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From: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>,
	Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>,
	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
	Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] selftests/bpf: Adjust wasted entries threshold for ARM64 BRBE
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:16:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318171706.2840512-5-puranjay@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260318171706.2840512-1-puranjay@kernel.org>

The get_branch_snapshot test checks that bpf_get_branch_snapshot()
doesn't waste too many branch entries on infrastructure overhead. The
threshold of < 10 was calibrated for x86 where about 7 entries are
wasted.

On ARM64, the BPF trampoline generates more branches than x86,
resulting in about 13 wasted entries. The overhead comes from the BPF
trampoline calling __bpf_prog_enter_recur which on ARM64 makes
out-of-line calls to __rcu_read_lock and generates more conditional
branches than x86:

 [#12] bpf_testmod_loop_test+0x40    -> bpf_trampoline_...+0x48
 [#11] bpf_trampoline_...+0x68       -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x0
 [#10] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x20   -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x118
 [#09] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x154  -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x160
 [#08] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x164  -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x2c
 [#07] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x2c   -> __rcu_read_lock+0x0
 [#06] __rcu_read_lock+0x18          -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x30
 [#05] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x9c   -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0xf0
 [#04] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0xf4   -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0xa8
 [#03] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0xb8   -> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x100
 [#02] __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x114  -> bpf_trampoline_...+0x6c
 [#01] bpf_trampoline_...+0x78       -> bpf_prog_...test1+0x0
 [#00] bpf_prog_...test1+0x58        -> arm_brbe_snapshot_branch_stack+0x0

Use an architecture-specific threshold of < 14 for ARM64 to accommodate
this overhead while still detecting regressions.

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
---
 .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/get_branch_snapshot.c  | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/get_branch_snapshot.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/get_branch_snapshot.c
index 0394a1156d99..8d1a3480767f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/get_branch_snapshot.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/get_branch_snapshot.c
@@ -116,13 +116,18 @@ void serial_test_get_branch_snapshot(void)
 
 	ASSERT_GT(skel->bss->test1_hits, 6, "find_looptest_in_lbr");
 
-	/* Given we stop LBR in software, we will waste a few entries.
+	/* Given we stop LBR/BRBE in software, we will waste a few entries.
 	 * But we should try to waste as few as possible entries. We are at
-	 * about 7 on x86_64 systems.
-	 * Add a check for < 10 so that we get heads-up when something
-	 * changes and wastes too many entries.
+	 * about 7 on x86_64 and about 13 on arm64 systems (the arm64 BPF
+	 * trampoline generates more branches than x86_64).
+	 * Add a check so that we get heads-up when something changes and
+	 * wastes too many entries.
 	 */
+#if defined(__aarch64__)
+	ASSERT_LT(skel->bss->wasted_entries, 14, "check_wasted_entries");
+#else
 	ASSERT_LT(skel->bss->wasted_entries, 10, "check_wasted_entries");
+#endif
 
 cleanup:
 	get_branch_snapshot__destroy(skel);
-- 
2.52.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-18 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-18 17:16 [PATCH v2 0/4] arm64: Add BRBE support for bpf_get_branch_snapshot() Puranjay Mohan
2026-03-18 17:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] perf/arm_pmuv3: Fix NULL pointer dereference in armv8pmu_sched_task() Puranjay Mohan
2026-03-18 17:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] perf: Fix uninitialized bitfields in perf_clear_branch_entry_bitfields() Puranjay Mohan
2026-03-18 17:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] perf/arm64: Add BRBE support for bpf_get_branch_snapshot() Puranjay Mohan
2026-03-18 17:16 ` Puranjay Mohan [this message]
2026-03-26  8:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] arm64: " Puranjay Mohan
2026-03-26 11:01   ` Will Deacon

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