The main motivation for private stack comes from nested scheduler in
sched-ext from Tejun. The basic idea is that
- each cgroup will its own associated bpf program,
- bpf program with parent cgroup will call bpf programs
in immediate child cgroups.
Let us say we have the following cgroup hierarchy:
root_cg (prog0):
cg1 (prog1):
cg11 (prog11):
cg111 (prog111)
cg112 (prog112)
cg12 (prog12):
cg121 (prog121)
cg122 (prog122)
cg2 (prog2):
cg21 (prog21)
cg22 (prog22)
cg23 (prog23)
In the above example, prog0 will call a kfunc which will call prog1 and
prog2 to get sched info for cg1 and cg2 and then the information is
summarized and sent back to prog0. Similarly, prog11 and prog12 will be
invoked in the kfunc and the result will be summarized and sent back to
prog1, etc. The following illustrates a possible call sequence:
... -> bpf prog A -> kfunc -> ops.<callback_fn> (bpf prog B) ...
Currently, for each thread, the x86 kernel allocate 16KB stack. Each
bpf program (including its subprograms) has maximum 512B stack size to
avoid potential stack overflow. Nested bpf programs further increase the
risk of stack overflow. To avoid potential stack overflow caused by bpf
programs, this patch set supported private stack and bpf program stack
space is allocated during verification time. Using private stack for
bpf progs can reduce or avoid potential kernel stack overflow.
Currently private stack is applied to tracing programs like kprobe/uprobe,
perf_event, tracepoint, raw tracepoint and struct_ops progs.
Tracing progs enable private stack if any subprog stack size is more
than a threshold (i.e. 64B). Struct-ops progs enable private stack
based on particular struct op implementation which can enable private
stack before verification at per-insn level.
For all these progs, the kernel will do recursion check (no nesting for
per prog per cpu) to ensure that private stack won't be overwritten.
The bpf_prog_aux struct has a callback func recursion_detected() which
can be implemented by kernel subsystem to synchronously detect recursion,
report error, etc.
Only x86_64 arch supports private stack now. It can be extended to other
archs later. Please see each individual patch for details.
Change logs:
v8 -> v9:
- v8 link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241101030950.2677215-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/
- Use enum to express priv stack mode.
- Use bits in bpf_subprog_info struct to do subprog recursion check between
main/async and async subprogs.
- Fix potential memory leak.
- Rename recursion detection func from recursion_skipped() to recursion_detected().
v7 -> v8:
- v7 link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241029221637.264348-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/
- Add recursion_skipped() callback func to bpf_prog->aux structure such that if
a recursion miss happened and bpf_prog->aux->recursion_skipped is not NULL, the
callback fn will be called so the subsystem can do proper action based on their
respective design.
v6 -> v7:
- v6 link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241020191341.2104841-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/
- Going back to do private stack allocation per prog instead per subtree. This can
simplify implementation and avoid verifier complexity.
- Handle potential nested subprog run if async callback exists.
- Use struct_ops->check_member() callback to set whether a particular struct-ops
prog wants private stack or not.
v5 -> v6:
- v5 link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017223138.3175885-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/
- Instead of using (or not using) private stack at struct_ops level,
each prog in struct_ops can decide whether to use private stack or not.
v4 -> v5:
- v4 link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241010175552.1895980-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/
- Remove bpf_prog_call() related implementation.
- Allow (opt-in) private stack for sched-ext progs.
v3 -> v4:
- v3 link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240926234506.1769256-1-yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx/
There is a long discussion in the above v3 link trying to allow private
stack to be used by kernel functions in order to simplify implementation.
But unfortunately we didn't find a workable solution yet, so we return
to the approach where private stack is only used by bpf programs.
- Add bpf_prog_call() kfunc.
v2 -> v3:
- Instead of per-subprog private stack allocation, allocate private
stacks at main prog or callback entry prog. Subprogs not main or callback
progs will increment the inherited stack pointer to be their
frame pointer.
- Private stack allows each prog max stack size to be 512 bytes, intead
of the whole prog hierarchy to be 512 bytes.
- Add some tests.
Yonghong Song (10):
bpf: Check stack depth limit after visiting all subprogs
bpf: Return false for bpf_prog_check_recur() default case
bpf: Allow private stack to have each subprog having stack size of 512
bytes
bpf: Check potential private stack recursion for progs with async
callback
bpf: Allocate private stack for eligible main prog or subprogs
bpf, x86: Avoid repeated usage of bpf_prog->aux->stack_depth
bpf, x86: Support private stack in jit
selftests/bpf: Add tracing prog private stack tests
bpf: Support private stack for struct_ops progs
selftests/bpf: Add struct_ops prog private stack tests
arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 73 ++++-
include/linux/bpf.h | 3 +
include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 7 +-
include/linux/filter.h | 1 +
kernel/bpf/core.c | 24 +-
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c | 4 +
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 150 +++++++++-
.../selftests/bpf/bpf_testmod/bpf_testmod.c | 104 +++++++
.../selftests/bpf/bpf_testmod/bpf_testmod.h | 5 +
.../bpf/prog_tests/struct_ops_private_stack.c | 106 +++++++
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verifier.c | 2 +
.../bpf/progs/struct_ops_private_stack.c | 62 ++++
.../bpf/progs/struct_ops_private_stack_fail.c | 62 ++++
.../progs/struct_ops_private_stack_recur.c | 50 ++++
.../bpf/progs/verifier_private_stack.c | 272 ++++++++++++++++++
15 files changed, 906 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/struct_ops_private_stack.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/struct_ops_private_stack.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/struct_ops_private_stack_fail.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/struct_ops_private_stack_recur.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_private_stack.c
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