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Alexei Starovoitov f14cdb1367 Merge branch 'remove-kf_sleepable-from-arena-kfuncs'
Puranjay Mohan says:

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Remove KF_SLEEPABLE from arena kfuncs

V7: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251222190815.4112944-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in V7->v8:
- Use clear_lo32(arena->user_vm_start) in place of user_vm_start in patch 3

V6: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251217184438.3557859-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v6->v7:
- Fix a deadlock in patch 1, that was being fixed in patch 2. Move the fix to patch 1.
- Call flush_cache_vmap() after setting up the mappings as it is
  required by some architectures.

V5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212044516.37513-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v5->v6:
Patch 1:
	- Add a missing ; to make sure this patch builds individually. (AI)

V4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212004350.6520-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v4->v5:
Patch 1:
	- Fix a memory leak in arena_alloc_pages(), it was being fixed in
	  Patch 3 but, every patch should be complete in itself. (AI)
Patch 3:
	- Don't do useless addition in arena_alloc_pages() (Alexei)
	- Add a comment about kmalloc_nolock() failure and expectations.

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251117160150.62183-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v3->v4:
	- Coding style changes related to comments in Patch 2/3 (Alexei)

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251114111700.43292-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v2->v3:
Patch 1:
        - Call range_tree_destroy() in error path of
          populate_pgtable_except_pte() in arena_map_alloc() (AI)
Patch 2:
        - Fix double mutex_unlock() in the error path of
          arena_alloc_pages() (AI)
        - Fix coding style issues (Alexei)
Patch 3:
        - Unlock spinlock before returning from arena_vm_fault() in case
          BPF_F_SEGV_ON_FAULT is set by user. (AI)
        - Use __llist_del_all() in place of llist_del_all for on-stack
          llist (free_pages) (Alexei)
        - Fix build issues on 32-bit systems where arena.c is not compiled.
          (kernel test robot)
        - Make bpf_arena_alloc_pages() polymorphic so it knows if it has
          been called in sleepable or non-sleepable context. This
          information is passed to arena_free_pages() in the error path.
Patch 4:
        - Add a better comment for the big_alloc3() test that triggers
          kmalloc_nolock()'s limit and if bpf_arena_alloc_pages() works
          correctly above this limit.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251111163424.16471-1-puranjay@kernel.org/
Changes in v1->v2:
Patch 1:
        - Import tlbflush.h to fix build issue in loongarch. (kernel
          test robot)
        - Fix unused variable error in apply_range_clear_cb() (kernel
          test robot)
        - Call bpf_map_area_free() on error path of
          populate_pgtable_except_pte() (AI)
        - Use PAGE_SIZE in apply_to_existing_page_range() (AI)
Patch 2:
        - Cap allocation made by kmalloc_nolock() for pages array to
          KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE and reuse the array in an explicit loop
          to overcome this limit. (AI)
Patch 3:
        - Do page_ref_add(page, 1); under the spinlock to mitigate a
          race (AI)
Patch 4:
        - Add a new testcase big_alloc3() verifier_arena_large.c that
          tries to allocate a large number of pages at once, this is to
          trigger the kmalloc_nolock() limit in Patch 2 and see if the
          loop logic works correctly.

This set allows arena kfuncs to be called from non-sleepable contexts.
It is acheived by the following changes:

The range_tree is now protected with a rqspinlock and not a mutex,
this change is enough to make bpf_arena_reserve_pages() any context
safe.

bpf_arena_alloc_pages() had four points where it could sleep:

1. Mutex to protect range_tree: now replaced with rqspinlock

2. kvcalloc() for allocations: now replaced with kmalloc_nolock()

3. Allocating pages with bpf_map_alloc_pages(): this already calls
   alloc_pages_nolock() in non-sleepable contexts and therefore is safe.

4. Setting up kernel page tables with vm_area_map_pages():
   vm_area_map_pages() may allocate memory while inserting pages into
   bpf arena's vm_area. Now, at arena creation time populate all page
   table levels except the last level and when new pages need to be
   inserted call apply_to_page_range() again which will only do
   set_pte_at() for those pages and will not allocate memory.

The above four changes make bpf_arena_alloc_pages() any context safe.

bpf_arena_free_pages() has to do the following steps:

1. Update the range_tree
2. vm_area_unmap_pages(): to unmap pages from kernel vm_area
3. flush the tlb: done in step 2, already.
4. zap_pages(): to unmap pages from user page tables
5. free pages.

The third patch in this set makes bpf_arena_free_pages() polymorphic using
the specialize_kfunc() mechanism. When called from a sleepable context,
arena_free_pages() remains mostly unchanged except the following:
1. rqspinlock is taken now instead of the mutex for the range tree
2. Instead of using vm_area_unmap_pages() that can free intermediate page
   table levels, apply_to_existing_page_range() with a callback is used
   that only does pte_clear() on the last level and leaves the intermediate
   page table levels intact. This is needed to make sure that
   bpf_arena_alloc_pages() can safely do set_pte_at() without allocating
   intermediate page tables.

When arena_free_pages() is called from a non-sleepable context or it fails to
acquire the rqspinlock in the sleepable case, a lock-less list of struct
arena_free_span is used to queue the uaddr and page cnt. kmalloc_nolock()
is used to allocate this arena_free_span, this can fail but we need to make
this trade-off for frees done from non-sleepable contexts.

arena_free_pages() then raises an irq_work whose handler in turn schedules
work that iterate this list and clears ptes, flushes tlbs, zap pages, and
frees pages for the queued uaddr and page cnts.

apply_range_clear_cb() with apply_to_existing_page_range() is used to
clear PTEs and collect pages to be freed, struct llist_node pcp_llist;
in the struct page is used to do this.
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251222195022.431211-1-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-12-23 11:30:00 -08:00
arch bpf: arm64: Fix sparse warnings 2025-12-21 16:57:23 -08:00
block block-6.19-20251211 2025-12-12 22:04:18 +12:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Networking changes for 6.19. 2025-12-03 17:24:33 -08:00
Documentation lib/Kconfig.debug: Set the minimum required pahole version to v1.22 2025-12-19 10:55:40 -08:00
drivers SCSI misc on 20251214 2025-12-14 15:35:35 +12:00
fs a couple of shmem rename fixes - recent regression from tree-in-dcache 2025-12-16 19:44:36 +12:00
include bpf: arena: make arena kfuncs any context safe 2025-12-23 11:30:00 -08:00
init kbuild: Sync kconfig when PAHOLE_VERSION changes 2025-12-19 10:55:40 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.19-20251211 2025-12-12 22:01:32 +12:00
ipc Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
kernel bpf: arena: make arena kfuncs any context safe 2025-12-23 11:30:00 -08:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: Set the minimum required pahole version to v1.22 2025-12-19 10:55:40 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add modern form of the LGPL-2.1 tags to the usage guide section 2025-10-22 07:58:19 +02:00
mm mm: introduce BPF kfuncs to access memcg statistics and events 2025-12-22 22:20:22 -08:00
net bpf-fixes 2025-12-17 15:54:58 +12:00
rust USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.19-rc1 2025-12-06 18:42:12 -08:00
samples USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.19-rc1 2025-12-06 18:42:12 -08:00
scripts resolve_btfids: Change in-place update with raw binary output 2025-12-19 10:55:40 -08:00
security Trivial optimization. 2025-12-14 15:21:02 +12:00
sound soundwire updates for 6.19 2025-12-13 16:26:55 +12:00
tools selftests: bpf: test non-sleepable arena allocations 2025-12-23 11:30:00 -08:00
usr initramfs: add gen_init_cpio to hostprogs unconditionally 2025-11-26 21:55:40 +01:00
virt soc: driver updates for 6.19 2025-12-05 17:29:04 -08:00
.clang-format s390/pci: Fix cyclic dead-lock in zpci_zdev_put() and zpci_scan_devices() 2025-12-14 11:03:58 +01:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: kbuild: add proc macro library support 2025-11-24 17:15:36 +01:00
.mailmap Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
.pylintrc docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python 2025-11-18 09:22:40 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS phy-for-6.19 2025-12-09 06:31:47 +09:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add an entry for MM BPF extensions 2025-12-22 22:20:22 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: Sync kconfig when PAHOLE_VERSION changes 2025-12-19 10:55:40 -08:00
README README: restructure with role-based documentation and guidelines 2025-11-29 08:40:33 -07:00

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