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* [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Remove migrate_disable in kprobe_multi_link_prog_run
@ 2025-08-05 12:23 Tao Chen
  2025-08-05 15:48 ` Yonghong Song
  2025-08-05 16:04 ` Jiri Olsa
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tao Chen @ 2025-08-05 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: song, jolsa, ast, daniel, andrii, martin.lau, eddyz87,
	yonghong.song, john.fastabend, kpsingh, sdf, haoluo,
	mattbobrowski, rostedt, mhiramat, mathieu.desnoyers
  Cc: bpf, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel, Tao Chen

bpf program should run under migration disabled, kprobe_multi_link_prog_run
called the way from graph tracer, which disables preemption in
function_graph_enter_regs, as Jiri and Yonghong suggested, there is no
need to use migrate_disable. As a result, some overhead maybe will be
reduced.

Fixes: 0dcac2725406 ("bpf: Add multi kprobe link")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
---
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index 3ae52978cae..1993fc62539 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -2734,14 +2734,19 @@ kprobe_multi_link_prog_run(struct bpf_kprobe_multi_link *link,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	migrate_disable();
+	/*
+	 * bpf program should run under migration disabled, kprobe_multi_link_prog_run
+	 * called the way from graph tracer, which disables preemption in
+	 * function_graph_enter_regs, so there is no need to use migrate_disable.
+	 * Accessing the above percpu data bpf_prog_active is also safe for the same
+	 * reason.
+	 */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	regs = ftrace_partial_regs(fregs, bpf_kprobe_multi_pt_regs_ptr());
 	old_run_ctx = bpf_set_run_ctx(&run_ctx.session_ctx.run_ctx);
 	err = bpf_prog_run(link->link.prog, regs);
 	bpf_reset_run_ctx(old_run_ctx);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-	migrate_enable();
 
  out:
 	__this_cpu_dec(bpf_prog_active);
-- 
2.48.1


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