bpf: Permit cond_resched for some iterators
Commit e679654a ("bpf: Fix a rcu_sched stall issue with bpf task/task_file iterator") tries to fix rcu stalls warning which is caused by bpf task_file iterator when running "bpftool prog". rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: \x097-....: (20999 ticks this GP) idle=302/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=1508852/1508852 fqs=4913 \x09(t=21031 jiffies g=2534773 q=179750) NMI backtrace for cpu 7 CPU: 7 PID: 184195 Comm: bpftool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.8.0-00004-g68bfc7f8c1b4 #6 Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A17 05/03/2019 Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack+0x57/0x70 nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x14/0x53 ? lapic_can_unplug_cpu.cold+0x39/0x39 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xb7/0xc7 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xa2/0xd0 rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold+0x1ff/0x3d9 ? tick_nohz_handler+0x100/0x100 update_process_times+0x5b/0x90 tick_sched_timer+0x5e/0xf0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x12a/0x2a0 hrtimer_interrupt+0x10e/0x280 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x51/0xe0 asm_call_on_stack+0xf/0x20 </IRQ> sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 ... task_file_seq_next+0x52/0xa0 bpf_seq_read+0xb9/0x320 vfs_read+0x9d/0x180 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x60 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 The fix is to limit the number of bpf program runs to be one million. This fixed the program in most cases. But we also found under heavy load, which can increase the wallclock time for bpf_seq_read(), the warning may still be possible. For example, calling bpf_delay() in the "while" loop of bpf_seq_read(), which will introduce artificial delay, the warning will show up in my qemu run. static unsigned q; volatile unsigned *p = &q; volatile unsigned long long ll; static void bpf_delay(void) { int i, j; for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) for (j = 0; j < 10000; j++) ll += *p; } There are two ways to fix this issue. One is to reduce the above one million threshold to say 100,000 and hopefully rcu warning will not show up any more. Another is to introduce a target feature which enables bpf_seq_read() calling cond_resched(). This patch took second approach as the first approach may cause more -EAGAIN failures for read() syscalls. Note that not all bpf_iter targets can permit cond_resched() in bpf_seq_read() as some, e.g., netlink seq iterator, rcu read lock critical section spans through seq_ops->next() -> seq_ops->show() -> seq_ops->next(). For the kernel code with the above hack, "bpftool p" roughly takes 38 seconds to finish on my VM with 184 bpf program runs. Using the following command, I am able to collect the number of context switches: perf stat -e context-switches -- ./bpftool p >& log Without this patch, 69 context-switches With this patch, 75 context-switches This patch added additional 6 context switches, roughly every 6 seconds to reschedule, to avoid lengthy no-rescheduling which may cause the above RCU warnings. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028061054.1411116-1-yhs@fb.com
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