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Implement support in the verifier for replacing may_goto implementation from a counter-based approach to one which samples time on the local CPU to have a bigger loop bound. We implement it by maintaining 16-bytes per-stack frame, and using 8 bytes for maintaining the count for amortizing time sampling, and 8 bytes for the starting timestamp. To minimize overhead, we need to avoid spilling and filling of registers around this sequence, so we push this cost into the time sampling function 'arch_bpf_timed_may_goto'. This is a JIT-specific wrapper around bpf_check_timed_may_goto which returns us the count to store into the stack through BPF_REG_AX. All caller-saved registers (r0-r5) are guaranteed to remain untouched. The loop can be broken by returning count as 0, otherwise we dispatch into the function when the count drops to 0, and the runtime chooses to refresh it (by returning count as BPF_MAX_TIMED_LOOPS) or returning 0 and aborting the loop on next iteration. Since the check for 0 is done right after loading the count from the stack, all subsequent cond_break sequences should immediately break as well, of the same loop or subsequent loops in the program. We pass in the stack_depth of the count (and thus the timestamp, by adding 8 to it) to the arch_bpf_timed_may_goto call so that it can be passed in to bpf_check_timed_may_goto as an argument after r1 is saved, by adding the offset to r10/fp. This adjustment will be arch specific, and the next patch will introduce support for x86. Note that depending on loop complexity, time spent in the loop can be more than the current limit (250 ms), but imposing an upper bound on program runtime is an orthogonal problem which will be addressed when program cancellations are supported. The current time afforded by cond_break may not be enough for cases where BPF programs want to implement locking algorithms inline, and use cond_break as a promise to the verifier that they will eventually terminate. Below are some benchmarking numbers on the time taken per-iteration for an empty loop that counts the number of iterations until cond_break fires. For comparison, we compare it against bpf_for/bpf_repeat which is another way to achieve the same number of spins (BPF_MAX_LOOPS). The hardware used for benchmarking was a Sapphire Rapids Intel server with performance governor enabled, mitigations were enabled. +-----------------------------+--------------+--------------+------------------+ | Loop type | Iterations | Time (ms) | Time/iter (ns) | +-----------------------------|--------------+--------------+------------------+ | may_goto | 8388608 | 3 | 0.36 | | timed_may_goto (count=65535)| 589674932 | 250 | 0.42 | | bpf_for | 8388608 | 10 | 1.19 | +-----------------------------+--------------+--------------+------------------+ This gives a good approximation at low overhead while staying close to the current implementation. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304003239.2390751-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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