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* [PATCH bpf-next v7 0/4] Remove KF_SLEEPABLE from arena kfuncs
@ 2025-12-22 19:08 Puranjay Mohan
  2025-12-22 19:08 ` [PATCH bpf-next v7 1/4] bpf: arena: populate vm_area without allocating memory Puranjay Mohan
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From: Puranjay Mohan @ 2025-12-22 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bpf
  Cc: Puranjay Mohan, Puranjay Mohan, Alexei Starovoitov,
	Andrii Nakryiko, Daniel Borkmann, Martin KaFai Lau,
	Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, kernel-team

V6: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251217184438.3557859-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v6->v7:
- Fix a deadlock in patch 1, that was being fixed in patch 2. Move the fix to patch 1.
- Call flush_cache_vmap() after setting up the mappings as it is
  required by some architectures.

V5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212044516.37513-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v5->v6:
Patch 1:
	- Add a missing ; to make sure this patch builds individually. (AI)

V4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212004350.6520-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v4->v5:
Patch 1:
	- Fix a memory leak in arena_alloc_pages(), it was being fixed in
	  Patch 3 but, every patch should be complete in itself. (AI)
Patch 3:
	- Don't do useless addition in arena_alloc_pages() (Alexei)
	- Add a comment about kmalloc_nolock() failure and expectations.

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251117160150.62183-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v3->v4:
	- Coding style changes related to comments in Patch 2/3 (Alexei)

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251114111700.43292-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v2->v3:
Patch 1:
        - Call range_tree_destroy() in error path of
          populate_pgtable_except_pte() in arena_map_alloc() (AI)
Patch 2:
        - Fix double mutex_unlock() in the error path of
          arena_alloc_pages() (AI)
        - Fix coding style issues (Alexei)
Patch 3:
        - Unlock spinlock before returning from arena_vm_fault() in case
          BPF_F_SEGV_ON_FAULT is set by user. (AI)
        - Use __llist_del_all() in place of llist_del_all for on-stack
          llist (free_pages) (Alexei)
        - Fix build issues on 32-bit systems where arena.c is not compiled.
          (kernel test robot)
        - Make bpf_arena_alloc_pages() polymorphic so it knows if it has
          been called in sleepable or non-sleepable context. This
          information is passed to arena_free_pages() in the error path.
Patch 4:
        - Add a better comment for the big_alloc3() test that triggers
          kmalloc_nolock()'s limit and if bpf_arena_alloc_pages() works
          correctly above this limit.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251111163424.16471-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v1->v2:
Patch 1:
        - Import tlbflush.h to fix build issue in loongarch. (kernel
          test robot)
        - Fix unused variable error in apply_range_clear_cb() (kernel
          test robot)
        - Call bpf_map_area_free() on error path of
          populate_pgtable_except_pte() (AI)
        - Use PAGE_SIZE in apply_to_existing_page_range() (AI)
Patch 2:
        - Cap allocation made by kmalloc_nolock() for pages array to
          KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE and reuse the array in an explicit loop
          to overcome this limit. (AI)
Patch 3:
        - Do page_ref_add(page, 1); under the spinlock to mitigate a
          race (AI)
Patch 4:
        - Add a new testcase big_alloc3() verifier_arena_large.c that
          tries to allocate a large number of pages at once, this is to
          trigger the kmalloc_nolock() limit in Patch 2 and see if the
          loop logic works correctly.

This set allows arena kfuncs to be called from non-sleepable contexts.
It is acheived by the following changes:

The range_tree is now protected with a rqspinlock and not a mutex,
this change is enough to make bpf_arena_reserve_pages() any context
safe.

bpf_arena_alloc_pages() had four points where it could sleep:

1. Mutex to protect range_tree: now replaced with rqspinlock

2. kvcalloc() for allocations: now replaced with kmalloc_nolock()

3. Allocating pages with bpf_map_alloc_pages(): this already calls
   alloc_pages_nolock() in non-sleepable contexts and therefore is safe.

4. Setting up kernel page tables with vm_area_map_pages():
   vm_area_map_pages() may allocate memory while inserting pages into
   bpf arena's vm_area. Now, at arena creation time populate all page
   table levels except the last level and when new pages need to be
   inserted call apply_to_page_range() again which will only do
   set_pte_at() for those pages and will not allocate memory.

The above four changes make bpf_arena_alloc_pages() any context safe.

bpf_arena_free_pages() has to do the following steps:

1. Update the range_tree
2. vm_area_unmap_pages(): to unmap pages from kernel vm_area
3. flush the tlb: done in step 2, already.
4. zap_pages(): to unmap pages from user page tables
5. free pages.

The third patch in this set makes bpf_arena_free_pages() polymorphic using
the specialize_kfunc() mechanism. When called from a sleepable context,
arena_free_pages() remains mostly unchanged except the following:
1. rqspinlock is taken now instead of the mutex for the range tree
2. Instead of using vm_area_unmap_pages() that can free intermediate page
   table levels, apply_to_existing_page_range() with a callback is used
   that only does pte_clear() on the last level and leaves the intermediate
   page table levels intact. This is needed to make sure that
   bpf_arena_alloc_pages() can safely do set_pte_at() without allocating
   intermediate page tables.

When arena_free_pages() is called from a non-sleepable context or it fails to
acquire the rqspinlock in the sleepable case, a lock-less list of struct
arena_free_span is used to queue the uaddr and page cnt. kmalloc_nolock()
is used to allocate this arena_free_span, this can fail but we need to make
this trade-off for frees done from non-sleepable contexts.

arena_free_pages() then raises an irq_work whose handler in turn schedules
work that iterate this list and clears ptes, flushes tlbs, zap pages, and
frees pages for the queued uaddr and page cnts.

apply_range_clear_cb() with apply_to_existing_page_range() is used to
clear PTEs and collect pages to be freed, struct llist_node pcp_llist;
in the struct page is used to do this.

Puranjay Mohan (4):
  bpf: arena: populate vm_area without allocating memory
  bpf: arena: use kmalloc_nolock() in place of kvcalloc()
  bpf: arena: make arena kfuncs any context safe
  selftests: bpf: test non-sleepable arena allocations

 include/linux/bpf.h                           |  16 +
 kernel/bpf/arena.c                            | 380 +++++++++++++++---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c                         |  10 +
 .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c     |  20 +-
 .../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_list.c  |  11 +
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena.c      | 185 +++++++++
 .../bpf/progs/verifier_arena_large.c          |  29 ++
 7 files changed, 592 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)


base-commit: f785a31395d9cafb8b2c42c7358fad72a6463142
-- 
2.47.3


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