From: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
kkd@meta.com, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v3 17/18] bpf, arm64: Allow programs 2 KiB of stack
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:31:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924163144.1945455-18-memxor@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924163144.1945455-1-memxor@gmail.com>
The arm64 JIT sets up a frame with an add/sub immediate, which encodes
up to 4 KiB directly, addresses the BPF stack relative to SP or the
private stack pointer with offsets that fall back to a scratch register
when they do not fit the load/store immediate, and a tail call pops the
current frame and lands in the target's prologue before the target
sets up its own. The exception callback reuses the frame record of the
main program and does not depend on its size. Report
bpf_jit_supports_large_stack() to give JITed programs the same 2 KiB
budget as on x86-64.
Tested on an emulated arm64 guest with programs loaded and run through
the raw bpf() syscall: a 2 KiB frame, a 2 KiB frame with may_goto, a
chain of four 512-byte frames, and a tail call from a program with a
2 KiB frame into another one; a 2056-byte frame and five 512-byte frames
are rejected. The selftest suite was not run on arm64.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst | 11 ++++++-----
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
index be5fc4ac00d6..98d70b8a2533 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
@@ -223,11 +223,12 @@ Q: How much stack space a BPF program uses?
-------------------------------------------
A: A program may use up to 2 KiB of stack, combined over its call
chain, when the JIT of the architecture reports support for large
-stacks (currently x86-64); a single function may use all of it, and
-every frame of a program running on a private stack gets the whole
-amount. Elsewhere, and whenever the interpreter is used, the limit is
-512 bytes. The verifier computes the actual amount of stack used and
-both interpreter and most JITed code consume necessary amount.
+stacks (currently x86-64 and arm64); a single function may use all of
+it, and every frame of a program running on a private stack gets the
+whole amount. Elsewhere, and for programs verified for the interpreter,
+the limit is 512 bytes; the interpreter itself never runs a frame
+larger than that. The verifier computes the actual amount of stack
+used and both interpreter and most JITed code consume necessary amount.
Q: Can BPF be offloaded to HW?
------------------------------
diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index 9544b2f483e5..2b2d6d178ea1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -2501,6 +2501,11 @@ bool bpf_jit_supports_callx(void)
return true;
}
+bool bpf_jit_supports_large_stack(void)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
static void invoke_bpf_prog(struct jit_ctx *ctx, struct bpf_tramp_node *node,
int bargs_off, int retval_off, int run_ctx_off,
bool save_ret)
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 16:31 [PATCH bpf-next v3 00/18] Raise BPF program stack size to 2KiB Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 01/18] bpf: Add accessors for verifier stack slots Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 02/18] bpf: Widen the stack slot index in the jump history Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 03/18] bpf: Store linked registers in the jump history as an array Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 04/18] bpf: Track backtracking stack slots with bitmaps Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 05/18] bpf: Track scratched stack slots with a bitmap Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 06/18] bpf: Treat unknown-size stack reads as reaching the frame top Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 07/18] bpf: Size liveness stack masks by the stack each frame uses Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 08/18] bpf: Grow the verifier id scratch on demand Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 09/18] selftests/bpf: Cover the tail call caller stack depth limit Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 10/18] selftests/bpf: Check that narrow stack stores define no slot Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 11/18] selftests/bpf: Check liveness merge of masks with different widths Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 12/18] bpf: Size the per-frame verifier structures for a 2 KiB stack Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 13/18] bpf: Bound program stack use by a per-program limit Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 17:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 14/18] selftests/bpf: Add load conditions on the program stack limit Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 15/18] selftests/bpf: Give the 512-byte stack boundary tests a 2 KiB twin Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 16/18] bpf, x86: Allow programs 2 KiB of stack Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 16:31 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi [this message]
2026-09-24 16:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 18/18] selftests/bpf: Test the 2 KiB stack budget Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
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