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authorHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>2024-01-05 18:48:17 +0800
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2024-01-23 14:40:21 -0800
commit7c05e7f3e74e7e550534d524e04d7e6f78d6fa24 (patch)
tree83d12bcddc908580f8bc73f5572ddeda96561665 /include/linux/filter.h
parent2121c43f88f593eea51d483bedd638cb0623c7e2 (diff)
bpf: Support inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() helper
The motivation of inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() comes from the performance profiling of bpf memory allocator benchmark. The benchmark uses bpf_kptr_xchg() to stash the allocated objects and to pop the stashed objects for free. After inling bpf_kptr_xchg(), the performance for object free on 8-CPUs VM increases about 2%~10%. The inline also has downside: both the kasan and kcsan checks on the pointer will be unavailable. bpf_kptr_xchg() can be inlined by converting the calling of bpf_kptr_xchg() into an atomic_xchg() instruction. But the conversion depends on two conditions: 1) JIT backend supports atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized word 2) For the specific arch, the implementation of xchg is the same as atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized words. It seems most 64-bit JIT backends satisfies these two conditions. But as a precaution, defining a weak function bpf_jit_supports_ptr_xchg() to state whether such conversion is safe and only supporting inline for 64-bit host. For x86-64, it supports BPF_XCHG atomic operation and both xchg() and atomic_xchg() use arch_xchg() to implement the exchange, so enabling the inline of bpf_kptr_xchg() on x86-64 first. Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240105104819.3916743-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/filter.h b/include/linux/filter.h
index 68fb6c8142fe..35f067fd3840 100644
--- a/include/linux/filter.h
+++ b/include/linux/filter.h
@@ -955,6 +955,7 @@ bool bpf_jit_supports_subprog_tailcalls(void);
bool bpf_jit_supports_kfunc_call(void);
bool bpf_jit_supports_far_kfunc_call(void);
bool bpf_jit_supports_exceptions(void);
+bool bpf_jit_supports_ptr_xchg(void);
void arch_bpf_stack_walk(bool (*consume_fn)(void *cookie, u64 ip, u64 sp, u64 bp), void *cookie);
bool bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data(void *func);