Re: [PATCH 16/31] perf tools: Add prologue for BPF programs for fetching arguments

From: Wangnan (F)
Date: Thu Oct 15 2015 - 08:02:28 EST




On 2015/10/15 13:26, Namhyung Kim wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:41:27PM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
From: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch generates prologue for a BPF program which fetch arguments
for it. With this patch, the program can have arguments as follow:

SEC("lock_page=__lock_page page->flags")
int lock_page(struct pt_regs *ctx, int err, unsigned long flags)
{
return 1;
}

This patch passes at most 3 arguments from r3, r4 and r5. r1 is still
the ctx pointer. r2 is used to indicate the successfulness of
dereferencing.

This patch uses r6 to hold ctx (struct pt_regs) and r7 to hold stack
pointer for result. Result of each arguments first store on stack:

low address
BPF_REG_FP - 24 ARG3
BPF_REG_FP - 16 ARG2
BPF_REG_FP - 8 ARG1
BPF_REG_FP
high address

Then loaded into r3, r4 and r5.

The output prologue for offn(...off2(off1(reg)))) should be:

r6 <- r1 // save ctx into a callee saved register
r7 <- fp
r7 <- r7 - stack_offset // pointer to result slot
/* load r3 with the offset in pt_regs of 'reg' */
(r7) <- r3 // make slot valid
r3 <- r3 + off1 // prepare to read unsafe pointer
r2 <- 8
r1 <- r7 // result put onto stack
call probe_read // read unsafe pointer
jnei r0, 0, err // error checking
r3 <- (r7) // read result
r3 <- r3 + off2 // prepare to read unsafe pointer
r2 <- 8
r1 <- r7
call probe_read
jnei r0, 0, err
...
/* load r2, r3, r4 from stack */
goto success
err:
r2 <- 1
/* load r3, r4, r5 with 0 */
goto usercode
success:
r2 <- 0
usercode:
r1 <- r6 // restore ctx
// original user code

If all of arguments reside in register (dereferencing is not
required), gen_prologue_fastpath() will be used to create
fast prologue:

r3 <- (r1 + offset of reg1)
r4 <- (r1 + offset of reg2)
r5 <- (r1 + offset of reg3)
r2 <- 0

P.S.

eBPF calling convention is defined as:

* r0 - return value from in-kernel function, and exit value
for eBPF program
* r1 - r5 - arguments from eBPF program to in-kernel function
* r6 - r9 - callee saved registers that in-kernel function will
preserve
* r10 - read-only frame pointer to access stack

Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pi3orama@xxxxxxx
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/ebpf-6yw9eg0ej3l4jnqhinngkw86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
[SNIP]
+int bpf__gen_prologue(struct probe_trace_arg *args, int nargs,
+ struct bpf_insn *new_prog, size_t *new_cnt,
+ size_t cnt_space)
+{
+ struct bpf_insn *success_code = NULL;
+ struct bpf_insn *error_code = NULL;
+ struct bpf_insn *user_code = NULL;
+ struct bpf_insn_pos pos;
+ bool fastpath = true;
+ int i;
+
+ if (!new_prog || !new_cnt)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ pos.begin = new_prog;
+ pos.end = new_prog + cnt_space;
+ pos.pos = new_prog;
+
+ if (!nargs) {
+ ins(BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_MOV, BPF_PROLOGUE_FETCH_RESULT_REG, 0),
+ &pos);
+
+ if (check_pos(&pos))
+ goto errout;
+
+ *new_cnt = pos_get_cnt(&pos);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (nargs > BPF_PROLOGUE_MAX_ARGS)
+ nargs = BPF_PROLOGUE_MAX_ARGS;
Wouldn't it be better to inform user if it ignored some arguments?

Correct. I'd like to add a notification in next version:

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c
index e4adb18..36093d9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c
@@ -337,8 +337,10 @@ int bpf__gen_prologue(struct probe_trace_arg *args, int nargs,
return 0;
}

- if (nargs > BPF_PROLOGUE_MAX_ARGS)
+ if (nargs > BPF_PROLOGUE_MAX_ARGS) {
+ pr_warning("bpf: prologue: too many arguments\n");
nargs = BPF_PROLOGUE_MAX_ARGS;
+ }
if (cnt_space > BPF_MAXINSNS)
cnt_space = BPF_MAXINSNS;


Thank you.


Thanks,
Namhyung


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