bpf: Support inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() helper

The motivation of inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() comes from the performance
profiling of bpf memory allocator benchmark. The benchmark uses
bpf_kptr_xchg() to stash the allocated objects and to pop the stashed
objects for free. After inling bpf_kptr_xchg(), the performance for
object free on 8-CPUs VM increases about 2%~10%. The inline also has
downside: both the kasan and kcsan checks on the pointer will be
unavailable.

bpf_kptr_xchg() can be inlined by converting the calling of
bpf_kptr_xchg() into an atomic_xchg() instruction. But the conversion
depends on two conditions:
1) JIT backend supports atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized word
2) For the specific arch, the implementation of xchg is the same as
   atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized words.

It seems most 64-bit JIT backends satisfies these two conditions. But
as a precaution, defining a weak function bpf_jit_supports_ptr_xchg()
to state whether such conversion is safe and only supporting inline for
64-bit host.

For x86-64, it supports BPF_XCHG atomic operation and both xchg() and
atomic_xchg() use arch_xchg() to implement the exchange, so enabling the
inline of bpf_kptr_xchg() on x86-64 first.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240105104819.3916743-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index ea6843be2616..fbb1d95a9b44 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -2925,6 +2925,16 @@ bool __weak bpf_jit_supports_far_kfunc_call(void)
 	return false;
 }
 
+/* Return TRUE if the JIT backend satisfies the following two conditions:
+ * 1) JIT backend supports atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized words.
+ * 2) Under the specific arch, the implementation of xchg() is the same
+ *    as atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized words.
+ */
+bool __weak bpf_jit_supports_ptr_xchg(void)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
 /* To execute LD_ABS/LD_IND instructions __bpf_prog_run() may call
  * skb_copy_bits(), so provide a weak definition of it for NET-less config.
  */
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
index be72824f32b2..e04ca1af8927 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -1414,6 +1414,7 @@ BPF_CALL_2(bpf_kptr_xchg, void *, map_value, void *, ptr)
 {
 	unsigned long *kptr = map_value;
 
+	/* This helper may be inlined by verifier. */
 	return xchg(kptr, (unsigned long)ptr);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 65f598694d55..5b33d65eef7b 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -19809,6 +19809,23 @@ patch_map_ops_generic:
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		/* Implement bpf_kptr_xchg inline */
+		if (prog->jit_requested && BITS_PER_LONG == 64 &&
+		    insn->imm == BPF_FUNC_kptr_xchg &&
+		    bpf_jit_supports_ptr_xchg()) {
+			insn_buf[0] = BPF_MOV64_REG(BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_2);
+			insn_buf[1] = BPF_ATOMIC_OP(BPF_DW, BPF_XCHG, BPF_REG_1, BPF_REG_0, 0);
+			cnt = 2;
+
+			new_prog = bpf_patch_insn_data(env, i + delta, insn_buf, cnt);
+			if (!new_prog)
+				return -ENOMEM;
+
+			delta    += cnt - 1;
+			env->prog = prog = new_prog;
+			insn      = new_prog->insnsi + i + delta;
+			continue;
+		}
 patch_call_imm:
 		fn = env->ops->get_func_proto(insn->imm, env->prog);
 		/* all functions that have prototype and verifier allowed