On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 1:44 PM Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 11 May 2026 at 19:50, Samuel Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patchset adds requisite kfuncs for BPF programs to safely traverse
> > > wakeup_sources, and puts a config flag around the sysfs interface.
> > >
> > > Currently, a traversal of wakeup sources require going through
> > > /sys/class/wakeup/* or /d/wakeup_sources/*. The repeated syscalls to query
> > > sysfs is inefficient, as there can be hundreds of wakeup_sources, with 
> > > each
> > > wakeup source also having multiple attributes. debugfs is unstable and
> > > insecure.
> > >
> > > Adding kfuncs to lock/unlock wakeup sources allows BPF program to safely
> > > traverse the wakeup sources list, and a kfunc to get head of wakeup
> > > sources list is needed to start traversing the list.
> > >
> > > On a quiescent Pixel 6 traversing 150 wakeup_sources, I am seeing ~34x
> > > speedup (sampled 75 times in table below). For a device under load, the
> > > speedup is greater.
> > > +-------+----+----------+----------+
> > > |       | n  | AVG (ms) | STD (ms) |
> > > +-------+----+----------+----------+
> > > | sysfs | 75 | 44.9     | 12.6     |
> > > +-------+----+----------+----------+
> > > | BPF   | 75 | 1.3      | 0.7      |
> > > +-------+----+----------+----------+
> > >
> > > The initial attempts for BPF traversal of wakeup_sources was with BPF
> > > iterators [1]. However, BPF already allows for traversing of a simple list
> > > with bpf_for(), and this current patchset has the added benefit of being
> > > ~2-3x more performant than BPF iterators.
> >
> > This looks good to me, you can add for the set:
> > Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <[email protected]>
>
> Rafael,
> how do you want to route it?
>
> If you ack it we can take it into bpf-next.

I guess if someone really wants this, I have no particular reason to
object, so please feel free to add

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <[email protected]>

to the first patch.

> I'd think patch 1 shouldn't conflict with other 'wakeup' changes.

Sure, there are none ATM anyway.

Thanks!

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