+0xd8/0x130
    __hrtimer_run_queues+0x178/0x3b0
    hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x390
    __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xb7/0x2b0
    sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x90/0xb0
    asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20
    default_idle+0x14/0x20
    arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20
    default_idle_call+0x50/0x90
    do_idle+0xe8/0x240
    cpu_startup_entry+0x1d/0x20
    kernel_init+0x0/0x190
    start_kernel+0x0/0x392
    start_kernel+0x324/0x392
    x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
    x86_64_start_kernel+0x104/0x109
    secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xce/0xdb

Note that this patch exposes scx_ops_error[_type]() in kernel/sched/ext.h to
inline scx_notify_sched_tick().

v4: - While disabling, cancel_delayed_work_sync(&scx_watchdog_work) was
      being called before forward progress was guaranteed and thus could
      lead to system lockup. Relocated.

    - While enabling, it was comparing msecs against jiffies without
      conversion leading to spurious load failures on lower HZ kernels.
      Fixed.

    - runnable list management is now used by core bypass logic and moved to
      the patch implementing sched_ext core.

v3: - bpf_scx_init_member() was incorrectly comparing ops->timeout_ms
      against SCX_WATCHDOG_MAX_TIMEOUT which is in jiffies without
      conversion leading to spurious load failures in lower HZ kernels.
      Fixed.

v2: - Julia Lawall noticed that the watchdog code was mixing msecs and
      jiffies. Fix by using jiffies for everything.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>

This enables the admin to abort the BPF scheduler and revert to CFS anytime.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

Add two simple example BPF schedulers - simple and qmap.

* simple: In terms of scheduling, it behaves identical to not having any
  operation implemented at all. The two operations it implements are only to
  improve visibility and exit handling. On certain homogeneous
  configurations, this actually can perform pretty well.

* qmap: A fixed five level priority scheduler to demonstrate queueing PIDs
  on BPF maps for scheduling. While not very practical, this is useful as a
  simple example and will be used to demonstrate different features.

v7: - Compat helpers stripped out in prepartion of upstreaming as the
      upstreamed patchset will be the baselinfe. Utility macros that can be
      used to implement compat features are kept.

    - Explicitly disable map autoattach on struct_ops to avoid trying to
      attach twice while maintaining compatbility with older libbpf.

v6: - Common header files reorganized and cleaned up. Compat helpers are
      added to demonstrate how schedulers can maintain backward
      compatibility with older kernels while making use of newly added
      features.

    - simple_select_cpu() added to keep track of the number of local
      dispatches. This is needed because the default ops.select_cpu()
      implementation is updated to dispatch directly and won't call
      ops.enqueue().

    - Updated to reflect the sched_ext API changes. Switching all tasks is
      the default behavior now and scx_qmap supports partial switching when
      `-p` is specified.

    - tools/sched_ext/Kconfig dropped. This will be included in the doc
      instead.

v5: - Improve Makefile. Build artifects are now collected into a separate
      dir which change be changed. Install and help targets are added and
      clean actually cleans everything.

    - MEMBER_VPTR() improved to improve access to structs. ARRAY_ELEM_PTR()
      and RESIZEABLE_ARRAY() are added to support resizable arrays in .bss.

    - Add scx_common.h which provides common utilities to user code such as
      SCX_BUG[_ON]() and RESIZE_ARRAY().

    - Use SCX_BUG[_ON]() to simplify error handling.

v4: - Dropped _example prefix from scheduler names.

v3: - Rename scx_example_dummy to scx_example_simple and restructure a bit
      to ease later additions. Comment updates.

    - Added declarations for BPF inline iterators. In the future, hopefully,
      these will be consolidated into a generic BPF header so that they
      don't need to be replicated here.

v2: - Updated with the generic BPF cpumask helpers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

Implement a new scheduler class sched_ext (SCX), which allows scheduling
policies to be implemented as BPF programs to achieve the following:

1. Ease of experimentation and exploration: Enabling rapid iteration of new
   scheduling policies.

2. Customization: Building application-specific schedulers which implement
   policies that are not applicable to general-purpose schedulers.

3. Rapid scheduler deployments: Non-disruptive swap outs of scheduling
   policies in production environments.

sched_ext leverages BPF’s struct_ops feature to define a structure which
exports function callbacks and flags to BPF programs that wish to implement
scheduling policies. The struct_ops structure exported by sched_ext is
struct sched_ext_ops, and is conceptually similar to struct sched_class. The
role of sched_ext is to map the complex sched_class callbacks to the more
simple and ergonomic struct sched_ext_ops callbacks.

For more detailed discussion on the motivations and overview, please refer
to the cover letter.

Later patches will also add several example schedulers and documentation.

This patch implements the minimum core framework to enable implementation of
BPF schedulers. Subsequent patches will gradually add functionalities
including safety guarantee mechanisms, nohz and cgroup support.

include/linux/sched/ext.h defines struct sched_ext_ops. With the comment on
top, each operation should be self-explanatory. The followings are worth
noting:

- Both "sched_ext" and its shorthand "scx" are used. If the identifier
  already has "sched" in it, "ext" is used; otherwise, "scx".

- In sched_ext_ops, only .name is mandatory. Every operation is optional and
  if omitted a simple but functional default behavior is provided.

- A new policy constant SCHED_EXT is added and a task can select sched_ext
  by invoking sched_setscheduler(2) with the new policy constant. However,
  if the BPF scheduler is not loaded, SCHED_EXT is the same as SCHED_NORMAL
  and the task is scheduled by CFS. When the BPF scheduler is loaded, all
  tasks which have the SCHED_EXT policy are switched to sched_ext.

- To bridge the workflow imbalance between the scheduler core and
  sched_ext_ops callbacks, sched_ext uses simple FIFOs called dispatch
  queues (dsq's). By default, there is one global dsq (SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL), and
  one local per-CPU dsq (SCX_DSQ_LOCAL). SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL is provided for
  convenience and need not be used by a scheduler that doesn't require it.
  SCX_DSQ_LOCAL is the per-CPU FIFO that sched_ext pulls from when putting
  the next task on the CPU. The BPF scheduler can manage an arbitrary number
  of dsq's using scx_bpf_create_dsq() and scx_bpf_destroy_dsq().

- sched_ext guarantees system integrity no matter what the BPF scheduler
  does. To enable this, each task's ownership is tracked through
  p->scx.ops_state and all tasks are put on scx_tasks list. The disable path
  can always recover and revert all tasks back to CFS. See p->scx.ops_state
  and scx_tasks.

- A task is not tied to its rq while enqueued. This decouples CPU selection
  from queueing and allows sharing a scheduling queue across an arbitrary
  subset of CPUs. This adds some complexities as a task may need to be
  bounced between rq's right before it starts executing. See
  dispatch_to_local_dsq() and move_task_to_local_dsq().

- One complication that arises from the above weak association between task
  and rq is that synchronizing with dequeue() gets complicated as dequeue()
  may happen anytime while the task is enqueued and the dispatch path might
  need to release the rq lock to transfer the task. Solving this requires a
  bit of complexity. See the logic around p->scx.sticky_cpu and
  p->scx.ops_qseq.

- Both enable and disable paths are a bit complicated. The enable path
  switches all tasks without blocking to avoid issues which can arise from
  partially switched states (e.g. the switching task itself being starved).
  The disable path can't trust the BPF scheduler at all, so it also has to
  guarantee forward progress without blocking. See scx_ops_enable() and
  scx_ops_disable_workfn().

- When sched_ext is disabled, static_branches are used to shut down the
  entry points from hot paths.

v7: - scx_ops_bypass() was incorrectly and unnecessarily trying to grab
      scx_ops_enable_mutex which can lead to deadlocks in the disable path.
      Fixed.

    - Fixed TASK_DEAD handling bug in scx_ops_enable() path which could lead
      to use-after-free.

    - Consolidated per-cpu variable usages and other cleanups.

v6: - SCX_NR_ONLINE_OPS replaced with SCX_OPI_*_BEGIN/END so that multiple
      groups can be expressed. Later CPU hotplug operations are put into
      their own group.

    - SCX_OPS_DISABLING state is replaced with the new bypass mechanism
      which allows temporarily putting the system into simple FIFO
      scheduling mode bypassing the BPF scheduler. In addition to the shut
      down path, this will also be used to isolate the BPF scheduler across
      PM events. Enabling and disabling the bypass mode requires iterating
      all runnable tasks. rq->scx.runnable_list addition is moved from the
      later watchdog patch.

    - ops.prep_enable() is replaced with ops.init_task() and
      ops.enable/disable() are now called whenever the task enters and
      leaves sched_ext instead of when the task becomes schedulable on
      sched_ext and stops being so. A new operation - ops.exit_task() - is
      called when the task stops being schedulable on sched_ext.

    - scx_bpf_dispatch() can now be called from ops.select_cpu() too. This
      removes the need for communicating local dispatch decision made by
      ops.select_cpu() to ops.enqueue() via per-task storage.
      SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU is added to support the change.

    - SCX_TASK_ENQ_LOCAL which told the BPF scheudler that
      scx_select_cpu_dfl() wants the task to be dispatched to the local DSQ
      was removed. Instead, scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() now dispatches directly
      if it finds a suitable idle CPU. If such behavior is not desired,
      users can use scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() which returns the verdict in a
      bool out param.

    - scx_select_cpu_dfl() was mishandling WAKE_SYNC and could end up
      queueing many tasks on a local DSQ which makes tasks to execute in
      order while other CPUs stay idle which made some hackbench numbers
      really bad. Fixed.

    - The current state of sched_ext can now be monitored through files
      under /sys/sched_ext instead of /sys/kernel/debug/sched/ext. This is
      to enable monitoring on kernels which don't enable debugfs.

    - sched_ext wasn't telling BPF that ops.dispatch()'s @prev argument may
      be NULL and a BPF scheduler which derefs the pointer without checking
      could crash the kernel. Tell BPF. This is currently a bit ugly. A
      better way to annotate this is expected in the future.

    - scx_exit_info updated to carry pointers to message buffers instead of
      embedding them directly. This decouples buffer sizes from API so that
      they can be changed without breaking compatibility.

    - exit_code added to scx_exit_info. This is used to indicate different
      exit conditions on non-error exits and will be used to handle e.g. CPU
      hotplugs.

    - The patch "sched_ext: Allow BPF schedulers to switch all eligible
      tasks into sched_ext" is folded in and the interface is changed so
      that partial switching is indicated with a new ops flag
      %SCX_OPS_SWITCH_PARTIAL. This makes scx_bpf_switch_all() unnecessasry
      and in turn SCX_KF_INIT. ops.init() is now called with
      SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE.

    - Code reorganized so that only the parts necessary to integrate with
      the rest of the kernel are in the header files.

    - Changes to reflect the BPF and other kernel changes including the
      addition of bpf_sched_ext_ops.cfi_stubs.

v5: - To accommodate 32bit configs, p->scx.ops_state is now atomic_long_t
      instead of atomic64_t and scx_dsp_buf_ent.qseq which uses
      load_acquire/store_release is now unsigned long instead of u64.

    - Fix the bug where bpf_scx_btf_struct_access() was allowing write
      access to arbitrary fields.

    - Distinguish kfuncs which can be called from any sched_ext ops and from
      anywhere. e.g. scx_bpf_pick_idle_cpu() can now be called only from
      sched_ext ops.

    - Rename "type" to "kind" in scx_exit_info to make it easier to use on
      languages in which "type" is a reserved keyword.

    - Since cff9b233 ("kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle
      setup"), PF_IDLE is not set on idle tasks which haven't been online
      yet which made scx_task_iter_next_filtered() include those idle tasks
      in iterations leading to oopses. Update scx_task_iter_next_filtered()
      to directly test p->sched_class against idle_sched_class instead of
      using is_idle_task() which tests PF_IDLE.

    - Other updates to match upstream changes such as adding const to
      set_cpumask() param and renaming check_preempt_curr() to
      wakeup_preempt().

v4: - SCHED_CHANGE_BLOCK replaced with the previous
      sched_deq_and_put_task()/sched_enq_and_set_tsak() pair. This is
      because upstream is adaopting a different generic cleanup mechanism.
      Once that lands, the code will be adapted accordingly.

    - task_on_scx() used to test whether a task should be switched into SCX,
      which is confusing. Renamed to task_should_scx(). task_on_scx() now
      tests whether a task is currently on SCX.

    - scx_has_idle_cpus is barely used anymore and replaced with direct
      check on the idle cpumask.

    - SCX_PICK_IDLE_CORE added and scx_pick_idle_cpu() improved to prefer
      fully idle cores.

    - ops.enable() now sees up-to-date p->scx.weight value.

    - ttwu_queue path is disabled for tasks on SCX to avoid confusing BPF
      schedulers expecting ->select_cpu() call.

    - Use cpu_smt_mask() instead of topology_sibling_cpumask() like the rest
      of the scheduler.

v3: - ops.set_weight() added to allow BPF schedulers to track weight changes
      without polling p->scx.weight.

    - move_task_to_local_dsq() was losing SCX-specific enq_flags when
      enqueueing the task on the target dsq because it goes through
      activate_task() which loses the upper 32bit of the flags. Carry the
      flags through rq->scx.extra_enq_flags.

    - scx_bpf_dispatch(), scx_bpf_pick_idle_cpu(), scx_bpf_task_running()
      and scx_bpf_task_cpu() now use the new KF_RCU instead of
      KF_TRUSTED_ARGS to make it easier for BPF schedulers to call them.

    - The kfunc helper access control mechanism implemented through
      sched_ext_entity.kf_mask is improved. Now SCX_CALL_OP*() is always
      used when invoking scx_ops operations.

v2: - balance_scx_on_up() is dropped. Instead, on UP, balance_scx() is
      called from put_prev_taks_scx() and pick_next_task_scx() as necessary.
      To determine whether balance_scx() should be called from
      put_prev_task_scx(), SCX_TASK_DEQD_FOR_SLEEP flag is added. See the
      comment in put_prev_task_scx() for details.

    - sched_deq_and_put_task() / sched_enq_and_set_task() sequences replaced
      with SCHED_CHANGE_BLOCK().

    - Unused all_dsqs list removed. This was a left-over from previous
      iterations.

    - p->scx.kf_mask is added to track and enforce which kfunc helpers are
      allowed. Also, init/exit sequences are updated to make some kfuncs
      always safe to call regardless of the current BPF scheduler state.
      Combined, this should make all the kfuncs safe.

    - BPF now supports sleepable struct_ops operations. Hacky workaround
      removed and operations and kfunc helpers are tagged appropriately.

    - BPF now supports bitmask / cpumask helpers. scx_bpf_get_idle_cpumask()
      and friends are added so that BPF schedulers can use the idle masks
      with the generic helpers. This replaces the hacky kfunc helpers added
      by a separate patch in V1.

    - CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT can no longer be enabled if SCHED_CORE is
      enabled. This restriction will be removed by a later patch which adds
      core-sched support.

    - Add MAINTAINERS entries and other misc changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Co-authored-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>

This adds dummy implementations of sched_ext interfaces which interact with
the scheduler core and hook them in the correct places. As they're all
dummies, this doesn't cause any behavior changes. This is split out to help
reviewing.

v2: balance_scx_on_up() dropped. This will be handled in sched_ext proper.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

A new BPF extensible sched_class will need to dynamically change how a task
picks its sched_class. For example, if the loaded BPF scheduler progs fail,
the tasks will be forced back on CFS even if the task's policy is set to the
new sched_class. To support such mapping, add normal_policy() which wraps
testing for %SCHED_NORMAL. This doesn't cause any behavior changes.

v2: Update the description with more details on the expected use.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

RT, DL, thermal and irq load and utilization metrics need to be decayed and
updated periodically and before consumption to keep the numbers reasonable.
This is currently done from __update_blocked_others() as a part of the fair
class load balance path. Let's factor it out to update_other_load_avgs().
Pure refactor. No functional changes.

This will be used by the new BPF extensible scheduling class to ensure that
the above metrics are properly maintained.

v2: Refreshed on top of tip:sched/core.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

Factor out sched_weight_from/to_cgroup() which convert between scheduler
shares and cgroup weight. No functional change. The factored out functions
will be used by a new BPF extensible sched_class so that the weights can be
exposed to the BPF programs in a way which is consistent cgroup weights and
easier to interpret.

The weight conversions will be used regardless of cgroup usage. It's just
borrowing the cgroup weight range as it's more intuitive.
CGROUP_WEIGHT_MIN/DFL/MAX constants are moved outside CONFIG_CGROUPS so that
the conversion helpers can always be defined.

v2: The helpers are now defined regardless of COFNIG_CGROUPS.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

When a task switches to a new sched_class, the prev and new classes are
notified through ->switched_from() and ->switched_to(), respectively, after
the switching is done.

A new BPF extensible sched_class will have callbacks that allow the BPF
scheduler to keep track of relevant task states (like priority and cpumask).
Those callbacks aren't called while a task is on a different sched_class.
When a task comes back, we wanna tell the BPF progs the up-to-date state
before the task gets enqueued, so we need a hook which is called before the
switching is committed.

This patch adds ->switching_to() which is called during sched_class switch
through check_class_changing() before the task is restored. Also, this patch
exposes check_class_changing/changed() in kernel/sched/sched.h. They will be
used by the new BPF extensible sched_class to implement implicit sched_class
switching which is used e.g. when falling back to CFS when the BPF scheduler
fails or unloads.

This is a prep patch and doesn't cause any behavior changes. The new
operation and exposed functions aren't used yet.

v3: Refreshed on top of tip:sched/core.

v2: Improve patch description w/ details on planned use.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

Currently, during a task weight change, sched core directly calls
reweight_task() defined in fair.c if @p is on CFS. Let's make it a proper
sched_class operation instead. CFS's reweight_task() is renamed to
reweight_task_fair() and now called through sched_class.

While it turns a direct call into an indirect one, set_load_weight() isn't
called from a hot path and this change shouldn't cause any noticeable
difference. This will be used to implement reweight_task for a new BPF
extensible sched_class so that it can keep its cached task weight
up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

A new BPF extensible sched_class will need more control over the forking
process. It wants to be able to fail from sched_cgroup_fork() after the new
task's sched_task_group is initialized so that the loaded BPF program can
prepare the task with its cgroup association is established and reject fork
if e.g. allocation fails.

Allow sched_cgroup_fork() to fail by making it return int instead of void
and adding sched_cancel_fork() to undo sched_fork() in the error path.

sched_cgroup_fork() doesn't fail yet and this patch shouldn't cause any
behavior changes.

v2: Patch description updated to detail the expected use.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

Currently, sched_init() checks that the sched_class'es are in the expected
order by testing each adjacency which is a bit brittle and makes it
cumbersome to add optional sched_class'es. Instead, let's verify whether
they're in the expected order using sched_class_above() which is what
matters.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>

Alan Maguire says:

====================
bpf: support resilient split BTF

Split BPF Type Format (BTF) provides huge advantages in that kernel
modules only have to provide type information for types that they do not
share with the core kernel; for core kernel types, split BTF refers to
core kernel BTF type ids.  So for a STRUCT sk_buff, a module that
uses that structure (or a pointer to it) simply needs to refer to the
core kernel type id, saving the need to define the structure and its many
dependents.  This cuts down on duplication and makes BTF as compact
as possible.

However, there is a downside.  This scheme requires the references from
split BTF to base BTF to be valid not just at encoding time, but at use
time (when the module is loaded).  Even a small change in kernel types
can perturb the type ids in core kernel BTF, and - if the new reproducible
BTF option is not used - pahole's parallel processing of compilation units
can lead to different type ids for the same kernel if the BTF is
regenerated.

So we have a robustness problem for split BTF for cases where a module is
not always compiled at the same time as the kernel.  This problem is
particularly acute for distros which generally want module builders to be
able to compile a module for the lifetime of a Linux stable-based release,
and have it continue to be valid over the lifetime of that release, even
as changes in data structures (and hence BTF types) accrue.  Today it's not
possible to generate BTF for modules that works beyond the initial
kernel it is compiled against - kernel bugfixes etc invalidate the split
BTF references to vmlinux BTF, and BTF is no longer usable for the
module.

The goal of this series is to provide options to provide additional
context for cases like this.  That context comes in the form of
distilled base BTF; it stands in for the base BTF, and contains
information about the types referenced from split BTF, but not their
full descriptions.  The modified split BTF will refer to type ids in
this .BTF.base section, and when the kernel loads such modules it
will use that .BTF.base to map references from split BTF to the
equivalent current vmlinux base BTF types.  Once this relocation
process has succeeded, the module BTF available in /sys/kernel/btf
will look exactly as if it was built with the current vmlinux;
references to base types will be fixed up etc.

A module builder - using this series along with the pahole changes -
can then build a module with distilled base BTF via an out-of-tree
module build, i.e.

make -C . M=path/2/module

The module will have a .BTF section (the split BTF) and a
.BTF.base section.  The latter is small in size - distilled base
BTF does not need full struct/union/enum information for named
types for example.  For 2667 modules built with distilled base BTF,
the average size observed was 1556 bytes (stddev 1563).  The overall
size added to this 2667 modules was 5.3Mb.

Note that for the in-tree modules, this approach is not needed as
split and base BTF in the case of in-tree modules are always built
and re-built together.

The series first focuses on generating split BTF with distilled base
BTF; then relocation support is added to allow split BTF with
an associated distlled base to be relocated with a new base BTF.

Next Eduard's patch allows BTF ELF parsing to work with both
.BTF and .BTF.base sections; this ensures that bpftool will be
able to dump BTF for a module with a .BTF.base section for example,
or indeed dump relocated BTF where a module and a "-B vmlinux"
is supplied.

Then we add support to resolve_btfids to ignore base BTF - i.e.
to avoid relocation - if a .BTF.base section is found.  This ensures
the .BTF.ids section is populated with ids relative to the distilled
base (these will be relocated as part of module load).

Finally the series supports storage of .BTF.base data/size in modules
and supports sharing of relocation code with the kernel to allow
relocation of module BTF.  For the kernel, this relocation
process happens at module load time, and we relocate split BTF
references to point at types in the current vmlinux BTF.  As part of
this, .BTF.ids references need to be mapped also.

So concretely, what happens is

- we generate split BTF in the .BTF section of a module that refers to
  types in the .BTF.base section as base types; the latter are not full
  type descriptions but provide information about the base type.  So
  a STRUCT sk_buff would be represented as a FWD struct sk_buff in
  distilled base BTF for example.
- when the module is loaded, the split BTF is relocated with vmlinux
  BTF; in the case of the FWD struct sk_buff, we find the STRUCT sk_buff
  in vmlinux BTF and map all split BTF references to the distilled base
  FWD sk_buff, replacing them with references to the vmlinux BTF
  STRUCT sk_buff.

A previous approach to this problem [1] utilized standalone BTF for such
cases - where the BTF is not defined relative to base BTF so there is no
relocation required.  The problem with that approach is that from
the verifier perspective, some types are special, and having a custom
representation of a core kernel type that did not necessarily match the
current representation is not tenable.  So the approach taken here was
to preserve the split BTF model while minimizing the representation of
the context needed to relocate split and current vmlinux BTF.

To generate distilled .BTF.base sections the associated dwarves
patch (to be applied on the "next" branch there) is needed [3]
Without it, things will still work but modules will not be built
with a .BTF.base section.

Changes since v5[4]:

- Update search of distilled types to return the first occurrence
  of a string (or a string+size pair); this allows us to iterate
  over all matches in distilled base BTF (Andrii, patch 3)
- Update to use BTF field iterators (Andrii, patches 1, 3 and 8)
- Update tests to cover multiple match and associated error cases
  (Eduard, patch 4)
- Rename elf_sections_info to btf_elf_secs, remove use of
  libbpf_get_error(), reset btf->owns_base when relocation
  succeeds (Andrii, patch 5)

Changes since v4[5]:

- Moved embeddedness, duplicate name checks to relocation time
  and record struct/union size for all distilled struct/unions
  instead of using forwards.  This allows us to carry out
  type compatibility checks based on the base BTF we want to
  relocate with (Eduard, patches 1, 3)
- Moved to using qsort() instead of qsort_r() as support for
  qsort_r() appears to be missing in Android libc (Andrii, patch 3)
- Sorting/searching now incorporates size matching depending
  on BTF kind and embeddedness of struct/union (Eduard, Andrii,
  patch 3)
- Improved naming of various types during relocation to avoid
  confusion (Andrii, patch 3)
- Incorporated Eduard's patch (patch 5) which handles .BTF.base
  sections internally in btf_parse_elf().  This makes ELF parsing
  work with split BTF, split BTF with a distilled base, split
  BTF with a distilled base _and_ base BTF (by relocating) etc.
  Having this avoids the need for bpftool changes; it will work
  as-is with .BTF.base sections (Eduard, patch 4)
- Updated resolve_btfids to _not_ relocate BTF for modules
  where a .BTF.base section is present; in that one case we
  do not want to relocate BTF as the .BTF.ids section should
  reflect ids in .BTF.base which will later be relocated on
  module load (Eduard, Andrii, patch 5)

Changes since v3[6]:

- distill now checks for duplicate-named struct/unions and records
  them as a sized struct/union to help identify which of the
  multiple base BTF structs/unions it refers to (Eduard, patch 1)
- added test support for multiple name handling (Eduard, patch 2)
- simplified the string mapping when updating split BTF to use
  base BTF instead of distilled base.  Since the only string
  references split BTF can make to base BTF are the names of
  the base types, create a string map from distilled string
  offset -> base BTF string offset and update string offsets
  by visiting all strings in split BTF; this saves having to
  do costly searches of base BTF (Eduard, patch 7,10)
- fixed bpftool manpage and indentation issues (Quentin, patch 11)

Also explored Eduard's suggestion of doing an implicit fallback
to checking for .BTF.base section in btf__parse() when it is
called to get base BTF.  However while it is doable, it turned
out to be difficult operationally.  Since fallback is implicit
we do not know the source of the BTF - was it from .BTF or
.BTF.base? In bpftool, we want to try first standalone BTF,
then split, then split with distilled base.  Having a way
to explicitly request .BTF.base via btf__parse_opts() fits
that model better.

Changes since v2[7]:

- submitted patch to use --btf_features in Makefile.btf for pahole
  v1.26 and later separately (Andrii).  That has landed in bpf-next
  now.
- distilled base now encodes ENUM64 as fwd ENUM (size 8), eliminating
  the need for support for ENUM64 in btf__add_fwd (patch 1, Andrii)
- moved to distilling only named types, augmenting split BTF with
  associated reference types; this simplifies greatly the distilled
  base BTF and the mapping operation between distilled and base
  BTF when relocating (most of the series changes, Andrii)
- relocation now iterates over base BTF, looking for matches based
  on name in distilled BTF.  Distilled BTF is pre-sorted by name
  (Andrii, patch 8)
- removed most redundant compabitiliby checks aside from struct
  size for base types/embedded structs and kind compatibility
  (since we only match on name) (Andrii, patch 8)
- btf__parse_opts() now replaces btf_parse() internally in libbpf
  (Eduard, patch 3)

Changes since RFC [8]:

- updated terminology; we replace clunky "base reference" BTF with
  distilling base BTF into a .BTF.base section. Similarly BTF
  reconcilation becomes BTF relocation (Andrii, most patches)
- add distilled base BTF by default for out-of-tree modules
  (Alexei, patch 8)
- distill algorithm updated to record size of embedded struct/union
  by recording it as a 0-vlen STRUCT/UNION with size preserved
  (Andrii, patch 2)
- verify size match on relocation for such STRUCT/UNIONs (Andrii,
  patch 9)
- with embedded STRUCT/UNION recording size, we can have bpftool
  dump a header representation using .BTF.base + .BTF sections
  rather than special-casing and refusing to use "format c" for
  that case (patch 5)
- match enum with enum64 and vice versa (Andrii, patch 9)
- ensure that resolve_btfids works with BTF without .BTF.base
  section (patch 7)
- update tests to cover embedded types, arrays and function
  prototypes (patches 3, 12)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231112124834.388735-14-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240501175035.2476830-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240517102714.4072080-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240528122408.3154936-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240517102246.4070184-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240510103052.850012-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[7] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240424154806.3417662-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240322102455.98558-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240613095014.357981-1-alan.maguire@oracle.comSigned-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

Now that btf_parse_elf() handles .BTF.base section presence,
we need to ensure that resolve_btfids uses .BTF.base when present
rather than the vmlinux base BTF passed in via the -B option.
Detect .BTF.base section presence and unset the base BTF path
to ensure that BTF ELF parsing will do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613095014.357981-7-alan.maguire@oracle.com

Update btf_parse_elf() to check if .BTF.base section is present.
The logic is as follows:

  if .BTF.base section exists:
     distilled_base := btf_new(.BTF.base)
  if distilled_base:
     btf := btf_new(.BTF, .base_btf=distilled_base)
     if base_btf:
        btf_relocate(btf, base_btf)
  else:
     btf := btf_new(.BTF)
  return btf

In other words:
- if .BTF.base section exists, load BTF from it and use it as a base
  for .BTF load;
- if base_btf is specified and .BTF.base section exist, relocate newly
  loaded .BTF against base_btf.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613095014.357981-6-alan.maguire@oracle.com

Ensure relocated BTF looks as expected; in this case identical to
original split BTF, with a few duplicate anonymous types added to
split BTF by the relocation process.  Also add relocation tests
for edge cases like missing type in base BTF and multiple types
of the same name.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613095014.357981-5-alan.maguire@oracle.com

Map distilled base BTF type ids referenced in split BTF and their
references to the base BTF passed in, and if the mapping succeeds,
reparent the split BTF to the base BTF.

Relocation is done by first verifying that distilled base BTF
only consists of named INT, FLOAT, ENUM, FWD, STRUCT and
UNION kinds; then we sort these to speed lookups.  Once sorted,
the base BTF is iterated, and for each relevant kind we check
for an equivalent in distilled base BTF.  When found, the
mapping from distilled -> base BTF id and string offset is recorded.
In establishing mappings, we need to ensure we check STRUCT/UNION
size when the STRUCT/UNION is embedded in a split BTF STRUCT/UNION,
and when duplicate names exist for the same STRUCT/UNION.  Otherwise
size is ignored in matching STRUCT/UNIONs.

Once all mappings are established, we can update type ids
and string offsets in split BTF and reparent it to the new base.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613095014.357981-4-alan.maguire@oracle.com

Test generation of split+distilled base BTF, ensuring that

- named base BTF STRUCTs and UNIONs are represented as 0-vlen sized
  STRUCT/UNIONs
- named ENUM[64]s are represented as 0-vlen named ENUM[64]s
- anonymous struct/unions are represented in full in split BTF
- anonymous enums are represented in full in split BTF
- types unreferenced from split BTF are not present in distilled
  base BTF

Also test that with vmlinux BTF and split BTF based upon it,
we only represent needed base types referenced from split BTF
in distilled base.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613095014.357981-3-alan.maguire@oracle.com

To support more robust split BTF, adding supplemental context for the
base BTF type ids that split BTF refers to is required.  Without such
references, a simple shuffling of base BTF type ids (without any other
significant change) invalidates the split BTF.  Here the attempt is made
to store additional context to make split BTF more robust.

This context comes in the form of distilled base BTF providing minimal
information (name and - in some cases - size) for base INTs, FLOATs,
STRUCTs, UNIONs, ENUMs and ENUM64s along with modified split BTF that
points at that base and contains any additional types needed (such as
TYPEDEF, PTR and anonymous STRUCT/UNION declarations).  This
information constitutes the minimal BTF representation needed to
disambiguate or remove split BTF references to base BTF.  The rules
are as follows:

- INT, FLOAT, FWD are recorded in full.
- if a named base BTF STRUCT or UNION is referred to from split BTF, it
  will be encoded as a zero-member sized STRUCT/UNION (preserving
  size for later relocation checks).  Only base BTF STRUCT/UNIONs
  that are either embedded in split BTF STRUCT/UNIONs or that have
  multiple STRUCT/UNION instances of the same name will _need_ size
  checks at relocation time, but as it is possible a different set of
  types will be duplicates in the later to-be-resolved base BTF,
  we preserve size information for all named STRUCT/UNIONs.
- if an ENUM[64] is named, a ENUM forward representation (an ENUM
  with no values) of the same size is used.
- in all other cases, the type is added to the new split BTF.

Avoiding struct/union/enum/enum64 expansion is important to keep the
distilled base BTF representation to a minimum size.

When successful, new representations of the distilled base BTF and new
split BTF that refers to it are returned.  Both need to be freed by the
caller.

So to take a simple example, with split BTF with a type referring
to "struct sk_buff", we will generate distilled base BTF with a
0-member STRUCT sk_buff of the appropriate size, and the split BTF
will refer to it instead.

Tools like pahole can utilize such split BTF to populate the .BTF
section (split BTF) and an additional .BTF.base section.  Then
when the split BTF is loaded, the distilled base BTF can be used
to relocate split BTF to reference the current (and possibly changed)
base BTF.

So for example if "struct sk_buff" was id 502 when the split BTF was
originally generated,  we can use the distilled base BTF to see that
id 502 refers to a "struct sk_buff" and replace instances of id 502
with the current (relocated) base BTF sk_buff type id.

Distilled base BTF is small; when building a kernel with all modules
using distilled base BTF as a test, overall module size grew by only
5.3Mb total across ~2700 modules.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613095014.357981-2-alan.maguire@oracle.com

Improve arena based tests and add several C and asm tests
with specific pattern.
These tests would have failed without add_const verifier support.

Also add several loop_inside_iter*() tests that are not related to add_const,
but nice to have.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613013815.953-5-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com

Add big endian support for can_loop/cond_break macros.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613013815.953-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com

Compilers can generate the code
  r1 = r2
  r1 += 0x1
  if r2 < 1000 goto ...
  use knowledge of r2 range in subsequent r1 operations

So remember constant delta between r2 and r1 and update r1 after 'if' condition.

Unfortunately LLVM still uses this pattern for loops with 'can_loop' construct:
for (i = 0; i < 1000 && can_loop; i++)

The "undo" pass was introduced in LLVM
https://reviews.llvm.org/D121937
to prevent this optimization, but it cannot cover all cases.
Instead of fighting middle end optimizer in BPF backend teach the verifier
about this pattern.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613013815.953-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com