Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf: Avoid unnecessary -EBUSY from htab_lock_bucket

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> On Oct 4, 2023, at 5:11 PM, Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 4, 2023, at 9:18 AM, Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 3, 2023, at 8:33 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 8:08 PM Andrii Nakryiko
>>> <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:45 PM Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> htab_lock_bucket uses the following logic to avoid recursion:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. preempt_disable();
>>>>> 2. check percpu counter htab->map_locked[hash] for recursion;
>>>>> 2.1. if map_lock[hash] is already taken, return -BUSY;
>>>>> 3. raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
>>>>> 
>>>>> However, if an IRQ hits between 2 and 3, BPF programs attached to the IRQ
>>>>> logic will not able to access the same hash of the hashtab and get -EBUSY.
>>>>> This -EBUSY is not really necessary. Fix it by disabling IRQ before
>>>>> checking map_locked:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. preempt_disable();
>>>>> 2. local_irq_save();
>>>>> 3. check percpu counter htab->map_locked[hash] for recursion;
>>>>> 3.1. if map_lock[hash] is already taken, return -BUSY;
>>>>> 4. raw_spin_lock().
>>>>> 
>>>>> Similarly, use raw_spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in
>>>>> htab_unlock_bucket().
>>>>> 
>>>>> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>>> 1. Use raw_spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in htab_unlock_bucket().
>>>>> (Andrii)
>>>>> ---
>>>>> kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 7 +++++--
>>>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Now it's more symmetrical and seems correct to me, thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> 
>>>>> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
>>>>> index a8c7e1c5abfa..fd8d4b0addfc 100644
>>>>> --- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
>>>>> +++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
>>>>> @@ -155,13 +155,15 @@ static inline int htab_lock_bucket(const struct bpf_htab *htab,
>>>>>      hash = hash & min_t(u32, HASHTAB_MAP_LOCK_MASK, htab->n_buckets - 1);
>>>>> 
>>>>>      preempt_disable();
>>>>> +       local_irq_save(flags);
>>>>>      if (unlikely(__this_cpu_inc_return(*(htab->map_locked[hash])) != 1)) {
>>>>>              __this_cpu_dec(*(htab->map_locked[hash]));
>>>>> +               local_irq_restore(flags);
>>>>>              preempt_enable();
>>>>>              return -EBUSY;
>>>>>      }
>>>>> 
>>>>> -       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&b->raw_lock, flags);
>>>>> +       raw_spin_lock(&b->raw_lock);
>>> 
>>> Song,
>>> 
>>> take a look at s390 crash in BPF CI.
>>> I suspect this patch is causing it.
>> 
>> It indeed looks like triggered by this patch. But I haven't figured
>> out why it happens. v1 seems ok for the same tests. 
> 
> I guess I finally figured out this (should be simple) bug. If I got it 
> correctly, we need:
> 
> diff --git c/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c w/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
> index fd8d4b0addfc..1cfa2329a53a 100644
> --- c/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
> +++ w/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
> @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static inline int htab_lock_bucket(const struct bpf_htab *htab,
>                __this_cpu_dec(*(htab->map_locked[hash]));
>                local_irq_restore(flags);
>                preempt_enable();
> +               *pflags = flags;
>                return -EBUSY;
>        }

No... I was totally wrong. This is not needed. 

Trying something different..

Thanks,
Song




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