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<entry>
<title>bpf: Only provide bpf_sock_from_file with CONFIG_NET</title>
<updated>2020-12-09T02:23:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-08T17:36:23+00:00</published>
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This moves the bpf_sock_from_file definition into net/core/filter.c
which only gets compiled with CONFIG_NET and also moves the helper proto
usage next to other tracing helpers that are conditional on CONFIG_NET.

This avoids
  ld: kernel/trace/bpf_trace.o: in function `bpf_sock_from_file':
  bpf_trace.c:(.text+0xe23): undefined reference to `sock_from_file'
When compiling a kernel with BPF and without NET.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201208173623.1136863-1-revest@chromium.org
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This moves the bpf_sock_from_file definition into net/core/filter.c
which only gets compiled with CONFIG_NET and also moves the helper proto
usage next to other tracing helpers that are conditional on CONFIG_NET.

This avoids
  ld: kernel/trace/bpf_trace.o: in function `bpf_sock_from_file':
  bpf_trace.c:(.text+0xe23): undefined reference to `sock_from_file'
When compiling a kernel with BPF and without NET.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201208173623.1136863-1-revest@chromium.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Remove hard-coded btf_vmlinux assumption from BPF verifier</title>
<updated>2020-12-04T01:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-03T20:46:29+00:00</published>
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Remove a permeating assumption thoughout BPF verifier of vmlinux BTF. Instead,
wherever BTF type IDs are involved, also track the instance of struct btf that
goes along with the type ID. This allows to gradually add support for kernel
module BTFs and using/tracking module types across BPF helper calls and
registers.

This patch also renames btf_id() function to btf_obj_id() to minimize naming
clash with using btf_id to denote BTF *type* ID, rather than BTF *object*'s ID.

Also, altough btf_vmlinux can't get destructed and thus doesn't need
refcounting, module BTFs need that, so apply BTF refcounting universally when
BPF program is using BTF-powered attachment (tp_btf, fentry/fexit, etc). This
makes for simpler clean up code.

Now that BTF type ID is not enough to uniquely identify a BTF type, extend BPF
trampoline key to include BTF object ID. To differentiate that from target
program BPF ID, set 31st bit of type ID. BTF type IDs (at least currently) are
not allowed to take full 32 bits, so there is no danger of confusing that bit
with a valid BTF type ID.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201203204634.1325171-10-andrii@kernel.org
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Remove a permeating assumption thoughout BPF verifier of vmlinux BTF. Instead,
wherever BTF type IDs are involved, also track the instance of struct btf that
goes along with the type ID. This allows to gradually add support for kernel
module BTFs and using/tracking module types across BPF helper calls and
registers.

This patch also renames btf_id() function to btf_obj_id() to minimize naming
clash with using btf_id to denote BTF *type* ID, rather than BTF *object*'s ID.

Also, altough btf_vmlinux can't get destructed and thus doesn't need
refcounting, module BTFs need that, so apply BTF refcounting universally when
BPF program is using BTF-powered attachment (tp_btf, fentry/fexit, etc). This
makes for simpler clean up code.

Now that BTF type ID is not enough to uniquely identify a BTF type, extend BPF
trampoline key to include BTF object ID. To differentiate that from target
program BPF ID, set 31st bit of type ID. BTF type IDs (at least currently) are
not allowed to take full 32 bits, so there is no danger of confusing that bit
with a valid BTF type ID.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201203204634.1325171-10-andrii@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Eliminate rlimit-based memory accounting for bpf progs</title>
<updated>2020-12-03T02:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-01T21:58:59+00:00</published>
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Do not use rlimit-based memory accounting for bpf progs. It has been
replaced with memcg-based memory accounting.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-34-guro@fb.com
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Do not use rlimit-based memory accounting for bpf progs. It has been
replaced with memcg-based memory accounting.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-34-guro@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Eliminate rlimit-based memory accounting infra for bpf maps</title>
<updated>2020-12-03T02:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-01T21:58:58+00:00</published>
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Remove rlimit-based accounting infrastructure code, which is not used
anymore.

To provide a backward compatibility, use an approximation of the
bpf map memory footprint as a "memlock" value, available to a user
via map info. The approximation is based on the maximal number of
elements and key and value sizes.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-33-guro@fb.com
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Remove rlimit-based accounting infrastructure code, which is not used
anymore.

To provide a backward compatibility, use an approximation of the
bpf map memory footprint as a "memlock" value, available to a user
via map info. The approximation is based on the maximal number of
elements and key and value sizes.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-33-guro@fb.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Prepare for memcg-based memory accounting for bpf maps</title>
<updated>2020-12-03T02:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-01T21:58:32+00:00</published>
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Bpf maps can be updated from an interrupt context and in such
case there is no process which can be charged. It makes the memory
accounting of bpf maps non-trivial.

Fortunately, after commit 4127c6504f25 ("mm: kmem: enable kernel
memcg accounting from interrupt contexts") and commit b87d8cefe43c
("mm, memcg: rework remote charging API to support nesting")
it's finally possible.

To make the ownership model simple and consistent, when the map
is created, the memory cgroup of the current process is recorded.
All subsequent allocations related to the bpf map are charged to
the same memory cgroup. It includes allocations made by any processes
(even if they do belong to a different cgroup) and from interrupts.

This commit introduces 3 new helpers, which will be used by following
commits to enable the accounting of bpf maps memory:
  - bpf_map_kmalloc_node()
  - bpf_map_kzalloc()
  - bpf_map_alloc_percpu()

They are wrapping popular memory allocation functions. They set
the active memory cgroup to the map's memory cgroup and add
__GFP_ACCOUNT to the passed gfp flags. Then they call into
the corresponding memory allocation function and restore
the original active memory cgroup.

These helpers are supposed to use everywhere except the map creation
path. During the map creation when the map structure is allocated by
itself, it cannot be passed to those helpers. In those cases default
memory allocation function will be used with the __GFP_ACCOUNT flag.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-7-guro@fb.com
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Bpf maps can be updated from an interrupt context and in such
case there is no process which can be charged. It makes the memory
accounting of bpf maps non-trivial.

Fortunately, after commit 4127c6504f25 ("mm: kmem: enable kernel
memcg accounting from interrupt contexts") and commit b87d8cefe43c
("mm, memcg: rework remote charging API to support nesting")
it's finally possible.

To make the ownership model simple and consistent, when the map
is created, the memory cgroup of the current process is recorded.
All subsequent allocations related to the bpf map are charged to
the same memory cgroup. It includes allocations made by any processes
(even if they do belong to a different cgroup) and from interrupts.

This commit introduces 3 new helpers, which will be used by following
commits to enable the accounting of bpf maps memory:
  - bpf_map_kmalloc_node()
  - bpf_map_kzalloc()
  - bpf_map_alloc_percpu()

They are wrapping popular memory allocation functions. They set
the active memory cgroup to the map's memory cgroup and add
__GFP_ACCOUNT to the passed gfp flags. Then they call into
the corresponding memory allocation function and restore
the original active memory cgroup.

These helpers are supposed to use everywhere except the map creation
path. During the map creation when the map structure is allocated by
itself, it cannot be passed to those helpers. In those cases default
memory allocation function will be used with the __GFP_ACCOUNT flag.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-7-guro@fb.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_ktime_get_coarse_ns helper</title>
<updated>2020-11-18T22:25:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitrii Banshchikov</name>
<email>me@ubique.spb.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T18:45:49+00:00</published>
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The helper uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE source of time that is less
accurate but more performant.

We have a BPF CGROUP_SKB firewall that supports event logging through
bpf_perf_event_output(). Each event has a timestamp and currently we use
bpf_ktime_get_ns() for it. Use of bpf_ktime_get_coarse_ns() saves ~15-20
ns in time required for event logging.

bpf_ktime_get_ns():
EgressLogByRemoteEndpoint                              113.82ns    8.79M

bpf_ktime_get_coarse_ns():
EgressLogByRemoteEndpoint                               95.40ns   10.48M

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Banshchikov &lt;me@ubique.spb.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201117184549.257280-1-me@ubique.spb.ru
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The helper uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE source of time that is less
accurate but more performant.

We have a BPF CGROUP_SKB firewall that supports event logging through
bpf_perf_event_output(). Each event has a timestamp and currently we use
bpf_ktime_get_ns() for it. Use of bpf_ktime_get_coarse_ns() saves ~15-20
ns in time required for event logging.

bpf_ktime_get_ns():
EgressLogByRemoteEndpoint                              113.82ns    8.79M

bpf_ktime_get_coarse_ns():
EgressLogByRemoteEndpoint                               95.40ns   10.48M

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Banshchikov &lt;me@ubique.spb.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201117184549.257280-1-me@ubique.spb.ru
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Load and verify kernel module BTFs</title>
<updated>2020-11-10T23:25:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-10T01:19:31+00:00</published>
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Add kernel module listener that will load/validate and unload module BTF.
Module BTFs gets ID generated for them, which makes it possible to iterate
them with existing BTF iteration API. They are given their respective module's
names, which will get reported through GET_OBJ_INFO API. They are also marked
as in-kernel BTFs for tooling to distinguish them from user-provided BTFs.

Also, similarly to vmlinux BTF, kernel module BTFs are exposed through
sysfs as /sys/kernel/btf/&lt;module-name&gt;. This is convenient for user-space
tools to inspect module BTF contents and dump their types with existing tools:

[vmuser@archvm bpf]$ ls -la /sys/kernel/btf
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       0 Nov  4 19:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root       0 Nov  4 19:46 ..

...

-r--r--r--  1 root root     888 Nov  4 19:46 irqbypass
-r--r--r--  1 root root  100225 Nov  4 19:46 kvm
-r--r--r--  1 root root   35401 Nov  4 19:46 kvm_intel
-r--r--r--  1 root root     120 Nov  4 19:46 pcspkr
-r--r--r--  1 root root     399 Nov  4 19:46 serio_raw
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4094095 Nov  4 19:46 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110011932.3201430-5-andrii@kernel.org
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Add kernel module listener that will load/validate and unload module BTF.
Module BTFs gets ID generated for them, which makes it possible to iterate
them with existing BTF iteration API. They are given their respective module's
names, which will get reported through GET_OBJ_INFO API. They are also marked
as in-kernel BTFs for tooling to distinguish them from user-provided BTFs.

Also, similarly to vmlinux BTF, kernel module BTFs are exposed through
sysfs as /sys/kernel/btf/&lt;module-name&gt;. This is convenient for user-space
tools to inspect module BTF contents and dump their types with existing tools:

[vmuser@archvm bpf]$ ls -la /sys/kernel/btf
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       0 Nov  4 19:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root       0 Nov  4 19:46 ..

...

-r--r--r--  1 root root     888 Nov  4 19:46 irqbypass
-r--r--r--  1 root root  100225 Nov  4 19:46 kvm
-r--r--r--  1 root root   35401 Nov  4 19:46 kvm_intel
-r--r--r--  1 root root     120 Nov  4 19:46 pcspkr
-r--r--r--  1 root root     399 Nov  4 19:46 serio_raw
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4094095 Nov  4 19:46 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110011932.3201430-5-andrii@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Implement get_current_task_btf and RET_PTR_TO_BTF_ID</title>
<updated>2020-11-06T16:08:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-06T10:37:43+00:00</published>
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The currently available bpf_get_current_task returns an unsigned integer
which can be used along with BPF_CORE_READ to read data from
the task_struct but still cannot be used as an input argument to a
helper that accepts an ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID of type task_struct.

In order to implement this helper a new return type, RET_PTR_TO_BTF_ID,
is added. This is similar to RET_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL but does not
require checking the nullness of returned pointer.

Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201106103747.2780972-6-kpsingh@chromium.org
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The currently available bpf_get_current_task returns an unsigned integer
which can be used along with BPF_CORE_READ to read data from
the task_struct but still cannot be used as an input argument to a
helper that accepts an ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID of type task_struct.

In order to implement this helper a new return type, RET_PTR_TO_BTF_ID,
is added. This is similar to RET_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL but does not
require checking the nullness of returned pointer.

Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201106103747.2780972-6-kpsingh@chromium.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Permit cond_resched for some iterators</title>
<updated>2020-10-28T21:54:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-28T06:10:54+00:00</published>
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Commit e679654a704e ("bpf: Fix a rcu_sched stall issue with
bpf task/task_file iterator") tries to fix rcu stalls warning
which is caused by bpf task_file iterator when running
"bpftool prog".

      rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
      rcu: \x097-....: (20999 ticks this GP) idle=302/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=1508852/1508852 fqs=4913
      \x09(t=21031 jiffies g=2534773 q=179750)
      NMI backtrace for cpu 7
      CPU: 7 PID: 184195 Comm: bpftool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W         5.8.0-00004-g68bfc7f8c1b4 #6
      Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A17 05/03/2019
      Call Trace:
      &lt;IRQ&gt;
      dump_stack+0x57/0x70
      nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x14/0x53
      ? lapic_can_unplug_cpu.cold+0x39/0x39
      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xb7/0xc7
      rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xa2/0xd0
      rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold+0x1ff/0x3d9
      ? tick_nohz_handler+0x100/0x100
      update_process_times+0x5b/0x90
      tick_sched_timer+0x5e/0xf0
      __hrtimer_run_queues+0x12a/0x2a0
      hrtimer_interrupt+0x10e/0x280
      __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x51/0xe0
      asm_call_on_stack+0xf/0x20
      &lt;/IRQ&gt;
      sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80
      ...
      task_file_seq_next+0x52/0xa0
      bpf_seq_read+0xb9/0x320
      vfs_read+0x9d/0x180
      ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
      do_syscall_64+0x38/0x60
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The fix is to limit the number of bpf program runs to be
one million. This fixed the program in most cases. But
we also found under heavy load, which can increase the wallclock
time for bpf_seq_read(), the warning may still be possible.

For example, calling bpf_delay() in the "while" loop of
bpf_seq_read(), which will introduce artificial delay,
the warning will show up in my qemu run.

  static unsigned q;
  volatile unsigned *p = &amp;q;
  volatile unsigned long long ll;
  static void bpf_delay(void)
  {
         int i, j;

         for (i = 0; i &lt; 10000; i++)
                 for (j = 0; j &lt; 10000; j++)
                         ll += *p;
  }

There are two ways to fix this issue. One is to reduce the above
one million threshold to say 100,000 and hopefully rcu warning will
not show up any more. Another is to introduce a target feature
which enables bpf_seq_read() calling cond_resched().

This patch took second approach as the first approach may cause
more -EAGAIN failures for read() syscalls. Note that not all bpf_iter
targets can permit cond_resched() in bpf_seq_read() as some, e.g.,
netlink seq iterator, rcu read lock critical section spans through
seq_ops-&gt;next() -&gt; seq_ops-&gt;show() -&gt; seq_ops-&gt;next().

For the kernel code with the above hack, "bpftool p" roughly takes
38 seconds to finish on my VM with 184 bpf program runs.
Using the following command, I am able to collect the number of
context switches:
   perf stat -e context-switches -- ./bpftool p &gt;&amp; log
Without this patch,
   69      context-switches
With this patch,
   75      context-switches
This patch added additional 6 context switches, roughly every 6 seconds
to reschedule, to avoid lengthy no-rescheduling which may cause the
above RCU warnings.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028061054.1411116-1-yhs@fb.com
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Commit e679654a704e ("bpf: Fix a rcu_sched stall issue with
bpf task/task_file iterator") tries to fix rcu stalls warning
which is caused by bpf task_file iterator when running
"bpftool prog".

      rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
      rcu: \x097-....: (20999 ticks this GP) idle=302/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=1508852/1508852 fqs=4913
      \x09(t=21031 jiffies g=2534773 q=179750)
      NMI backtrace for cpu 7
      CPU: 7 PID: 184195 Comm: bpftool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W         5.8.0-00004-g68bfc7f8c1b4 #6
      Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A17 05/03/2019
      Call Trace:
      &lt;IRQ&gt;
      dump_stack+0x57/0x70
      nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x14/0x53
      ? lapic_can_unplug_cpu.cold+0x39/0x39
      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xb7/0xc7
      rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xa2/0xd0
      rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold+0x1ff/0x3d9
      ? tick_nohz_handler+0x100/0x100
      update_process_times+0x5b/0x90
      tick_sched_timer+0x5e/0xf0
      __hrtimer_run_queues+0x12a/0x2a0
      hrtimer_interrupt+0x10e/0x280
      __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x51/0xe0
      asm_call_on_stack+0xf/0x20
      &lt;/IRQ&gt;
      sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80
      ...
      task_file_seq_next+0x52/0xa0
      bpf_seq_read+0xb9/0x320
      vfs_read+0x9d/0x180
      ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
      do_syscall_64+0x38/0x60
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The fix is to limit the number of bpf program runs to be
one million. This fixed the program in most cases. But
we also found under heavy load, which can increase the wallclock
time for bpf_seq_read(), the warning may still be possible.

For example, calling bpf_delay() in the "while" loop of
bpf_seq_read(), which will introduce artificial delay,
the warning will show up in my qemu run.

  static unsigned q;
  volatile unsigned *p = &amp;q;
  volatile unsigned long long ll;
  static void bpf_delay(void)
  {
         int i, j;

         for (i = 0; i &lt; 10000; i++)
                 for (j = 0; j &lt; 10000; j++)
                         ll += *p;
  }

There are two ways to fix this issue. One is to reduce the above
one million threshold to say 100,000 and hopefully rcu warning will
not show up any more. Another is to introduce a target feature
which enables bpf_seq_read() calling cond_resched().

This patch took second approach as the first approach may cause
more -EAGAIN failures for read() syscalls. Note that not all bpf_iter
targets can permit cond_resched() in bpf_seq_read() as some, e.g.,
netlink seq iterator, rcu read lock critical section spans through
seq_ops-&gt;next() -&gt; seq_ops-&gt;show() -&gt; seq_ops-&gt;next().

For the kernel code with the above hack, "bpftool p" roughly takes
38 seconds to finish on my VM with 184 bpf program runs.
Using the following command, I am able to collect the number of
context switches:
   perf stat -e context-switches -- ./bpftool p &gt;&amp; log
Without this patch,
   69      context-switches
With this patch,
   75      context-switches
This patch added additional 6 context switches, roughly every 6 seconds
to reschedule, to avoid lengthy no-rescheduling which may cause the
above RCU warnings.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028061054.1411116-1-yhs@fb.com
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<title>bpf: Allow for map-in-map with dynamic inner array map entries</title>
<updated>2020-10-11T17:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-10T23:40:03+00:00</published>
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Recent work in f4d05259213f ("bpf: Add map_meta_equal map ops") and 134fede4eecf
("bpf: Relax max_entries check for most of the inner map types") added support
for dynamic inner max elements for most map-in-map types. Exceptions were maps
like array or prog array where the map_gen_lookup() callback uses the maps'
max_entries field as a constant when emitting instructions.

We recently implemented Maglev consistent hashing into Cilium's load balancer
which uses map-in-map with an outer map being hash and inner being array holding
the Maglev backend table for each service. This has been designed this way in
order to reduce overall memory consumption given the outer hash map allows to
avoid preallocating a large, flat memory area for all services. Also, the
number of service mappings is not always known a-priori.

The use case for dynamic inner array map entries is to further reduce memory
overhead, for example, some services might just have a small number of back
ends while others could have a large number. Right now the Maglev backend table
for small and large number of backends would need to have the same inner array
map entries which adds a lot of unneeded overhead.

Dynamic inner array map entries can be realized by avoiding the inlined code
generation for their lookup. The lookup will still be efficient since it will
be calling into array_map_lookup_elem() directly and thus avoiding retpoline.
The patch adds a BPF_F_INNER_MAP flag to map creation which therefore skips
inline code generation and relaxes array_map_meta_equal() check to ignore both
maps' max_entries. This also still allows to have faster lookups for map-in-map
when BPF_F_INNER_MAP is not specified and hence dynamic max_entries not needed.

Example code generation where inner map is dynamic sized array:

  # bpftool p d x i 125
  int handle__sys_enter(void * ctx):
  ; int handle__sys_enter(void *ctx)
     0: (b4) w1 = 0
  ; int key = 0;
     1: (63) *(u32 *)(r10 -4) = r1
     2: (bf) r2 = r10
  ;
     3: (07) r2 += -4
  ; inner_map = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&amp;outer_arr_dyn, &amp;key);
     4: (18) r1 = map[id:468]
     6: (07) r1 += 272
     7: (61) r0 = *(u32 *)(r2 +0)
     8: (35) if r0 &gt;= 0x3 goto pc+5
     9: (67) r0 &lt;&lt;= 3
    10: (0f) r0 += r1
    11: (79) r0 = *(u64 *)(r0 +0)
    12: (15) if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+1
    13: (05) goto pc+1
    14: (b7) r0 = 0
    15: (b4) w6 = -1
  ; if (!inner_map)
    16: (15) if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+6
    17: (bf) r2 = r10
  ;
    18: (07) r2 += -4
  ; val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(inner_map, &amp;key);
    19: (bf) r1 = r0                               | No inlining but instead
    20: (85) call array_map_lookup_elem#149280     | call to array_map_lookup_elem()
  ; return val ? *val : -1;                        | for inner array lookup.
    21: (15) if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+1
  ; return val ? *val : -1;
    22: (61) r6 = *(u32 *)(r0 +0)
  ; }
    23: (bc) w0 = w6
    24: (95) exit

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201010234006.7075-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
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Recent work in f4d05259213f ("bpf: Add map_meta_equal map ops") and 134fede4eecf
("bpf: Relax max_entries check for most of the inner map types") added support
for dynamic inner max elements for most map-in-map types. Exceptions were maps
like array or prog array where the map_gen_lookup() callback uses the maps'
max_entries field as a constant when emitting instructions.

We recently implemented Maglev consistent hashing into Cilium's load balancer
which uses map-in-map with an outer map being hash and inner being array holding
the Maglev backend table for each service. This has been designed this way in
order to reduce overall memory consumption given the outer hash map allows to
avoid preallocating a large, flat memory area for all services. Also, the
number of service mappings is not always known a-priori.

The use case for dynamic inner array map entries is to further reduce memory
overhead, for example, some services might just have a small number of back
ends while others could have a large number. Right now the Maglev backend table
for small and large number of backends would need to have the same inner array
map entries which adds a lot of unneeded overhead.

Dynamic inner array map entries can be realized by avoiding the inlined code
generation for their lookup. The lookup will still be efficient since it will
be calling into array_map_lookup_elem() directly and thus avoiding retpoline.
The patch adds a BPF_F_INNER_MAP flag to map creation which therefore skips
inline code generation and relaxes array_map_meta_equal() check to ignore both
maps' max_entries. This also still allows to have faster lookups for map-in-map
when BPF_F_INNER_MAP is not specified and hence dynamic max_entries not needed.

Example code generation where inner map is dynamic sized array:

  # bpftool p d x i 125
  int handle__sys_enter(void * ctx):
  ; int handle__sys_enter(void *ctx)
     0: (b4) w1 = 0
  ; int key = 0;
     1: (63) *(u32 *)(r10 -4) = r1
     2: (bf) r2 = r10
  ;
     3: (07) r2 += -4
  ; inner_map = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&amp;outer_arr_dyn, &amp;key);
     4: (18) r1 = map[id:468]
     6: (07) r1 += 272
     7: (61) r0 = *(u32 *)(r2 +0)
     8: (35) if r0 &gt;= 0x3 goto pc+5
     9: (67) r0 &lt;&lt;= 3
    10: (0f) r0 += r1
    11: (79) r0 = *(u64 *)(r0 +0)
    12: (15) if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+1
    13: (05) goto pc+1
    14: (b7) r0 = 0
    15: (b4) w6 = -1
  ; if (!inner_map)
    16: (15) if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+6
    17: (bf) r2 = r10
  ;
    18: (07) r2 += -4
  ; val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(inner_map, &amp;key);
    19: (bf) r1 = r0                               | No inlining but instead
    20: (85) call array_map_lookup_elem#149280     | call to array_map_lookup_elem()
  ; return val ? *val : -1;                        | for inner array lookup.
    21: (15) if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+1
  ; return val ? *val : -1;
    22: (61) r6 = *(u32 *)(r0 +0)
  ; }
    23: (bc) w0 = w6
    24: (95) exit

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201010234006.7075-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
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