On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:56 AM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 9/15/20 10:40 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:35:50 -0700 Yonghong Song wrote:
> >> On 9/15/20 8:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:46:30 -0700 Yonghong Song wrote:
> >>>> Currently, we use bucket_lock when traversing bpf_sk_storage_map
> >>>> elements. Since bpf_iter programs cannot use bpf_sk_storage_get()
> >>>> and bpf_sk_storage_delete() helpers which may also grab bucket lock,
> >>>> we do not have a deadlock issue which exists for hashmap when
> >>>> using bucket_lock ([1]).
> >>>>
> >>>> If a bucket contains a lot of sockets, during bpf_iter traversing
> >>>> a bucket, concurrent bpf_sk_storage_{get,delete}() may experience
> >>>> some undesirable delays. Using rcu_read_lock() is a reasonable
> >>>> compromise here. Although it may lose some precision, e.g.,
> >>>> access stale sockets, but it will not hurt performance of other
> >>>> bpf programs.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200902235341.2001534-1-yhs@xxxxxx
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Sparse is not happy about it. Could you add some annotations, perhaps?
> >>>
> >>> include/linux/rcupdate.h:686:9: warning: context imbalance in 'bpf_sk_storage_map_seq_find_next' - unexpected unlock
> >>> include/linux/rcupdate.h:686:9: warning: context imbalance in 'bpf_sk_storage_map_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock
> >>
> >> Okay, I will try.
> >>
> >> On my system, sparse is unhappy and core dumped....
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> >> /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/include/linux/string.h:12:38: error: too
> >> many errors
> >> /bin/sh: line 1: 2710132 Segmentation fault (core dumped) sparse
> >> -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix
> >> -D__unix__ -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void -Wno-unknown-attribute
> >> -D__x86_64__ --arch=x86 -mlittle-endian -m64 -W
> >> p,-MMD,net/core/.bpf_sk_storage.o.d -nostdinc -isystem
> >> ...
> >> /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/net/core/bpf_sk_storage.c
> >> make[3]: *** [net/core/bpf_sk_storage.o] Error 139
> >> make[3]: *** Deleting file `net/core/bpf_sk_storage.o'
> >>
> >> -bash-4.4$ rpm -qf /bin/sparse
> >> sparse-0.5.2-1.el7.x86_64
> >> -bash-4.4$
> >
> > I think you need to build from source, sadly :(
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> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm//devel/sparse/sparse.git
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> Indeed, building sparse from source works. After adding some
> __releases(RCU) and __acquires(RCU), I now have:
> context imbalance in 'bpf_sk_storage_map_seq_find_next' - different
> lock contexts for basic block
> I may need to restructure code to please sparse...
I don't think sparse can handle such things even with all annotations.
I would spend too much time on it.
