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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2026-05-26 11:42:29 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2026-06-02 12:26:09 +0200
commitbe365ce2bc20b8970bed350f82c3b760256b6945 (patch)
treea60f26b42bcc44077453df9f96d77b8efee71ff1 /kernel/sched
parent7918cf3693614c9f96bc9e43daff6fc72c01b81a (diff)
sched/proxy: Switch proxy to use p->is_blocked
Rather than gate the proxy paths with p->blocked_on, use p->is_blocked. This opens up the state: '->is_blocked && !->blocked_on' for future use. Notably, only proxy and delayed tasks can be ->on_rq && ->is_blocked, and it is guaranteed that sched_class::pick_task() will never return a delayed task. Therefore any task returned from pick_next_task() that has ->is_blocked set, must be a proxy task. Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526113322.477954312%40infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b007b65d9c88..9b710313dfb3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3764,7 +3764,7 @@ static inline void proxy_reset_donor(struct rq *rq)
*/
static inline bool proxy_needs_return(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
{
- if (!task_is_blocked(p))
+ if (!p->is_blocked)
return false;
/*
@@ -6866,14 +6866,14 @@ find_proxy_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *donor, struct rq_flags *rf)
bool curr_in_chain = false;
int this_cpu = cpu_of(rq);
struct task_struct *p;
- struct mutex *mutex;
int owner_cpu;
/* Follow blocked_on chain. */
- for (p = donor; (mutex = p->blocked_on); p = owner) {
+ for (p = donor; p->is_blocked; p = owner) {
/* if its PROXY_WAKING, do return migration or run if current */
- if (mutex == PROXY_WAKING) {
- clear_task_blocked_on(p, PROXY_WAKING);
+ struct mutex *mutex = p->blocked_on;
+ if (!mutex || mutex == PROXY_WAKING) {
+ clear_task_blocked_on(p, mutex);
if (task_current(rq, p)) {
p->is_blocked = 0;
return p;
@@ -7147,7 +7147,7 @@ pick_again:
rq_set_donor(rq, next);
next->blocked_donor = NULL;
- if (unlikely(next->is_blocked && next->blocked_on)) {
+ if (unlikely(next->is_blocked)) {
next = find_proxy_task(rq, next, &rf);
if (!next) {
zap_balance_callbacks(rq);