linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC bpf-next v3 04/16] bpf/helpers: introduce sleepable bpf

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Message-ID: <818e43447651af1a659993897c14d05fec5038e4.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:40:23 +0200
From: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>
To: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov
 <ast@...nel.org>,  Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, John Fastabend
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC bpf-next v3 04/16] bpf/helpers: introduce sleepable
 bpf_timers

On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 17:25 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

[...]

> @@ -1282,7 +1333,7 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_timer_start, struct bpf_timer_kern *, timer, u64, nsecs, u64, fla
>  
>  	if (in_nmi())
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -	if (flags & ~(BPF_F_TIMER_ABS | BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN))
> +	if (flags & ~(BPF_F_TIMER_ABS | BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN | BPF_F_TIMER_SLEEPABLE))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	__bpf_spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock);
>  	t = timer->timer;
> @@ -1299,7 +1350,10 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_timer_start, struct bpf_timer_kern *, timer, u64, nsecs, u64, fla
>  	if (flags & BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN)
>  		mode |= HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED;
>  
> -	hrtimer_start(&t->timer, ns_to_ktime(nsecs), mode);
> +	if (flags & BPF_F_TIMER_SLEEPABLE)
> +		schedule_work(&t->work);
> +	else
> +		hrtimer_start(&t->timer, ns_to_ktime(nsecs), mode);

It looks like nsecs is simply ignored for sleepable timers.
Should this be hrtimer_start() that waits nsecs and schedules work,
or schedule_delayed_work()? (but it takes delay in jiffies, which is
probably too coarse). Sorry if I miss something.