On Thu,  3 Oct 2024 11:16:34 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> wrote:

> In preparation for allowing system call enter/exit instrumentation to
> handle page faults, make sure that bpf can handle this change by
> explicitly disabling preemption within the bpf system call tracepoint
> probes to respect the current expectations within bpf tracing code.
> 
> This change does not yet allow bpf to take page faults per se within its
> probe, but allows its existing probes to adapt to the upcoming change.
> 

I guess the BPF folks should state if this is needed or not?

Does the BPF hooks into the tracepoints expect preemption to be disabled
when called?

-- Steve


> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]> # BPF parts
> Cc: Michael Jeanson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/trace/bpf_probe.h | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/trace/bpf_probe.h b/include/trace/bpf_probe.h
> index c85bbce5aaa5..211b98d45fc6 100644
> --- a/include/trace/bpf_probe.h
> +++ b/include/trace/bpf_probe.h
> @@ -53,8 +53,17 @@ __bpf_trace_##call(void *__data, proto)                    
>                 \
>  #define DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(call, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print)       
> \
>       __BPF_DECLARE_TRACE(call, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
>  
> +#define __BPF_DECLARE_TRACE_SYSCALL(call, proto, args)                       
> \
> +static notrace void                                                  \
> +__bpf_trace_##call(void *__data, proto)                                      
> \
> +{                                                                    \
> +     guard(preempt_notrace)();                                       \
> +     CONCATENATE(bpf_trace_run, COUNT_ARGS(args))(__data, 
> CAST_TO_U64(args));        \
> +}
> +
>  #undef DECLARE_EVENT_SYSCALL_CLASS
> -#define DECLARE_EVENT_SYSCALL_CLASS DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
> +#define DECLARE_EVENT_SYSCALL_CLASS(call, proto, args, tstruct, assign, 
> print)       \
> +     __BPF_DECLARE_TRACE_SYSCALL(call, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
>  
>  /*
>   * This part is compiled out, it is only here as a build time check


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