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From: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Protopopov <aspsk@isovalent.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
	Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 6/7] libbpf: BPF Static Keys support
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 20:15:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bef79c65-e89a-4219-8c8b-750c60e1f2b4@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQJtWVE9+rA2232P4g7ktUJ_+Nfwo+MYpv=6p7+Z9J20hw@mail.gmail.com>


On 12/8/23 8:05 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 2:04 PM Andrii Nakryiko
> <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I feel like embedding some sort of ID inside the instruction is very..
>> unusual, shall we say?
> yeah. no magic numbers inside insns pls.
>
> I don't like JA_CFG name, since I read CFG as control flow graph,
> while you probably meant CFG as configurable.
> How about BPF_JA_OR_NOP ?
> Then in combination with BPF_JMP or BPF_JMP32 modifier
> the insn->off|imm will be used.
> 1st bit in src_reg can indicate the default action: nop or jmp.
> In asm it may look like asm("goto_or_nop +5")

How does the C source code looks like in order to generate
BPF_JA_OR_NOP insn? Any source examples?

>
>> 2. bpf_static_branch_{likely,unlikely}() macro accepts a reference to
>> one such special global variable and and instructs compiler to emit
>> relocation between static key variable and JMP_CFG instruction.
>>
>> Libbpf will properly update these relocations during static linking
>> and subprog rearrangement, just like we do it for map references
>> today.
> Right. libbpf has RELO_SUBPROG_ADDR.
> This new relo will be pretty much that.
> And we have proper C syntax for taking an address: &&label.
> The bpf_static_branch macro can use it.
> We wanted to add it for a long time to support proper
> switch() and jmp tables.
>
> I don't like IDs and new map type for this.
> The macro can have 'branch_name' as one of the arguments and
> it will populate addresses of insns into "name.static_branch" section.
>
>  From libbpf pov it will be yet another global section which
> is represented as a traditional bpf array of one element.
> No extra handling on the libbpf side.
>
> The question is how to represent the "address" of the insn.
> I think 4 byte prog_id + 4 byte insn_idx will do.
>
> Then bpf prog can pass such "address" into bpf_static_branch_enable/disable
> kfunc.
>
> The user space can iterate over 8 byte "addresses"
> in that 1 element array map and call BPF_STATIC_BRANCH_ENABLE/DISABLE
> syscall cmds.
> We can have a helper on libbpf side for that.
>
> I see no need to introduce a new map type just to reuse map_update_elem cmd.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-09  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-06 14:10 [PATCH bpf-next 0/7] BPF Static Keys Anton Protopopov
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/7] bpf: extract bpf_prog_bind_map logic into an inline helper Anton Protopopov
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/7] bpf: rename and export a struct definition Anton Protopopov
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/7] bpf: adjust functions offsets when patching progs Anton Protopopov
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/7] bpf: implement BPF Static Keys support Anton Protopopov
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 5/7] bpf: x86: implement static keys support Anton Protopopov
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 6/7] libbpf: BPF Static Keys support Anton Protopopov
2023-12-08  3:45   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-08 16:19     ` Anton Protopopov
2023-12-08 22:04       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-12-08 23:07         ` Eduard Zingerman
2023-12-09  4:07           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-09  4:05         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-09  4:15           ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2023-12-09  4:25             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-09  5:04               ` Yonghong Song
2023-12-09 17:18                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-10  6:32                   ` Yonghong Song
2023-12-10 10:30                     ` Eduard Zingerman
2023-12-11  3:33                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-11 18:49                         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-12-12 10:25                         ` Anton Protopopov
2023-12-14  2:15                           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-14  3:04                             ` Yonghong Song
2023-12-14 16:56                               ` Eduard Zingerman
2023-12-14 16:33                             ` Anton Protopopov
2023-12-11 17:31                     ` Anton Protopopov
2023-12-11 19:08                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-12-12  9:06                         ` Anton Protopopov
2023-12-11 21:51                       ` Yonghong Song
2023-12-11 22:52                         ` Yonghong Song
2023-12-06 14:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 7/7] selftests/bpf: Add tests for BPF Static Keys Anton Protopopov

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