Re: [PATCH] sched/ext: Suppress warning in __this_cpu_write() by disabling preemption
From: Breno Leitao
Date: Wed Jul 16 2025 - 12:08:56 EST
On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 04:26:23PM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 03:36:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 03:15:12PM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> >
> > > The idea is to track the scx callbacks that are invoked with a rq lock held
> > > and, in those cases, store the locked rq. However, some callbacks may also
> > > be invoked from an unlocked context, where no rq is locked and in this case
> > > rq should be NULL.
> > >
> > > In the latter case, it's acceptable for preemption to remain enabled, but
> > > we still want to explicitly set locked_rq = NULL. If during the execution
> > > of the callback we jump on another CPU, it'd still be in an unlocked state,
> > > so it's locked_rq is still NULL.
> >
> > Right; but doing superfluous NULL stores seems pointless. So better to
> > avoid the store entirely, rather than making it more expensive and no
> > less pointless, right?
>
> Right, we can definitely avoid rewriting NULL.
> The following should do the trick.
>
> Breno, can you give it a try?
Sure thing. I've tested it and I don't see the warning on my side.
Would you like to me post the patch, probably removing the WARN_ONCE()
as raised by peterz?
Thanks
--breno