bpf: Non-atomically allocate freelist during prefill
In internal testing of test_maps, we sometimes observed failures like: test_maps: test_maps.c:173: void test_hashmap_percpu(unsigned int, void *): Assertion `bpf_map_update_elem(fd, &key, value, BPF_ANY) == 0' failed. where the errno is ENOMEM. After some troubleshooting and enabling the warnings, we saw: [ 91.304708] percpu: allocation failed, size=8 align=8 atomic=1, atomic alloc failed, no space left [ 91.304716] CPU: 51 PID: 24145 Comm: test_maps Kdump: loaded Tainted: G N 6.1.38-smp-DEV #7 [ 91.304719] Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20230627.0-0 06/27/2023 [ 91.304721] Call Trace: [ 91.304724] <TASK> [ 91.304730] [<ffffffffa7ef83b9>] dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x88 [ 91.304737] [<ffffffffa7ef83f8>] dump_stack+0x10/0x18 [ 91.304738] [<ffffffffa75caa0c>] pcpu_alloc+0x6fc/0x870 [ 91.304741] [<ffffffffa75ca302>] __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20 [ 91.304743] [<ffffffffa756785e>] alloc_bulk+0xde/0x1e0 [ 91.304746] [<ffffffffa7566c02>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0xd2/0x2f0 [ 91.304747] [<ffffffffa7547c69>] htab_map_alloc+0x479/0x650 [ 91.304750] [<ffffffffa751d6e0>] map_create+0x140/0x2e0 [ 91.304752] [<ffffffffa751d413>] __sys_bpf+0x5a3/0x6c0 [ 91.304753] [<ffffffffa751c3ec>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30 [ 91.304754] [<ffffffffa7ef847a>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x80 [ 91.304756] [<ffffffffa800009b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This makes sense, because in atomic context, percpu allocation would not create new chunks; it would only create in non-atomic contexts. And if during prefill all precpu chunks are full, -ENOMEM would happen immediately upon next unit_alloc. Prefill phase does not actually run in atomic context, so we can use this fact to allocate non-atomically with GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOWAIT. This avoids the immediate -ENOMEM. GFP_NOWAIT has to be used in unit_alloc when bpf program runs in atomic context. Even if bpf program runs in non-atomic context, in most cases, rcu read lock is enabled for the program so GFP_NOWAIT is still needed. This is often also the case for BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM syscalls. Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230728043359.3324347-1-zhuyifei@google.comSigned-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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