linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/debug: add new tracepoints to track rt throttling

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Message-Id: <20251118160525.1686985-1-wen.yang@linux.dev>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:05:25 +0800
From: wen.yang@...ux.dev
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wen.yang@...ux.dev>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched/debug: add new tracepoints to track rt throttling

From: Wen Yang <wen.yang@...ux.dev>

The new tracepoint allows for tracking RT throttling events at
the rt_rq level to identify RT processes that use a large amount
of CPU.

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@...ux.dev>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
---
 include/linux/sched.h        | 1 +
 include/trace/events/sched.h | 5 +++++
 kernel/sched/rt.c            | 1 +
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 40a6027a2cfd..210cf5ce41be 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct reclaim_state;
 struct robust_list_head;
 struct root_domain;
 struct rq;
+struct rt_rq;
 struct sched_attr;
 struct sched_dl_entity;
 struct seq_file;
diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
index 7b2645b50e78..9ec53bc98df9 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
@@ -896,6 +896,11 @@ DECLARE_TRACE(sched_set_need_resched,
 	TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu, int tif),
 	TP_ARGS(tsk, cpu, tif));
 
+DECLARE_TRACE(sched_rt_throttled,
+	TP_PROTO(struct rt_rq *rt_rq),
+	TP_ARGS(rt_rq));
+
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_SCHED_H */
 
 /* This part must be outside protection */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index f1867fe8e5c5..c04762a51ff0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -884,6 +884,7 @@ static int sched_rt_runtime_exceeded(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
 		 */
 		if (likely(rt_b->rt_runtime)) {
 			rt_rq->rt_throttled = 1;
+			trace_sched_rt_throttled_tp(rt_rq);
 			printk_deferred_once("sched: RT throttling activated\n");
 		} else {
 			/*
-- 
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