Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 6 authors, 2023-01-23

Re: [bpf-next v2] bpf: drop deprecated bpf_jit_enable == 2

From: Tonghao Zhang <hidden>
Date: 2023-01-17 14:24:53
Also in: bpf, linux-mips, linux-riscv, linux-s390, loongarch, netdev, sparclinux

On Jan 17, 2023, at 3:30 PM, Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] wrote:



Le 17/01/2023 à 06:30, Tonghao Zhang a écrit :
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On Jan 9, 2023, at 4:15 PM, Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] wrote:



Le 06/01/2023 à 16:37, Daniel Borkmann a écrit :
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On 1/5/23 6:53 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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Le 05/01/2023 à 04:06, tong@infragraf.org a écrit :
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From: Tonghao Zhang <redacted>

The x86_64 can't dump the valid insn in this way. A test BPF prog
which include subprog:

$ llvm-objdump -d subprog.o
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000000000 <subprog>:
         0:       18 01 00 00 73 75 62 70 00 00 00 00 72 6f 67 00 r1
= 29114459903653235 ll
         2:       7b 1a f8 ff 00 00 00 00 *(u64 *)(r10 - 8) = r1
         3:       bf a1 00 00 00 00 00 00 r1 = r10
         4:       07 01 00 00 f8 ff ff ff r1 += -8
         5:       b7 02 00 00 08 00 00 00 r2 = 8
         6:       85 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 call 6
         7:       95 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 exit
Disassembly of section raw_tp/sys_enter:
0000000000000000 <entry>:
         0:       85 10 00 00 ff ff ff ff call -1
         1:       b7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 r0 = 0
         2:       95 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 exit

kernel print message:
[  580.775387] flen=8 proglen=51 pass=3 image=ffffffffa000c20c
from=kprobe-load pid=1643
[  580.777236] JIT code: 00000000: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc
[  580.779037] JIT code: 00000010: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc
[  580.780767] JIT code: 00000020: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc
[  580.782568] JIT code: 00000030: cc cc cc

$ bpf_jit_disasm
51 bytes emitted from JIT compiler (pass:3, flen:8)
ffffffffa000c20c + <x>:
     0:   int3
     1:   int3
     2:   int3
     3:   int3
     4:   int3
     5:   int3
     ...

Until bpf_jit_binary_pack_finalize is invoked, we copy rw_header to
header
and then image/insn is valid. BTW, we can use the "bpftool prog dump"
JITed instructions.
NACK.

Because the feature is buggy on x86_64, you remove it for all
architectures ?

On powerpc bpf_jit_enable == 2 works and is very usefull.

Last time I tried to use bpftool on powerpc/32 it didn't work. I don't
remember the details, I think it was an issue with endianess. Maybe it
is fixed now, but it needs to be verified.

So please, before removing a working and usefull feature, make sure
there is an alternative available to it for all architectures in all
configurations.

Also, I don't think bpftool is usable to dump kernel BPF selftests.
That's vital when a selftest fails if you want to have a chance to
understand why it fails.
If this is actively used by JIT developers and considered useful, I'd be
ok to leave it for the time being. Overall goal is to reach feature parity
among (at least major arch) JITs and not just have most functionality only
available on x86-64 JIT. Could you however check what is not working with
bpftool on powerpc/32? Perhaps it's not too much effort to just fix it,
but details would be useful otherwise 'it didn't work' is too fuzzy.
Sure I will try to test bpftool again in the coming days.

Previous discussion about that subject is here:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20210415093250.3391257-1-Jianlin.Lv@arm.com/#24176847=
Hi Christophe
Any progress? We discuss to deprecate the bpf_jit_enable == 2 in 2021, but bpftool can not run on powerpc.
Now can we fix this issue?
Hi Tong,

I have started to look at it but I don't have any fruitfull feedback yet.

In the meantime, were you able to confirm that bpftool can also be used 
to dump jitted tests from test_bpf.ko module on x86_64 ? In that can you 
tell me how to proceed ?
Now I do not test, but we can dump the insn after bpf_prog_select_runtime in test_bpf.ko. bpf_map_get_info_by_fd can copy the insn to userspace, but we can
dump them in test_bpf.ko in the same way.
Thanks
Christophe
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Also, with regards to the last statement that bpftool is not usable to
dump kernel BPF selftests. Could you elaborate some more? I haven't used
bpf_jit_enable == 2 in a long time and for debugging always relied on
bpftool to dump xlated insns or JIT. Or do you mean by BPF selftests
the test_bpf.ko module? Given it has a big batch with kernel-only tests,
there I can see it's probably still useful.
Yes I mean test_bpf.ko

I used it as the test basis when I implemented eBPF for powerpc/32. And
not so long ago it helped decover and fix a bug, see
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/89d21e259a94f7d5582ec675aa445f5a79f347e4
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Cheers,
Daniel
  
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