From a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:12:34 -1000 Subject: sched_ext: Maintain an online cid mask in the scheduler arena Schedulers on the default cid mapping treat [0, nr_online_cids) as the online set and restart on hotplug. Schedulers that install their own mapping with scx_bpf_cid_override() have no way to learn which cids are online: the count no longer identifies members and the CPU-form cpumask is unusable from cid programs. This is an obvious hole in the cid API. Add scx_bpf_online_cmask(), a kernel-maintained cmask in the scheduler's arena, allocated alongside the per-CPU scratch masks and populated after the cid mapping is finalized and before ops.init(), for child schedulers too. The pointer stays valid through ops.exit() with no reference to take. It is the arena offset as a void pointer, the same form struct_ops arena arguments arrive in. The verifier types the void return as a scalar for the program's arena cast. The mask follows the SCX hotplug notifications: seeded from cpu_active_mask and updated before ops.cid_online/offline() runs, so it lags cpu_online_mask only inside a hotplug transition. Updates walk the scheduler list under the lock that also serializes unlinking. Reads are live, not atomic snapshots. Root initialization excludes hotplug. v2: Reworded the getter kerneldoc (Andrea Righi). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi --- Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf') diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..473dfba78 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +eBPF Userspace API +================== + +eBPF is a kernel mechanism to provide a sandboxed runtime environment in the +Linux kernel for runtime extension and instrumentation without changing kernel +source code or loading kernel modules. eBPF programs can be attached to various +kernel subsystems, including networking, tracing and Linux security modules +(LSM). + +For internal kernel documentation on eBPF, see Documentation/bpf/index.rst. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + syscall diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea9918084 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +eBPF Syscall +------------ + +:Authors: - Alexei Starovoitov + - Joe Stringer + - Michael Kerrisk + +The primary info for the bpf syscall is available in the `man-pages`_ +for `bpf(2)`_. + +bpf() subcommand reference +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h + :doc: eBPF Syscall Preamble + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h + :doc: eBPF Syscall Commands + +.. Links: +.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ +.. _bpf(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/bpf.2.html -- cgit v1.3.1