The dispatcher function is attached/detached to trampoline by dispatcher update function. At the same time it's available as ftrace attachable function. After discussion [1] the proposed solution is to use compiler attributes to alter bpf_dispatcher_##name##_func function: - remove it from being instrumented with __no_instrument_function__ attribute, so ftrace has no track of it - but still generate 5 nop instructions with patchable_function_entry(5) attribute, which are expected by bpf_arch_text_poke used by dispatcher update function Enabling HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE option for x86, so __patchable_function_entries functions are not part of ftrace/mcount locations. The dispatcher code is generated and attached only for x86 so it's safe to keep bpf_dispatcher func in patchable_function_entry locations for other archs. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220722110811.124515-1-jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx/ Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + include/linux/bpf.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index f9920f1341c8..089c20cefd2b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ config X86 select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS select HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP if X86_SGX imply IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI + select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE config INSTRUCTION_DECODER def_bool y diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h index 9c1674973e03..945d5414bb62 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -925,6 +925,8 @@ int arch_prepare_bpf_dispatcher(void *image, s64 *funcs, int num_funcs); } #define DEFINE_BPF_DISPATCHER(name) \ + __attribute__((__no_instrument_function__)) \ + __attribute__((patchable_function_entry(5))) \ noinline __nocfi unsigned int bpf_dispatcher_##name##_func( \ const void *ctx, \ const struct bpf_insn *insnsi, \ -- 2.37.2