[PATCH bpf 03/12] selftests/bpf: fix bpf_loop_bench for new callback verification scheme

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The patch a few patches from this one changes logic for callbacks
handling. While previously callbacks were verified as a single
function call, new scheme takes into account that callbacks could be
executed unknown number of times.

This has dire implications for bpf_loop_bench:

    SEC("fentry/" SYS_PREFIX "sys_getpgid")
    int benchmark(void *ctx)
    {
            for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
                    bpf_loop(nr_loops, empty_callback, NULL, 0);
                    __sync_add_and_fetch(&hits, nr_loops);
            }
            return 0;
    }

W/o callbacks change for verifier it merely represents 1000 calls to
empty_callback(). However, with callbacks change things become
exponential:
- i=0: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=0 (a);
- i=1: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=1;
  ...
- i=999: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=999;
- state (a) is popped from stack;
- i=1: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=1;
  ...

Avoid this issue by rewriting outer loop as bpf_loop().
Unfortunately, this adds a function call to a loop at runtime, which
negatively affects performance:

            throughput               latency
   before:  149.919 ± 0.168 M ops/s, 6.670 ns/op
   after :  137.040 ± 0.187 M ops/s, 7.297 ns/op

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c
index 4ce76eb064c4..d461746fd3c1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c
@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ static int empty_callback(__u32 index, void *data)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int outer_loop(__u32 index, void *data)
+{
+	bpf_loop(nr_loops, empty_callback, NULL, 0);
+	__sync_add_and_fetch(&hits, nr_loops);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 SEC("fentry/" SYS_PREFIX "sys_getpgid")
 int benchmark(void *ctx)
 {
-	for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
-		bpf_loop(nr_loops, empty_callback, NULL, 0);
-
-		__sync_add_and_fetch(&hits, nr_loops);
-	}
+	bpf_loop(1000, outer_loop, NULL, 0);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.42.0





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