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Message-ID: <CAADnVQKNtMw1JBShJsf003ogfuCF+J7_NeQcKQjgVVAM26ZDDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2023 10:41:17 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 1/3] arm64: patching: Add aarch64_insn_copy()

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:19 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>
> Hi Puranjay,
>
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 02:43:18PM +0000, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> > This will be used by BPF JIT compiler to dump JITed binary to a RX huge
> > page, and thus allow multiple BPF programs sharing the a huge (2MB)
> > page.
> >
> > The bpf_prog_pack allocator that implements the above feature allocates
> > a RX/RW buffer pair. The JITed code is written to the RW buffer and then
> > this function will be used to copy the code from RW to RX buffer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>
> > Acked-by: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h |  1 +
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c      | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
> > index 68908b82b168..f78a0409cbdb 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
> > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ int aarch64_insn_read(void *addr, u32 *insnp);
> >  int aarch64_insn_write(void *addr, u32 insn);
> >
> >  int aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64(void *addr, u64 val);
> > +void *aarch64_insn_copy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);
> >
> >  int aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(void *addr, u32 insn);
> >  int aarch64_insn_patch_text(void *addrs[], u32 insns[], int cnt);
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c
> > index b4835f6d594b..243d6ae8d2d8 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c
> > @@ -105,6 +105,47 @@ noinstr int aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64(void *addr, u64 val)
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > +/**
> > + * aarch64_insn_copy - Copy instructions into (an unused part of) RX memory
> > + * @dst: address to modify
> > + * @src: source of the copy
> > + * @len: length to copy
> > + *
> > + * Useful for JITs to dump new code blocks into unused regions of RX memory.
> > + */
> > +noinstr void *aarch64_insn_copy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned long flags;
> > +     size_t patched = 0;
> > +     size_t size;
> > +     void *waddr;
> > +     void *ptr;
> > +     int ret;
> > +
> > +     raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&patch_lock, flags);
> > +
> > +     while (patched < len) {
> > +             ptr = dst + patched;
> > +             size = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(ptr),
> > +                          len - patched);
> > +
> > +             waddr = patch_map(ptr, FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
> > +             ret = copy_to_kernel_nofault(waddr, src + patched, size);
> > +             patch_unmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
> > +
> > +             if (ret < 0) {
> > +                     raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&patch_lock, flags);
> > +                     return NULL;
> > +             }
> > +             patched += size;
> > +     }
> > +     raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&patch_lock, flags);
> > +
> > +     caches_clean_inval_pou((uintptr_t)dst, (uintptr_t)dst + len);
>
> As Xu mentioned, either this needs to use flush_icache_range() to IPI all CPUs
> in the system, or we need to make it the caller's responsibility to do that.
>
> Otherwise, I think this is functionally ok, but I'm not certain that it's good
> for BPF to be using the FIX_TEXT_POKE0 slot as that will serialize all BPF
> loading, ftrace, kprobes, etc against one another. Do we ever expect to load
> multiple BPF programs in parallel, or is that serialized at a higher level?

bpf loading is pretty much serialized by the verifier.
It's a very slow operation.

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