From: Gabriele Monaco Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 12:58:33 +0000 (+0200) Subject: sched/deadline: Use revised wakeup rule only for running dl_server X-Git-Tag: v7.2-rc6~4^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1842bf97af109f5ebf830175c9725bf81ebb78b1;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git sched/deadline: Use revised wakeup rule only for running dl_server Commit 14a857056466 ("sched/deadline: Use revised wakeup rule for dl_server") applies the revised wakeup rule to any server, as a result servers that are not running (dl_defer_running == 0) and start with a deadline overflow get enqueued and can boost tasks as if they were running, invalidating the defer rule and the documented state model. Apply the revised wakeup rule only for deferrable servers that are marked as running. Fixes: 14a857056466 ("sched/deadline: Use revised wakeup rule for dl_server") Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Juri Lelli Tested-by: Andrea Righi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522125833.264145-1-gmonaco@redhat.com --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c index 0f858b98c9aa3..200300043fa54 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -1017,7 +1017,8 @@ static void update_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se) if (dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq)) || dl_entity_overflow(dl_se, rq_clock(rq))) { - if (unlikely((!dl_is_implicit(dl_se) || dl_se->dl_defer) && + if (unlikely((!dl_is_implicit(dl_se) || + (dl_se->dl_defer && dl_se->dl_defer_running)) && !dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq)) && !is_dl_boosted(dl_se))) { update_dl_revised_wakeup(dl_se, rq);