Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fair scheduling updates:
   - Skip SCHED_IDLE rq for SCHED_IDLE tasks (Christian Loehle)
   - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() in the wakeup path (K Prateek Nayak)
   - Simplify the entry condition for update_idle_cpu_scan() (K Prateek Nayak)
   - Simplify SIS_UTIL handling in select_idle_cpu() (K Prateek Nayak)
   - Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() (K Prateek Nayak)
   - Update overutilized detection (Vincent Guittot)
   - Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue (Vincent Guittot)
   - Clear buddies for preempt_short (Vincent Guittot)
   - Implement more complex proportional newidle balance (Peter Zijlstra)
   - Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime (Peter Zijlstra)
   - Use full weight to __calc_delta() (Peter Zijlstra)

  RT and DL scheduling updates:
   - Fix incorrect schedstats for rt and dl thread (Dengjun Su)
   - Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0 (Michal Koutný)
   - Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
     (Michal Koutný)
   - Add reporting of runtime left & abs deadline to sched_getattr()
     for DEADLINE tasks (Tommaso Cucinotta)

  Scheduling topology updates by K Prateek Nayak:
   - Compute sd_weight considering cpuset partitions
   - Extract "imb_numa_nr" calculation into a separate helper
   - Allocate per-CPU sched_domain_shared in s_data
   - Switch to assigning "sd->shared" from s_data
   - Remove sched_domain_shared allocation with sd_data

  Energy-aware scheduling updates:
   - Filter false overloaded_group case for EAS (Vincent Guittot)
   - PM: EM: Switch to rcu_dereference_all() in wakeup path
     (Dietmar Eggemann)

  Infrastructure updates:
   - Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq (Marco Crivellari)

  Proxy scheduling updates by John Stultz:
   - Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
   - Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
   - Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
   - Fix and improve task::blocked_on et al handling
   - Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty() helper
   - Add logic to zap balancing callbacks if we pick again
   - Move attach_one_task() and attach_task() helpers to sched.h
   - Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
   - Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers for proxy execution

  Misc cleanups and fixes by John Stultz, Joseph Salisbury, Peter
  Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak, Michal Koutný, Randy Dunlap, Shrikanth
  Hegde, Vincent Guittot, Zhan Xusheng, Xie Yuanbin and Vincent Guittot"

* tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  sched/eevdf: Clear buddies for preempt_short
  sched/rt: Cleanup global RT bandwidth functions
  sched/rt: Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
  sched/rt: Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0
  sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity()
  sched: Use u64 for bandwidth ratio calculations
  sched/fair: Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue
  sched/fair: Use sched_energy_enabled()
  sched: Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
  sched: Move attach_one_task and attach_task helpers to sched.h
  sched: Add logic to zap balance callbacks if we pick again
  sched: Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty helper
  sched/locking: Add special p->blocked_on==PROXY_WAKING value for proxy return-migration
  sched: Fix modifying donor->blocked on without proper locking
  locking: Add task::blocked_lock to serialize blocked_on state
  sched: Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
  sched: Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
  sched: Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
  MAINTAINERS: Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers
  sched/core: Get this cpu once in ttwu_queue_cond()
  ...

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
index 45c0022b91ce..36553e14866d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ struct sched_domain {
 	unsigned int newidle_call;
 	unsigned int newidle_success;
 	unsigned int newidle_ratio;
+	u64 newidle_stamp;
 	u64 max_newidle_lb_cost;
 	unsigned long last_decay_max_lb_cost;
 
@@ -141,18 +142,30 @@ struct sched_domain {
 
 	unsigned int span_weight;
 	/*
-	 * Span of all CPUs in this domain.
+	 * See sched_domain_span(), on why flex arrays are broken.
 	 *
-	 * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically
-	 * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure,
-	 * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with)
-	 */
 	unsigned long span[];
+	 */
 };
 
 static inline struct cpumask *sched_domain_span(struct sched_domain *sd)
 {
-	return to_cpumask(sd->span);
+	/*
+	 * Turns out that C flexible arrays are fundamentally broken since it
+	 * is allowed for offsetof(*sd, span) < sizeof(*sd), this means that
+	 * structure initialzation *sd = { ... }; which writes every byte
+	 * inside sizeof(*type), will over-write the start of the flexible
+	 * array.
+	 *
+	 * Luckily, the way we allocate sched_domain is by:
+	 *
+	 *   sizeof(*sd) + cpumask_size()
+	 *
+	 * this means that we have sufficient space for the whole flex array
+	 * *outside* of sizeof(*sd). So use that, and avoid using sd->span.
+	 */
+	unsigned long *bitmap = (void *)sd + sizeof(*sd);
+	return to_cpumask(bitmap);
 }
 
 extern void partition_sched_domains(int ndoms_new, cpumask_var_t doms_new[],
@@ -171,7 +184,6 @@ typedef int (*sched_domain_flags_f)(void);
 
 struct sd_data {
 	struct sched_domain *__percpu *sd;
-	struct sched_domain_shared *__percpu *sds;
 	struct sched_group *__percpu *sg;
 	struct sched_group_capacity *__percpu *sgc;
 };