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Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi says: ==================== Enable static subprog calls in spin lock critical sections This set allows a BPF program to make a call to a static subprog within a bpf_spin_lock critical section. This problem has been hit in sched-ext and ghOSt [0] as well, and is mostly an annoyance which is worked around by inling the static subprog into the critical section. In case of sched-ext, there are a lot of other helper/kfunc calls that need to be allow listed for the support to be complete, but a separate follow up will deal with that. Unlike static subprogs, global subprogs cannot be allowed yet as the verifier will not explore their body when encountering a call instruction for them. Therefore, we would need an alternative approach (some sort of function summarization to ensure a lock is never taken from a global subprog and all its callees). [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/bd173bf2-dea6-3e0e-4176-4a9256a9a056@google.com Changelog: ---------- v1 -> v2 v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240204120206.796412-1-memxor@gmail.com * Indicate global function call in verifier error string (Yonghong, David) * Add Acks from Yonghong, David ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240204222349.938118-1-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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