[PATCH RFC 10/13] bpf, arm64: Maintain Tasks RCU trampoline nesting in the BPF trampoline
From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Date: 2026-09-10 18:51:16
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bpf, linux-arm-kernel, lkml, rcu, xen-devel
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), bpf jit for arm64, bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Daniel Borkmann, Alexei Starovoitov, Puranjay Mohan, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Linus Torvalds
Same scheme as x86: emit "mrs x10, sp_el0; ldr/add|sub/str w11" to bump current->rcu_tramp_nesting after the callee-saved registers are stored and to drop it before they are restored, and release it around the call to the original function, which im->pcref protects and which must not pin a Tasks RCU grace period. x10/x11 are scratch at every emission point; the fmod_ret cbnz target lies after the decrement/increment pair around the original call, and the ip_after_call nop follows the re-increment, so the count is balanced on every path. BUILD_BUG_ON guards the LDR/STR immediate range for the task_struct offset. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> --- arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index c18e005a41db..5c9a7bde5cc9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c@@ -2591,6 +2591,34 @@ static void emit_arena_arg_conv(struct jit_ctx *ctx, u8 dst, u8 src, bool nullab emit(A64_SUB(0, dst, src, base_lo), ctx); } +/* + * Tasks RCU trampoline nesting, see rcu_tasks_trampoline_enter(). + * + * mrs x10, sp_el0 + * ldr w11, [x10, #offsetof(struct task_struct, rcu_tramp_nesting)] + * add/sub w11, w11, #1 + * str w11, [x10, #...] + * + * x10/x11 are scratch in the trampoline at every point this is emitted. + */ +static void emit_rcu_tasks_tramp_nesting(struct jit_ctx *ctx, bool enter) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU + const int off = offsetof(struct task_struct, rcu_tramp_nesting); + const u8 tsk = A64_R(10), cnt = A64_R(11); + + BUILD_BUG_ON(off & 3 || off >= SZ_16K); /* LDR/STR (imm12, scaled) */ + + emit(A64_MRS_SP_EL0(tsk), ctx); + emit(A64_LDR32I(cnt, tsk, off), ctx); + if (enter) + emit(A64_ADD_I(0, cnt, cnt, 1), ctx); + else + emit(A64_SUB_I(0, cnt, cnt, 1), ctx); + emit(A64_STR32I(cnt, tsk, off), ctx); +#endif +} + static void save_args(struct jit_ctx *ctx, int bargs_off, int oargs_off, const struct btf_func_model *m, const struct arg_aux *a, bool for_call_origin, bool is_struct_ops, u64 arena_base)
@@ -2854,6 +2882,13 @@ static int prepare_trampoline(struct jit_ctx *ctx, struct bpf_tramp_image *im, emit(A64_STR64I(A64_R(19), A64_SP, regs_off), ctx); emit(A64_STR64I(A64_R(20), A64_SP, regs_off + 8), ctx); + /* + * From here until the matching decrement in the epilogue, a preemption + * of this task is not a Tasks RCU quiescent state. The instructions + * above this point are covered by the irq-exit IP check. + */ + emit_rcu_tasks_tramp_nesting(ctx, true); + if (flags & BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG) { /* for the first pass, assume the worst case */ if (!ctx->image)
@@ -2898,12 +2933,20 @@ static int prepare_trampoline(struct jit_ctx *ctx, struct bpf_tramp_image *im, if (flags & BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG) { /* the original func takes kernel addresses, never converted ones */ save_args(ctx, bargs_off, oargs_off, m, a, true, is_struct_ops, 0); + /* + * The original function may run for a long time without + * sleeping; do not let it pin a Tasks RCU grace period. The + * trampoline frame above it is held by im->pcref + * (__bpf_tramp_enter()), not by Tasks RCU, across the call. + */ + emit_rcu_tasks_tramp_nesting(ctx, false); /* call original func */ emit(A64_LDR64I(A64_R(10), A64_SP, retaddr_off), ctx); emit(A64_ADR(A64_LR, AARCH64_INSN_SIZE * 2), ctx); emit(A64_RET(A64_R(10)), ctx); /* store return value */ emit(A64_STR64I(A64_R(0), A64_SP, retval_off), ctx); + emit_rcu_tasks_tramp_nesting(ctx, true); /* reserve a nop for bpf_tramp_image_put */ im->ip_after_call = ctx->ro_image + ctx->idx; emit(A64_NOP, ctx);
@@ -2945,6 +2988,9 @@ static int prepare_trampoline(struct jit_ctx *ctx, struct bpf_tramp_image *im, if (flags & BPF_TRAMP_F_RESTORE_REGS) restore_args(ctx, bargs_off, a->regs_for_args); + /* Remaining instructions are covered by the irq-exit IP check. */ + emit_rcu_tasks_tramp_nesting(ctx, false); + /* restore callee saved register x19 and x20 */ emit(A64_LDR64I(A64_R(19), A64_SP, regs_off), ctx); emit(A64_LDR64I(A64_R(20), A64_SP, regs_off + 8), ctx);
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