There's no real space concerns here and keeping these fields
in a union makes reading (and tracing) the scheduler code harder.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index e84bc5bce816..667fa08aee75 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
 	u64				sum_exec_runtime;
 	u64				prev_sum_exec_runtime;
 	u64				vruntime;
-	union {
+//	union {
 		/*
 		 * When !@on_rq this field is vlag.
 		 * When cfs_rq->curr == se (which implies @on_rq)
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
 		 */
 		s64                     vlag;
 		u64                     vprot;
-	};
+//	};
 	u64				slice;
 
 	u64				nr_migrations;
-- 
2.51.0

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> There's no real space concerns here and keeping these fields
> in a union makes reading (and tracing) the scheduler code harder.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index e84bc5bce816..667fa08aee75 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
>  	u64				sum_exec_runtime;
>  	u64				prev_sum_exec_runtime;
>  	u64				vruntime;
> -	union {
> +//	union {
>  		/*
>  		 * When !@on_rq this field is vlag.
>  		 * When cfs_rq->curr == se (which implies @on_rq)
> @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
>  		 */
>  		s64                     vlag;
>  		u64                     vprot;
> -	};
> +//	};
>  	u64				slice;
>  
>  	u64				nr_migrations;

Of course I meant the patch below. :-/

Thanks,

	Ingo

===================================>
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:31:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Separate se->vlag from se->vprot

There's no real space concerns here and keeping these fields
in a union makes reading (and tracing) the scheduler code harder.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index e84bc5bce816..9aa38dc37b09 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -586,15 +586,10 @@ struct sched_entity {
 	u64				sum_exec_runtime;
 	u64				prev_sum_exec_runtime;
 	u64				vruntime;
-	union {
-		/*
-		 * When !@on_rq this field is vlag.
-		 * When cfs_rq->curr == se (which implies @on_rq)
-		 * this field is vprot. See protect_slice().
-		 */
-		s64                     vlag;
-		u64                     vprot;
-	};
+	/* Approximated virtual lag: */
+	s64				vlag;
+	/* 'Protected' deadline, to give out minimum quantums: */
+	u64				vprot;
 	u64				slice;
 
 	u64				nr_migrations;