netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 03/30] bpf: memcg-based memory accounting for bpf maps

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Message-ID: <20200826023802.GA2490802@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:38:02 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 03/30] bpf: memcg-based memory accounting for
 bpf maps

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:27:09PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 8:01 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch enables memcg-based memory accounting for memory allocated
> > by __bpf_map_area_alloc(), which is used by most map types for
> > large allocations.
> >
> > If a map is updated from an interrupt context, and the update
> > results in memory allocation, the memory cgroup can't be determined
> > from the context of the current process. To address this case,
> > bpf map preserves a pointer to the memory cgroup of the process,
> > which created the map. This memory cgroup is charged for allocations
> > from interrupt context.
> >
> > Following patches in the series will refine the accounting for
> > some map types.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/bpf.h  |  4 ++++
> >  kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
> > index a9b7185a6b37..b5f178afde94 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/bpf.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
> > @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct btf_type;
> >  struct exception_table_entry;
> >  struct seq_operations;
> >  struct bpf_iter_aux_info;
> > +struct mem_cgroup;
> >
> >  extern struct idr btf_idr;
> >  extern spinlock_t btf_idr_lock;
> > @@ -138,6 +139,9 @@ struct bpf_map {
> >         u32 btf_value_type_id;
> >         struct btf *btf;
> >         struct bpf_map_memory memory;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
> > +       struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> > +#endif
> >         char name[BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN];
> >         u32 btf_vmlinux_value_type_id;
> >         bool bypass_spec_v1;
> > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
> > index be43ab3e619f..f8ce7bc7003f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
> > +++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
> > @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/jiffies.h>
> >  #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
> >  #include <linux/proc_ns.h>
> > +#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
> >
> >  #include "../../lib/kstrtox.h"
> >
> > @@ -41,11 +42,45 @@ const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_map_lookup_elem_proto = {
> >         .arg2_type      = ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_KEY,
> >  };
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
> > +static __always_inline int __bpf_map_update_elem(struct bpf_map *map, void *key,
> > +                                                void *value, u64 flags)
> > +{
> > +       struct mem_cgroup *old_memcg;
> > +       bool in_interrupt;
> > +       int ret;
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * If update from an interrupt context results in a memory allocation,
> > +        * the memory cgroup to charge can't be determined from the context
> > +        * of the current task. Instead, we charge the memory cgroup, which
> > +        * contained a process created the map.
> > +        */
> > +       in_interrupt = in_interrupt();
> > +       if (in_interrupt)
> > +               old_memcg = memalloc_use_memcg(map->memcg);
> > +
> 
> The memcg_kmem_bypass() will bypass all __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations even
> before looking at current->active_memcg, so, this patch will be a
> noop.

Good point. Looks like it's a good example of kmem accounting from an interrupt
context, which we've discussed on the Plumbers session.

It means we need some more work on the mm side.

Thanks!