netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] bpf: xdp: Allow head adjustment in XDP prog

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:52:30 -0800
From:   Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        "Saeed Mahameed" <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "Kernel Team" <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] bpf: xdp: Allow head adjustment in XDP
 prog

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:35:31AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 16-12-03 07:17 PM, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> > This patch allows XDP prog to extend/remove the packet
> > data at the head (like adding or removing header).  It is
> > done by adding a new XDP helper bpf_xdp_adjust_head().
> >
> > It also renames bpf_helper_changes_skb_data() to
> > bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data() to better reflect
> > that XDP prog does not work on skb.
> >
> > Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
> > ---
>
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > -bool bpf_helper_changes_skb_data(void *func)
> > +BPF_CALL_2(bpf_xdp_adjust_head, struct xdp_buff *, xdp, int, offset)
> > +{
> > +	/* Both mlx4 and mlx5 driver align each packet to PAGE_SIZE when
> > +	 * XDP prog is set.
> > +	 * If the above is not true for the other drivers to support
> > +	 * bpf_xdp_adjust_head, struct xdp_buff can be extended.
> > +	 */
> > +	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)xdp->data & PAGE_MASK;
> > +	void *data_hard_start = (void *)addr;
> > +	void *data = xdp->data + offset;
> > +
> > +	if (unlikely(data < data_hard_start || data > xdp->data_end - ETH_HLEN))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	xdp->data = data;
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
>
> Sorry for the delay but I don't like the assumptions being made here
> with regards to page alignment and free space.
>
> Instead of taking the offset from PAGE_MASK how about adding a pointer
> to xdp_buff so that we get,
>
>  struct xdp_buff {
>  	void *data;
> 	void *data_end;
> 	void *data_start;
>  };
>
> This gives the headroom explicitly in the data structure. This way we
> can handle non-paged aligned usages and also some of the drivers are
> putting metadata (descriptors) at the front of the page. With this
> patch we could stomp on that metadata with the above we avoid that
> problem altogether.
Extending the xdp_buff like this was my first local attempt.  And
then I realized the assumption that mlx4/5 is making.  Since
there is no immediate need for this patch series and the xdp_buff
can always be extended later if needed without breaking
the xdp prog, I dropped the xdp_buff addition for now in this patch.

Sure, it will be done at the next spin.