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If a socket has sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem flagged, the socket opts out
of the global protocol memory accounting.
This is easily controlled by net.core.bypass_prot_mem sysctl, but it
lacks flexibility.
Let's support flagging (and clearing) sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem via
bpf_setsockopt() at the BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE hook.
int val = 1;
bpf_setsockopt(ctx, SOL_SOCKET, SK_BPF_BYPASS_PROT_MEM,
&val, sizeof(val));
As with net.core.bypass_prot_mem, this is inherited to child sockets,
and BPF always takes precedence over sysctl at socket(2) and accept(2).
SK_BPF_BYPASS_PROT_MEM is only supported at BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE
and not supported on other hooks for some reasons:
1. UDP charges memory under sk->sk_receive_queue.lock instead
of lock_sock()
2. Modifying the flag after skb is charged to sk requires such
adjustment during bpf_setsockopt() and complicates the logic
unnecessarily
We can support other hooks later if a real use case justifies that.
Most changes are inline and hard to trace, but a microbenchmark on
__sk_mem_raise_allocated() during neper/tcp_stream showed that more
samples completed faster with sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem == 1. This will
be more visible under tcp_mem pressure (but it's not a fair comparison).
# bpftrace -e 'kprobe:__sk_mem_raise_allocated { @start[tid] = nsecs; }
kretprobe:__sk_mem_raise_allocated /@start[tid]/
{ @end[tid] = nsecs - @start[tid]; @times = hist(@end[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'
# tcp_stream -6 -F 1000 -N -T 256
Without bpf prog:
[128, 256) 3846 | |
[256, 512) 1505326 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[512, 1K) 1371006 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[1K, 2K) 198207 |@@@@@@ |
[2K, 4K) 31199 |@ |
With bpf prog in the next patch:
(must be attached before tcp_stream)
# bpftool prog load sk_bypass_prot_mem.bpf.o /sys/fs/bpf/test type cgroup/sock_create
# bpftool cgroup attach /sys/fs/cgroup/test cgroup_inet_sock_create pinned /sys/fs/bpf/test
[128, 256) 6413 | |
[256, 512) 1868425 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[512, 1K) 1101697 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[1K, 2K) 117031 |@@@@ |
[2K, 4K) 11773 | |
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014235604.3057003-6-kuniyu@google.com
Why we want a copy of kernel headers in tools?
==============================================
There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.
The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.
There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.
E.g.:
$ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
$
$ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
[0] = "NORMAL",
[1] = "RANDOM",
[2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
[3] = "WILLNEED",
[4] = "DONTNEED",
[5] = "NOREUSE",
};
$
The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.
So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.
Another explanation from Ingo Molnar:
It's better than all the alternatives we tried so far:
- Symbolic links and direct #includes: this was the original approach but
was pushed back on from the kernel side, when tooling modified the
headers and broke them accidentally for kernel builds.
- Duplicate self-defined ABI headers like glibc: double the maintenance
burden, double the chance for mistakes, plus there's no tech-driven
notification mechanism to look at new kernel side changes.
What we are doing now is a third option:
- A software-enforced copy-on-write mechanism of kernel headers to
tooling, driven by non-fatal warnings on the tooling side build when
kernel headers get modified:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/fs.h
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
...
The tooling policy is to always pick up the kernel side headers as-is,
and integate them into the tooling build. The warnings above serve as a
notification to tooling maintainers that there's changes on the kernel
side.
We've been using this for many years now, and it might seem hacky, but
works surprisingly well.