Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] sched_ext: Guarantee rq lock on scx_bpf_cpu_rq()

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 03:35:05PM +0100, Jake Hillion wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > Yeah, this is not nice, but they would be still broken though, in PATCH 1/3
> > we force schedulers to check for NULL and, if they don't, the verifier
> > won't be happy, so this already breaks existing binaries.
> 
> I ran some testing on the sched_ext for-next branch, and scx_cosmos is
> breaking in cosmos_init including the latest changes. I believe it kicks
> off a timer in init, which indirectly calls
> `scx_bpf_cpu_rq(cpu)->curr->flags & PF_IDLE`. This should be NULL
> checked, but old binaries breaking is pretty inconvenient for new users.
> 
> As Andrea says, this is the already merged patch triggering this.

Lemme revert that. I don't think we should introduce breaking changes
without grace period.

Thanks.

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tejun