[PATCH 10/22] bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for ___bpf_prog_run()

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Sun Jul 14 2019 - 20:37:57 EST


On x86-64, with CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n, GCC's "global common subexpression
elimination" optimization results in ___bpf_prog_run()'s jumptable code
changing from this:

select_insn:
jmp *jumptable(, %rax, 8)
...
ALU64_ADD_X:
...
jmp *jumptable(, %rax, 8)
ALU_ADD_X:
...
jmp *jumptable(, %rax, 8)

to this:

select_insn:
mov jumptable, %r12
jmp *(%r12, %rax, 8)
...
ALU64_ADD_X:
...
jmp *(%r12, %rax, 8)
ALU_ADD_X:
...
jmp *(%r12, %rax, 8)

The jumptable address is placed in a register once, at the beginning of
the function. The function execution can then go through multiple
indirect jumps which rely on that same register value. This has a few
issues:

1) Objtool isn't smart enough to be able to track such a register value
across multiple recursive indirect jumps through the jump table.

2) With CONFIG_RETPOLINE enabled, this optimization actually results in
a small slowdown. I measured a ~4.7% slowdown in the test_bpf
"tcpdump port 22" selftest.

This slowdown is actually predicted by the GCC manual:

Note: When compiling a program using computed gotos, a GCC
extension, you may get better run-time performance if you
disable the global common subexpression elimination pass by
adding -fno-gcse to the command line.

So just disable the optimization for this function.

Fixes: e55a73251da3 ("bpf: Fix ORC unwinding in non-JIT BPF code")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 ++
include/linux/compiler_types.h | 4 ++++
kernel/bpf/core.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index e8579412ad21..d7ee4c6bad48 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -170,3 +170,5 @@
#else
#define __diag_GCC_8(s)
#endif
+
+#define __no_fgcse __attribute__((optimize("-fno-gcse")))
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 095d55c3834d..599c27b56c29 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
#define asm_volatile_goto(x...) asm goto(x)
#endif

+#ifndef __no_fgcse
+# define __no_fgcse
+#endif
+
/* Are two types/vars the same type (ignoring qualifiers)? */
#define __same_type(a, b) __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(a), typeof(b))

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index 7e98f36a14e2..8191a7db2777 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ bool bpf_opcode_in_insntable(u8 code)
*
* Decode and execute eBPF instructions.
*/
-static u64 ___bpf_prog_run(u64 *regs, const struct bpf_insn *insn, u64 *stack)
+static u64 __no_fgcse ___bpf_prog_run(u64 *regs, const struct bpf_insn *insn, u64 *stack)
{
#define BPF_INSN_2_LBL(x, y) [BPF_##x | BPF_##y] = &&x##_##y
#define BPF_INSN_3_LBL(x, y, z) [BPF_##x | BPF_##y | BPF_##z] = &&x##_##y##_##z
--
2.20.1