Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> Add ability to memory-map contents of BPF array map. This is extremely useful
> for working with BPF global data from userspace programs. It allows to avoid
> typical bpf_map_{lookup,update}_elem operations, improving both performance
> and usability.
>
> There had to be special considerations for map freezing, to avoid having
> writable memory view into a frozen map. To solve this issue, map freezing and
> mmap-ing is happening under mutex now:
> - if map is already frozen, no writable mapping is allowed;
> - if map has writable memory mappings active (accounted in map->writecnt),
> map freezing will keep failing with -EBUSY;
> - once number of writable memory mappings drops to zero, map freezing can be
> performed again.
>
> Only non-per-CPU plain arrays are supported right now. Maps with spinlocks
> can't be memory mapped either.
>
> For BPF_F_MMAPABLE array, memory allocation has to be done through vmalloc()
> to be mmap()'able. We also need to make sure that array data memory is
> page-sized and page-aligned, so we over-allocate memory in such a way that
> struct bpf_array is at the end of a single page of memory with array->value
> being aligned with the start of the second page. On deallocation we need to
> accomodate this memory arrangement to free vmalloc()'ed memory correctly.
>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
[...]
> @@ -102,10 +106,20 @@ static struct bpf_map *array_map_alloc(union bpf_attr *attr)
> }
>
> array_size = sizeof(*array);
> - if (percpu)
> + if (percpu) {
> array_size += (u64) max_entries * sizeof(void *);
> - else
> - array_size += (u64) max_entries * elem_size;
> + } else {
> + /* rely on vmalloc() to return page-aligned memory and
> + * ensure array->value is exactly page-aligned
> + */
> + if (attr->map_flags & BPF_F_MMAPABLE) {
> + array_size = round_up(array_size, PAGE_SIZE);
> + array_size += (u64) max_entries * elem_size;
> + array_size = round_up(array_size, PAGE_SIZE);
> + } else {
> + array_size += (u64) max_entries * elem_size;
> + }
> + }
Thought about this chunk for a bit, assuming we don't end up with lots of
small mmap arrays it should be OK. So userspace will probably need to try and
optimize this to create as few mmaps as possible.
[...]
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
