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| author | Andrii Nakryiko | 2024-03-19 14:20:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Daniel Borkmann | 2024-03-25 17:05:48 +0100 |
| commit | a8497506cd2c0fc90a64f6f5d2744a0ddb2c81eb (patch) | |
| tree | 8f76c6f63acd573e2bf281accc765b100e06f5ef /kernel | |
| parent | c29083f3f5069d811b3f3c7592a0dc45ec42960c (diff) | |
bpf: Avoid get_kernel_nofault() to fetch kprobe entry IP
get_kernel_nofault() (or, rather, underlying copy_from_kernel_nofault())
is not free and it does pop up in performance profiles when
kprobes are heavily utilized with CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT=y config.
Let's avoid using it if we know that fentry_ip - 4 can't cross page
boundary. We do that by masking lowest 12 bits and checking if they are
Another benefit (and actually what caused a closer look at this part of
code) is that now LBR record is (typically) not wasted on
copy_from_kernel_nofault() call and code, which helps tools like
retsnoop that grab LBR records from inside BPF code in kretprobes.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240319212013.1046779-1-andrii@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c index 434e3ece6688..6d0c95638e1b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c @@ -1053,9 +1053,15 @@ static unsigned long get_entry_ip(unsigned long fentry_ip) { u32 instr; - /* Being extra safe in here in case entry ip is on the page-edge. */ - if (get_kernel_nofault(instr, (u32 *) fentry_ip - 1)) - return fentry_ip; + /* We want to be extra safe in case entry ip is on the page edge, + * but otherwise we need to avoid get_kernel_nofault()'s overhead. + */ + if ((fentry_ip & ~PAGE_MASK) < ENDBR_INSN_SIZE) { + if (get_kernel_nofault(instr, (u32 *)(fentry_ip - ENDBR_INSN_SIZE))) + return fentry_ip; + } else { + instr = *(u32 *)(fentry_ip - ENDBR_INSN_SIZE); + } if (is_endbr(instr)) fentry_ip -= ENDBR_INSN_SIZE; return fentry_ip; |