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* [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf/memalloc: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill
@ 2023-07-27 20:18 YiFei Zhu
  2023-07-27 21:58 ` Yonghong Song
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: YiFei Zhu @ 2023-07-27 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bpf
  Cc: Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Stanislav Fomichev,
	Martin KaFai Lau, Andrii Nakryiko, Hou Tao

In internal testing of test_maps, we sometimes observed failures like:
  test_maps: test_maps.c:173: void test_hashmap_percpu(unsigned int, void *):
    Assertion `bpf_map_update_elem(fd, &key, value, BPF_ANY) == 0' failed.
where the errno is ENOMEM. After some troubleshooting and enabling
the warnings, we saw:
  [   91.304708] percpu: allocation failed, size=8 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left
  [   91.304716] CPU: 51 PID: 24145 Comm: test_maps Kdump: loaded Tainted: G                 N 6.1.38-smp-DEV #7
  [   91.304719] Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20230627.0-0 06/27/2023
  [   91.304721] Call Trace:
  [   91.304724]  <TASK>
  [   91.304730]  [<ffffffffa7ef83b9>] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x88
  [   91.304737]  [<ffffffffa7ef83f8>] dump_stack+0x10/0x18
  [   91.304738]  [<ffffffffa75caa0c>] pcpu_alloc+0x6fc/0x870
  [   91.304741]  [<ffffffffa75ca302>] __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
  [   91.304743]  [<ffffffffa756785e>] alloc_bulk+0xde/0x1e0
  [   91.304746]  [<ffffffffa7566c02>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0xd2/0x2f0
  [   91.304747]  [<ffffffffa7547c69>] htab_map_alloc+0x479/0x650
  [   91.304750]  [<ffffffffa751d6e0>] map_create+0x140/0x2e0
  [   91.304752]  [<ffffffffa751d413>] __sys_bpf+0x5a3/0x6c0
  [   91.304753]  [<ffffffffa751c3ec>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30
  [   91.304754]  [<ffffffffa7ef847a>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x80
  [   91.304756]  [<ffffffffa800009b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

This makes sense, because in atomic context, percpu allocation would
not create new chunks; it would only create in non-atomic contexts.
And if during prefill all precpu chunks are full, -ENOMEM would
happen immediately upon next unit_alloc.

Prefill phase does not actually run in atomic context, so we can
use this fact to allocate non-atomically with GFP_KERNEL instead
of GFP_NOWAIT. This avoids the immediate -ENOMEM.

Unfortunately unit_alloc runs in atomic context, even from map
item allocation in syscalls, due to rcu_read_lock, so we can't do
non-atomic workarounds in unit_alloc.

Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com>
---
v1->v2:
- Rebase from bpf to bpf-next
- Dropped second patch and edited commit message to include parts
  of original cover letter, and dropped Fixes tag
---
 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
index 14d9b1a9a4ca..9c49ae53deaf 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
@@ -201,12 +201,16 @@ static void add_obj_to_free_list(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, void *obj)
 }
 
 /* Mostly runs from irq_work except __init phase. */
-static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
+static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node, bool atomic)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL, *old_memcg;
+	gfp_t gfp;
 	void *obj;
 	int i;
 
+	gfp = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
+	gfp |= atomic ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_KERNEL;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
 		/*
 		 * For every 'c' llist_del_first(&c->free_by_rcu_ttrace); is
@@ -238,7 +242,7 @@ static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
 		 * will allocate from the current numa node which is what we
 		 * want here.
 		 */
-		obj = __alloc(c, node, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
+		obj = __alloc(c, node, gfp);
 		if (!obj)
 			break;
 		add_obj_to_free_list(c, obj);
@@ -429,7 +433,7 @@ static void bpf_mem_refill(struct irq_work *work)
 		/* irq_work runs on this cpu and kmalloc will allocate
 		 * from the current numa node which is what we want here.
 		 */
-		alloc_bulk(c, c->batch, NUMA_NO_NODE);
+		alloc_bulk(c, c->batch, NUMA_NO_NODE, true);
 	else if (cnt > c->high_watermark)
 		free_bulk(c);
 
@@ -477,7 +481,7 @@ static void prefill_mem_cache(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cpu)
 	 * prog won't be doing more than 4 map_update_elem from
 	 * irq disabled region
 	 */
-	alloc_bulk(c, c->unit_size <= 256 ? 4 : 1, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+	alloc_bulk(c, c->unit_size <= 256 ? 4 : 1, cpu_to_node(cpu), false);
 }
 
 /* When size != 0 bpf_mem_cache for each cpu.
-- 
2.41.0.585.gd2178a4bd4-goog


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* Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf/memalloc: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill
  2023-07-27 20:18 [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf/memalloc: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill YiFei Zhu
@ 2023-07-27 21:58 ` Yonghong Song
  2023-07-27 23:46   ` YiFei Zhu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Yonghong Song @ 2023-07-27 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: YiFei Zhu, bpf
  Cc: Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Stanislav Fomichev,
	Martin KaFai Lau, Andrii Nakryiko, Hou Tao



On 7/27/23 1:18 PM, YiFei Zhu wrote:
> In internal testing of test_maps, we sometimes observed failures like:
>    test_maps: test_maps.c:173: void test_hashmap_percpu(unsigned int, void *):
>      Assertion `bpf_map_update_elem(fd, &key, value, BPF_ANY) == 0' failed.
> where the errno is ENOMEM. After some troubleshooting and enabling
> the warnings, we saw:
>    [   91.304708] percpu: allocation failed, size=8 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left
>    [   91.304716] CPU: 51 PID: 24145 Comm: test_maps Kdump: loaded Tainted: G                 N 6.1.38-smp-DEV #7
>    [   91.304719] Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20230627.0-0 06/27/2023
>    [   91.304721] Call Trace:
>    [   91.304724]  <TASK>
>    [   91.304730]  [<ffffffffa7ef83b9>] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x88
>    [   91.304737]  [<ffffffffa7ef83f8>] dump_stack+0x10/0x18
>    [   91.304738]  [<ffffffffa75caa0c>] pcpu_alloc+0x6fc/0x870
>    [   91.304741]  [<ffffffffa75ca302>] __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
>    [   91.304743]  [<ffffffffa756785e>] alloc_bulk+0xde/0x1e0
>    [   91.304746]  [<ffffffffa7566c02>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0xd2/0x2f0
>    [   91.304747]  [<ffffffffa7547c69>] htab_map_alloc+0x479/0x650
>    [   91.304750]  [<ffffffffa751d6e0>] map_create+0x140/0x2e0
>    [   91.304752]  [<ffffffffa751d413>] __sys_bpf+0x5a3/0x6c0
>    [   91.304753]  [<ffffffffa751c3ec>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30
>    [   91.304754]  [<ffffffffa7ef847a>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x80
>    [   91.304756]  [<ffffffffa800009b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> 
> This makes sense, because in atomic context, percpu allocation would
> not create new chunks; it would only create in non-atomic contexts.
> And if during prefill all precpu chunks are full, -ENOMEM would
> happen immediately upon next unit_alloc.
> 
> Prefill phase does not actually run in atomic context, so we can
> use this fact to allocate non-atomically with GFP_KERNEL instead
> of GFP_NOWAIT. This avoids the immediate -ENOMEM.
> 
> Unfortunately unit_alloc runs in atomic context, even from map
> item allocation in syscalls, due to rcu_read_lock, so we can't do
> non-atomic workarounds in unit_alloc.

The above description is not clear to me. Do you mean
   GFP_NOWAIT has to be used in unit_alloc when bpf program runs
   in atomic context. Even if bpf program runs in non-atomic context,
   in most cases, rcu read lock is enabled for the program so
   GFP_NOWAIT is still needed.

The exception is sleepable bpf program in non-atomic context,
e.g., sleepable bpf_iter program, sleepable fentry program
in non-atomic context, and the unit_alloc is not inside
bpf_rcu_read_lock kfunc. But this is too complicated and
probably not worthwhile to special-case it.

> 
> Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

> ---
> v1->v2:
> - Rebase from bpf to bpf-next
> - Dropped second patch and edited commit message to include parts
>    of original cover letter, and dropped Fixes tag
> ---
>   kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 12 ++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
> index 14d9b1a9a4ca..9c49ae53deaf 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
> @@ -201,12 +201,16 @@ static void add_obj_to_free_list(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, void *obj)
>   }
>   
>   /* Mostly runs from irq_work except __init phase. */
> -static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
> +static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node, bool atomic)
>   {
>   	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL, *old_memcg;
> +	gfp_t gfp;
>   	void *obj;
>   	int i;
>   
> +	gfp = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
> +	gfp |= atomic ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_KERNEL;
> +
>   	for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
>   		/*
>   		 * For every 'c' llist_del_first(&c->free_by_rcu_ttrace); is
> @@ -238,7 +242,7 @@ static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
>   		 * will allocate from the current numa node which is what we
>   		 * want here.
>   		 */
> -		obj = __alloc(c, node, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
> +		obj = __alloc(c, node, gfp);
>   		if (!obj)
>   			break;
>   		add_obj_to_free_list(c, obj);
> @@ -429,7 +433,7 @@ static void bpf_mem_refill(struct irq_work *work)
>   		/* irq_work runs on this cpu and kmalloc will allocate
>   		 * from the current numa node which is what we want here.
>   		 */
> -		alloc_bulk(c, c->batch, NUMA_NO_NODE);
> +		alloc_bulk(c, c->batch, NUMA_NO_NODE, true);
>   	else if (cnt > c->high_watermark)
>   		free_bulk(c);
>   
> @@ -477,7 +481,7 @@ static void prefill_mem_cache(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cpu)
>   	 * prog won't be doing more than 4 map_update_elem from
>   	 * irq disabled region
>   	 */
> -	alloc_bulk(c, c->unit_size <= 256 ? 4 : 1, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> +	alloc_bulk(c, c->unit_size <= 256 ? 4 : 1, cpu_to_node(cpu), false);
>   }
>   
>   /* When size != 0 bpf_mem_cache for each cpu.

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* Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf/memalloc: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill
  2023-07-27 21:58 ` Yonghong Song
@ 2023-07-27 23:46   ` YiFei Zhu
  2023-07-28  4:06     ` Yonghong Song
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: YiFei Zhu @ 2023-07-27 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: yonghong.song
  Cc: bpf, Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Stanislav Fomichev,
	Martin KaFai Lau, Andrii Nakryiko, Hou Tao

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 2:59 PM Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 7/27/23 1:18 PM, YiFei Zhu wrote:
> > In internal testing of test_maps, we sometimes observed failures like:
> >    test_maps: test_maps.c:173: void test_hashmap_percpu(unsigned int, void *):
> >      Assertion `bpf_map_update_elem(fd, &key, value, BPF_ANY) == 0' failed.
> > where the errno is ENOMEM. After some troubleshooting and enabling
> > the warnings, we saw:
> >    [   91.304708] percpu: allocation failed, size=8 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left
> >    [   91.304716] CPU: 51 PID: 24145 Comm: test_maps Kdump: loaded Tainted: G                 N 6.1.38-smp-DEV #7
> >    [   91.304719] Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20230627.0-0 06/27/2023
> >    [   91.304721] Call Trace:
> >    [   91.304724]  <TASK>
> >    [   91.304730]  [<ffffffffa7ef83b9>] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x88
> >    [   91.304737]  [<ffffffffa7ef83f8>] dump_stack+0x10/0x18
> >    [   91.304738]  [<ffffffffa75caa0c>] pcpu_alloc+0x6fc/0x870
> >    [   91.304741]  [<ffffffffa75ca302>] __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
> >    [   91.304743]  [<ffffffffa756785e>] alloc_bulk+0xde/0x1e0
> >    [   91.304746]  [<ffffffffa7566c02>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0xd2/0x2f0
> >    [   91.304747]  [<ffffffffa7547c69>] htab_map_alloc+0x479/0x650
> >    [   91.304750]  [<ffffffffa751d6e0>] map_create+0x140/0x2e0
> >    [   91.304752]  [<ffffffffa751d413>] __sys_bpf+0x5a3/0x6c0
> >    [   91.304753]  [<ffffffffa751c3ec>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30
> >    [   91.304754]  [<ffffffffa7ef847a>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x80
> >    [   91.304756]  [<ffffffffa800009b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> >
> > This makes sense, because in atomic context, percpu allocation would
> > not create new chunks; it would only create in non-atomic contexts.
> > And if during prefill all precpu chunks are full, -ENOMEM would
> > happen immediately upon next unit_alloc.
> >
> > Prefill phase does not actually run in atomic context, so we can
> > use this fact to allocate non-atomically with GFP_KERNEL instead
> > of GFP_NOWAIT. This avoids the immediate -ENOMEM.
> >
> > Unfortunately unit_alloc runs in atomic context, even from map
> > item allocation in syscalls, due to rcu_read_lock, so we can't do
> > non-atomic workarounds in unit_alloc.
>
> The above description is not clear to me. Do you mean
>    GFP_NOWAIT has to be used in unit_alloc when bpf program runs
>    in atomic context. Even if bpf program runs in non-atomic context,
>    in most cases, rcu read lock is enabled for the program so
>    GFP_NOWAIT is still needed.

I actually meant that in syscall BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM, at least in the
case of hashmap_percpu the code path is rcu read locked, so one cannot
do non-atomic allocations even from syscalls. Hmm, shall I I change it
to something like this?

   GFP_NOWAIT has to be used in unit_alloc when bpf program runs
   in atomic context. Even if bpf program runs in non-atomic context,
   in most cases, rcu read lock is enabled for the program so
   GFP_NOWAIT is still needed. This is often also the case for
   BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM syscalls.

> The exception is sleepable bpf program in non-atomic context,
> e.g., sleepable bpf_iter program, sleepable fentry program
> in non-atomic context, and the unit_alloc is not inside
> bpf_rcu_read_lock kfunc. But this is too complicated and
> probably not worthwhile to special-case it.

Ack.

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
>
> > ---
> > v1->v2:
> > - Rebase from bpf to bpf-next
> > - Dropped second patch and edited commit message to include parts
> >    of original cover letter, and dropped Fixes tag
> > ---
> >   kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 12 ++++++++----
> >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
> > index 14d9b1a9a4ca..9c49ae53deaf 100644
> > --- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
> > +++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
> > @@ -201,12 +201,16 @@ static void add_obj_to_free_list(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, void *obj)
> >   }
> >
> >   /* Mostly runs from irq_work except __init phase. */
> > -static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
> > +static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node, bool atomic)
> >   {
> >       struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL, *old_memcg;
> > +     gfp_t gfp;
> >       void *obj;
> >       int i;
> >
> > +     gfp = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
> > +     gfp |= atomic ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_KERNEL;
> > +
> >       for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> >               /*
> >                * For every 'c' llist_del_first(&c->free_by_rcu_ttrace); is
> > @@ -238,7 +242,7 @@ static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
> >                * will allocate from the current numa node which is what we
> >                * want here.
> >                */
> > -             obj = __alloc(c, node, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
> > +             obj = __alloc(c, node, gfp);
> >               if (!obj)
> >                       break;
> >               add_obj_to_free_list(c, obj);
> > @@ -429,7 +433,7 @@ static void bpf_mem_refill(struct irq_work *work)
> >               /* irq_work runs on this cpu and kmalloc will allocate
> >                * from the current numa node which is what we want here.
> >                */
> > -             alloc_bulk(c, c->batch, NUMA_NO_NODE);
> > +             alloc_bulk(c, c->batch, NUMA_NO_NODE, true);
> >       else if (cnt > c->high_watermark)
> >               free_bulk(c);
> >
> > @@ -477,7 +481,7 @@ static void prefill_mem_cache(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cpu)
> >        * prog won't be doing more than 4 map_update_elem from
> >        * irq disabled region
> >        */
> > -     alloc_bulk(c, c->unit_size <= 256 ? 4 : 1, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> > +     alloc_bulk(c, c->unit_size <= 256 ? 4 : 1, cpu_to_node(cpu), false);
> >   }
> >
> >   /* When size != 0 bpf_mem_cache for each cpu.

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* Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf/memalloc: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill
  2023-07-27 23:46   ` YiFei Zhu
@ 2023-07-28  4:06     ` Yonghong Song
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Yonghong Song @ 2023-07-28  4:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: YiFei Zhu
  Cc: bpf, Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Stanislav Fomichev,
	Martin KaFai Lau, Andrii Nakryiko, Hou Tao



On 7/27/23 4:46 PM, YiFei Zhu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 2:59 PM Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/27/23 1:18 PM, YiFei Zhu wrote:
>>> In internal testing of test_maps, we sometimes observed failures like:
>>>     test_maps: test_maps.c:173: void test_hashmap_percpu(unsigned int, void *):
>>>       Assertion `bpf_map_update_elem(fd, &key, value, BPF_ANY) == 0' failed.
>>> where the errno is ENOMEM. After some troubleshooting and enabling
>>> the warnings, we saw:
>>>     [   91.304708] percpu: allocation failed, size=8 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left
>>>     [   91.304716] CPU: 51 PID: 24145 Comm: test_maps Kdump: loaded Tainted: G                 N 6.1.38-smp-DEV #7
>>>     [   91.304719] Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20230627.0-0 06/27/2023
>>>     [   91.304721] Call Trace:
>>>     [   91.304724]  <TASK>
>>>     [   91.304730]  [<ffffffffa7ef83b9>] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x88
>>>     [   91.304737]  [<ffffffffa7ef83f8>] dump_stack+0x10/0x18
>>>     [   91.304738]  [<ffffffffa75caa0c>] pcpu_alloc+0x6fc/0x870
>>>     [   91.304741]  [<ffffffffa75ca302>] __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
>>>     [   91.304743]  [<ffffffffa756785e>] alloc_bulk+0xde/0x1e0
>>>     [   91.304746]  [<ffffffffa7566c02>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0xd2/0x2f0
>>>     [   91.304747]  [<ffffffffa7547c69>] htab_map_alloc+0x479/0x650
>>>     [   91.304750]  [<ffffffffa751d6e0>] map_create+0x140/0x2e0
>>>     [   91.304752]  [<ffffffffa751d413>] __sys_bpf+0x5a3/0x6c0
>>>     [   91.304753]  [<ffffffffa751c3ec>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30
>>>     [   91.304754]  [<ffffffffa7ef847a>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x80
>>>     [   91.304756]  [<ffffffffa800009b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>>>
>>> This makes sense, because in atomic context, percpu allocation would
>>> not create new chunks; it would only create in non-atomic contexts.
>>> And if during prefill all precpu chunks are full, -ENOMEM would
>>> happen immediately upon next unit_alloc.
>>>
>>> Prefill phase does not actually run in atomic context, so we can
>>> use this fact to allocate non-atomically with GFP_KERNEL instead
>>> of GFP_NOWAIT. This avoids the immediate -ENOMEM.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately unit_alloc runs in atomic context, even from map
>>> item allocation in syscalls, due to rcu_read_lock, so we can't do
>>> non-atomic workarounds in unit_alloc.
>>
>> The above description is not clear to me. Do you mean
>>     GFP_NOWAIT has to be used in unit_alloc when bpf program runs
>>     in atomic context. Even if bpf program runs in non-atomic context,
>>     in most cases, rcu read lock is enabled for the program so
>>     GFP_NOWAIT is still needed.
> 
> I actually meant that in syscall BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM, at least in the
> case of hashmap_percpu the code path is rcu read locked, so one cannot
> do non-atomic allocations even from syscalls. Hmm, shall I I change it

Indeed, some syscall triggered operation also has rcu enabled for map
operations.

> to something like this?
> 
>     GFP_NOWAIT has to be used in unit_alloc when bpf program runs
>     in atomic context. Even if bpf program runs in non-atomic context,
>     in most cases, rcu read lock is enabled for the program so
>     GFP_NOWAIT is still needed. This is often also the case for
>     BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM syscalls.

LGTM. Thanks.


> 
>> The exception is sleepable bpf program in non-atomic context,
>> e.g., sleepable bpf_iter program, sleepable fentry program
>> in non-atomic context, and the unit_alloc is not inside
>> bpf_rcu_read_lock kfunc. But this is too complicated and
>> probably not worthwhile to special-case it.
> 
> Ack.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com>
>> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
>>
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