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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:10:51 +0100
From: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>
To: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC bpf-next 0/9] allow HID-BPF to do device IOs

On Feb 13 2024, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 18:46, Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 12 2024, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 10:21 AM Benjamin Tissoires
> > > <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 6:46 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com> writes:
> > > > >
> > [...]
> > > I agree that workqueue delegation fits into the bpf_timer concept and
> > > a lot of code can and should be shared.
> >
> > Thanks Alexei for the detailed answer. I've given it an attempt but still can not
> > figure it out entirely.
> >
> > > All the lessons(bugs) learned with bpf_timer don't need to be re-discovered :)
> > > Too bad, bpf_timer_set_callback() doesn't have a flag argument,
> > > so we need a new kfunc to set a sleepable callback.
> > > Maybe
> > > bpf_timer_set_sleepable_cb() ?
> >
> > OK. So I guess I should drop Toke's suggestion with the bpf_timer_ini() flag?
> >
> > > The verifier will set is_async_cb = true for it (like it does for regular cb-s).
> > > And since prog->aux->sleepable is kinda "global" we need another
> > > per subprog flag:
> > > bool is_sleepable: 1;
> >
> > done (in push_callback_call())
> >
> > >
> > > We can factor out a check "if (prog->aux->sleepable)" into a helper
> > > that will check that "global" flag and another env->cur_state->in_sleepable
> > > flag that will work similar to active_rcu_lock.
> >
> > done (I think), cf patch 2 below
> >
> > > Once the verifier starts processing subprog->is_sleepable
> > > it will set cur_state->in_sleepable = true;
> > > to make all subprogs called from that cb to be recognized as sleepable too.
> >
> > That's the point I don't know where to put the new code.
> >
> 
> I think that would go in the already existing special case for
> push_async_cb where you get the verifier state of the async callback.
> You can make setting the boolean in that verifier state conditional on
> whether it's your kfunc/helper you're processing taking a sleepable
> callback.

Hehe, thanks a lot. Indeed, it was a simple fix. I tried to put this
everywhere but here, and with your help got it working in 2 mins :)

> 
> > It seems the best place would be in do_check(), but I am under the impression
> > that the code of the callback is added at the end of the instruction list, meaning
> > that I do not know where it starts, and which subprog index it corresponds to.
> >
> > >
> > > A bit of a challenge is what to do with global subprogs,
> > > since they're verified lazily. They can be called from
> > > sleepable and non-sleepable contex. Should be solvable.
> >
> > I must confess this is way over me (and given that I didn't even managed to make
> > the "easy" case working, that might explain things a little :-P )
> >
> 
> I think it will be solvable but made somewhat difficult by the fact
> that even if we mark subprog_info of some global_func A as
> in_sleepable, so that we explore it as sleepable during its
> verification, we might encounter later another global_func that calls
> a global func, already explored as non-sleepable, in sleepable
> context. In this case I think we need to redo the verification of that
> global func as sleepable once again. It could be that it is called
> from both non-sleepable and sleepable contexts, so both paths
> (in_sleepable = true, and in_sleepable = false) need to be explored,
> or we could reject such cases, but it might be a little restrictive.
> 
> Some common helper global func unrelated to caller context doing some
> auxiliary work, called from sleepable timer callback and normal main
> subprog might be an example where rejection will be prohibitive.
> 
> An approach might be to explore main and global subprogs once as we do
> now, and then keep a list of global subprogs that need to be revisited
> as in_sleepable (due to being called from a sleepable context) and
> trigger do_check_common for them again, this might have to be repeated
> as the list grows on each iteration, but eventually we will have
> explored all of them as in_sleepable if need be, and the loop will
> end. Surely, this trades off logical simplicity of verifier code with
> redoing verification of global subprogs again.
> 
> To add items to such a list, for each global subprog we encounter that
> needs to be analyzed as in_sleepable, we will also collect all its
> callee global subprogs by walking its instructions (a bit like
> check_max_stack_depth does).

FWIW, this (or Alexei's suggestion) is still not implemented in v2

> 
> > >
> > > Overall I think this feature is needed urgently,
> > > so if you don't have cycles to work on this soon,
> > > I can prioritize it right after bpf_arena work.
> >
> > I can try to spare a few cycles on it. Even if your instructions were on
> > spot, I still can't make the subprogs recognized as sleepable.
> >
> > For reference, this is where I am (probably bogus, but seems to be
> > working when timer_set_sleepable_cb() is called from a sleepable context
> > as mentioned by Toke):
> >
> 
> I just skimmed the patch but I think it's already 90% there. The only
> other change I would suggest is switching from helper to kfunc, as
> originally proposed by Alexei.

the kfunc was a rabbit hole:
- I needed to teach the verifier about BPF_TIMER in kfunc
- I needed to teach the verifier about the kfunc itself
- I'm failing at calling the callback :(

Anyway, I'm about to send a second RFC so we can discuss on the code and
see where my monkey patching capabilities are reaching their limits.

Cheers,
Benjamin

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