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 --- samples/workqueue/stall_detector/Makefile | 1 + samples/workqueue/stall_detector/wq_stall.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 samples/workqueue/stall_detector/Makefile create mode 100644 samples/workqueue/stall_detector/wq_stall.c (limited to 'samples/workqueue') diff --git a/samples/workqueue/stall_detector/Makefile b/samples/workqueue/stall_detector/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8849e85e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/samples/workqueue/stall_detector/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +obj-m += wq_stall.o diff --git a/samples/workqueue/stall_detector/wq_stall.c b/samples/workqueue/stall_detector/wq_stall.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6f4a497b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/samples/workqueue/stall_detector/wq_stall.c @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * wq_stall - Test module for the workqueue stall detector. + * + * Deliberately creates a workqueue stall so the watchdog fires and + * prints diagnostic output. Useful for verifying that the stall + * detector correctly identifies stuck workers and produces useful + * backtraces. + * + * The stall is triggered by clearing PF_WQ_WORKER before sleeping, + * which hides the worker from the concurrency manager. A second + * work item queued on the same pool then sits in the worklist with + * no worker available to process it. + * + * After ~30s the workqueue watchdog fires: + * BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=N ... + * + * Build: + * make -C M=samples/workqueue/stall_detector modules + * + * Copyright (c) 2026 Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates. + * Copyright (c) 2026 Breno Leitao + */ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(stall_wq_head); +static atomic_t wake_condition = ATOMIC_INIT(0); +static struct work_struct stall_work1; +static struct work_struct stall_work2; + +static void stall_work2_fn(struct work_struct *work) +{ + pr_info("wq_stall: second work item finally ran\n"); +} + +static void stall_work1_fn(struct work_struct *work) +{ + pr_info("wq_stall: first work item running on cpu %d\n", + raw_smp_processor_id()); + + /* + * Queue second item while we're still counted as running + * (pool->nr_running > 0). Since schedule_work() on a per-CPU + * workqueue targets raw_smp_processor_id(), item 2 lands on the + * same pool. __queue_work -> kick_pool -> need_more_worker() + * sees nr_running > 0 and does NOT wake a new worker. + */ + schedule_work(&stall_work2); + + /* + * Hide from the workqueue concurrency manager. Without + * PF_WQ_WORKER, schedule() won't call wq_worker_sleeping(), + * so nr_running is never decremented and no replacement + * worker is created. Item 2 stays stuck in pool->worklist. + */ + current->flags &= ~PF_WQ_WORKER; + + pr_info("wq_stall: entering wait_event_idle (PF_WQ_WORKER cleared)\n"); + pr_info("wq_stall: expect 'BUG: workqueue lockup' in ~30-60s\n"); + wait_event_idle(stall_wq_head, atomic_read(&wake_condition) != 0); + + /* Restore so process_one_work() cleanup works correctly */ + current->flags |= PF_WQ_WORKER; + pr_info("wq_stall: woke up, PF_WQ_WORKER restored\n"); +} + +static int __init wq_stall_init(void) +{ + pr_info("wq_stall: loading\n"); + + INIT_WORK(&stall_work1, stall_work1_fn); + INIT_WORK(&stall_work2, stall_work2_fn); + schedule_work(&stall_work1); + + return 0; +} + +static void __exit wq_stall_exit(void) +{ + pr_info("wq_stall: unloading\n"); + atomic_set(&wake_condition, 1); + wake_up(&stall_wq_head); + flush_work(&stall_work1); + flush_work(&stall_work2); + pr_info("wq_stall: all work flushed, module unloaded\n"); +} + +module_init(wq_stall_init); +module_exit(wq_stall_exit); + +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Reproduce workqueue stall caused by PF_WQ_WORKER misuse"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Breno Leitao "); -- cgit v1.3.1