kernel/linux.git/Documentation/scheduler, branch v7.0-rc7

sched_ext: Documentation: Update sched-ext.rst

2026-03-06T22:40:27+00:00

- Remove CONFIG_PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG from required config list - Document ext_idle.c as the built-in idle CPU selection policy - Add descriptions for example schedulers in tools/sched_ext/ Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

sched_ext: Documentation: Mention scheduling class precedence

2026-03-06T16:32:19+00:00

Mention the scheduling class precedence of fair and sched_ext to clear up how sched_ext partial mode works. Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle Acked-by: Andrea Righi Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2026-02-10T19:26:21+00:00

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Support associating BPF program with struct_ops (Amery Hung) - Switch BPF local storage to rqspinlock and remove recursion detection counters which were causing false positives (Amery Hung) - Fix live registers marking for indirect jumps (Anton Protopopov) - Introduce execution context detection BPF helpers (Changwoo Min) - Improve verifier precision for 32bit sign extension pattern (Cupertino Miranda) - Optimize BTF type lookup by sorting vmlinux BTF and doing binary search (Donglin Peng) - Allow states pruning for misc/invalid slots in iterator loops (Eduard Zingerman) - In preparation for ASAN support in BPF arenas teach libbpf to move global BPF variables to the end of the region and enable arena kfuncs while holding locks (Emil Tsalapatis) - Introduce support for implicit arguments in kfuncs and migrate a number of them to new API. This is a prerequisite for cgroup sub-schedulers in sched-ext (Ihor Solodrai) - Fix incorrect copied_seq calculation in sockmap (Jiayuan Chen) - Fix ORC stack unwind from kprobe_multi (Jiri Olsa) - Speed up fentry attach by using single ftrace direct ops in BPF trampolines (Jiri Olsa) - Require frozen map for calculating map hash (KP Singh) - Fix lock entry creation in TAS fallback in rqspinlock (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Allow user space to select cpu in lookup/update operations on per-cpu array and hash maps (Leon Hwang) - Make kfuncs return trusted pointers by default (Matt Bobrowski) - Introduce "fsession" support where single BPF program is executed upon entry and exit from traced kernel function (Menglong Dong) - Allow bpf_timer and bpf_wq use in all programs types (Mykyta Yatsenko, Andrii Nakryiko, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Alexei Starovoitov) - Make KF_TRUSTED_ARGS the default for all kfuncs and clean up their definition across the tree (Puranjay Mohan) - Allow BPF arena calls from non-sleepable context (Puranjay Mohan) - Improve register id comparison logic in the verifier and extend linked registers with negative offsets (Puranjay Mohan) - In preparation for BPF-OOM introduce kfuncs to access memcg events (Roman Gushchin) - Use CFI compatible destructor kfunc type (Sami Tolvanen) - Add bitwise tracking for BPF_END in the verifier (Tianci Cao) - Add range tracking for BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD in the verifier (Yazhou Tang) - Make BPF selftests work with 64k page size (Yonghong Song) * tag 'bpf-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (268 commits) selftests/bpf: Fix outdated test on storage->smap selftests/bpf: Choose another percpu variable in bpf for btf_dump test selftests/bpf: Remove test_task_storage_map_stress_lookup selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/task_storage_nodeadlock test selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/recursion test selftests/bpf: Update sk_storage_omem_uncharge test bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy} bpf: Support lockless unlink when freeing map or local storage bpf: Prepare for bpf_selem_unlink_nofail() bpf: Remove unused percpu counter from bpf_local_storage_map_free bpf: Remove cgroup local storage percpu counter bpf: Remove task local storage percpu counter bpf: Change local_storage->lock and b->lock to rqspinlock bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink to failable bpf: Convert bpf_selem_link_map to failable bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink_map to failable bpf: Select bpf_local_storage_map_bucket based on bpf_local_storage selftests/xsk: fix number of Tx frags in invalid packet selftests/xsk: properly handle batch ending in the middle of a packet bpf: Prevent reentrance into call_rcu_tasks_trace() ...

Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-02-10T04:53:18+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a fair amount going on, including: - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by generative tools - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking scripts - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of improvements and fixes - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to the online pages in the HTML build ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits) doc: development-process: add notice on testing tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree' docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent docs: add parse_features module documentation docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements docs: add jobserver module documentation docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8 docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation docs: add kabi modules documentation ...

Documentation: Fix typos in energy model documentation

2026-01-30T19:23:01+00:00

Fix typos in documentation related to energy model management. Signed-off-by: Patrick Little Acked-by: Randy Dunlap [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128-documentation-fix-grammar-v1-1-39238dc471f9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate

2026-01-23T18:59:34+00:00

The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't. For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst, but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a ".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html builds. This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the root document. Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py. For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers. Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>

lib/Kconfig.debug: Set the minimum required pahole version to v1.22

2025-12-19T18:55:40+00:00

Subsequent patches in the series change vmlinux linking scripts to unconditionally pass --btf_encode_detached to pahole, which was introduced in v1.22 [1][2]. This change allows to remove PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF Kconfig option and other checks of older pahole versions. [1] https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/releases/tag/v1.22 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cbafbf4e-9073-4383-8ee6-1353f9e5869c@oracle.com/ Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Tested-by: Alan Maguire Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman Acked-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181825.1289460-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev

Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

2025-07-31T23:29:46+00:00

Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo: - Add support for cgroup "cpu.max" interface - Code organization cleanup so that ext_idle.c doesn't depend on the source-file-inclusion build method of sched/ - Drop UP paths in accordance with sched core changes - Documentation and other misc changes * tag 'sched_ext-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: sched_ext: Fix scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() reference sched_ext: Drop kfuncs marked for removal in 6.15 sched_ext, rcu: Eject BPF scheduler on RCU CPU stall panic kernel/sched/ext.c: fix typo "occured" -> "occurred" in comments sched_ext: Add support for cgroup bandwidth control interface sched_ext, sched/core: Factor out struct scx_task_group sched_ext: Return NULL in llc_span sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext_idle.h sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext_idle.c sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext.h sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext.c sched_ext: Documentation: Clarify time slice handling in task lifecycle sched_ext: Make scx_locked_rq() inline sched_ext: Make scx_rq_bypassing() inline sched_ext: idle: Make local functions static in ext_idle.c sched_ext: idle: Remove unnecessary ifdef in scx_bpf_cpu_node()

docs/sched: Make the sched-stats documentation consistent

2025-06-09T22:23:58+00:00

pull_task(), the original function to move the task from src_rq to the dst_rq during load balancing was renamed to move_tasks() in commit ddcdf6e7d991 ("sched: Rename load-balancing fields") As a part of commit 163122b7fcfa ("sched/fair: Remove double_lock_balance() from load_balance()"), move_task() was broken down into detach_tasks() and attach_tasks() pair to avoid holding locks of both src_rq and dst_rq at the same time during load balancing. Despite the evolution of pull_task() over the years, the sched-stats documentation remained unchanged. Update the documentation to refer to detach_task() instead of pull_task() which is responsible for removing the task from the src_rq during load balancing. commit 1c055a0f5d3b ("sched: Move sched domain name out of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG") moves sched domain name out of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. Update the documentation related to that. Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak Suggested-by: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430062559.1188661-1-swapnil.sapkal@amd.com

sched_deadline, docs: add affinity setting with cgroup2 cpuset controller

2025-06-09T21:01:34+00:00

Setting the cpu affinity mask of a SCHED_DEADLINE process using the cgroup v1 cpuset controller is already detailed. Add similar information for cgroup v2's cpuset controller. Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250527-sched-deadline-cpu-affinity-v2-2-b8b40a4feefa@sony.com