[PATCH 1/2] scx: Allow calling sleepable kfuncs from BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL

From: David Vernet
Date: Wed Jul 31 2024 - 01:14:52 EST


We currently only allow calling sleepable scx kfuncs (i.e.
scx_bpf_create_dsq()) from BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS progs. The idea here
was that we'd never have to call scx_bpf_create_dsq() outside of a
sched_ext struct_ops callback, but that might not actually be true. For
example, a scheduler could do something like the following:

1. Open and load (not yet attach) a scheduler skel

2. Synchronously call into a BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL prog from user space.
For example, to initialize an LLC domain, or some other global,
read-only state.

3. Attach the skel, which actually enables the scheduler

The advantage of doing this is that it can preclude having to do pretty
ugly boilerplate like initializing a read-only, statically sized array of
u64[]'s which the kernel consumes literally once at init time to then
create struct bpf_cpumask objects which are actually queried at runtime.

Doing the above is already possible given that we can invoke core BPF
kfuncs, such as bpf_cpumask_create(), from BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL progs. We
already allow many scx kfuncs to be called from BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL progs
(e.g. scx_bpf_kick_cpu()). Let's allow the sleepable kfuncs as well.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched/ext.h | 14 ++++++--------
kernel/sched/ext.c | 27 +++++++++++----------------
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/ext.h b/include/linux/sched/ext.h
index 593d2f4909dd..26e1c33bc844 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/ext.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/ext.h
@@ -106,16 +106,14 @@ enum scx_ent_dsq_flags {
* mechanism. See scx_kf_allow().
*/
enum scx_kf_mask {
- SCX_KF_UNLOCKED = 0, /* not sleepable, not rq locked */
- /* all non-sleepables may be nested inside SLEEPABLE */
- SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE = 1 << 0, /* sleepable init operations */
+ SCX_KF_UNLOCKED = 0, /* sleepable and not rq locked */
/* ENQUEUE and DISPATCH may be nested inside CPU_RELEASE */
- SCX_KF_CPU_RELEASE = 1 << 1, /* ops.cpu_release() */
+ SCX_KF_CPU_RELEASE = 1 << 0, /* ops.cpu_release() */
/* ops.dequeue (in REST) may be nested inside DISPATCH */
- SCX_KF_DISPATCH = 1 << 2, /* ops.dispatch() */
- SCX_KF_ENQUEUE = 1 << 3, /* ops.enqueue() and ops.select_cpu() */
- SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU = 1 << 4, /* ops.select_cpu() */
- SCX_KF_REST = 1 << 5, /* other rq-locked operations */
+ SCX_KF_DISPATCH = 1 << 1, /* ops.dispatch() */
+ SCX_KF_ENQUEUE = 1 << 2, /* ops.enqueue() and ops.select_cpu() */
+ SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU = 1 << 3, /* ops.select_cpu() */
+ SCX_KF_REST = 1 << 4, /* other rq-locked operations */

__SCX_KF_RQ_LOCKED = SCX_KF_CPU_RELEASE | SCX_KF_DISPATCH |
SCX_KF_ENQUEUE | SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU | SCX_KF_REST,
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index da9cac6b6cc2..4a07deb30c44 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -1029,16 +1029,12 @@ static __always_inline bool scx_kf_allowed(u32 mask)
return false;
}

- if (unlikely((mask & SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE) && in_interrupt())) {
- scx_ops_error("sleepable kfunc called from non-sleepable context");
- return false;
- }
-
/*
* Enforce nesting boundaries. e.g. A kfunc which can be called from
* DISPATCH must not be called if we're running DEQUEUE which is nested
- * inside ops.dispatch(). We don't need to check the SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE
- * boundary thanks to the above in_interrupt() check.
+ * inside ops.dispatch(). We don't need to check boundaries for any
+ * blocking kfuncs as the verifier ensures they're only called from
+ * sleepable progs.
*/
if (unlikely(highest_bit(mask) == SCX_KF_CPU_RELEASE &&
(current->scx.kf_mask & higher_bits(SCX_KF_CPU_RELEASE)))) {
@@ -3224,9 +3220,9 @@ static void handle_hotplug(struct rq *rq, bool online)
atomic_long_inc(&scx_hotplug_seq);

if (online && SCX_HAS_OP(cpu_online))
- SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE, cpu_online, cpu);
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_UNLOCKED, cpu_online, cpu);
else if (!online && SCX_HAS_OP(cpu_offline))
- SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE, cpu_offline, cpu);
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_UNLOCKED, cpu_offline, cpu);
else
scx_ops_exit(SCX_ECODE_ACT_RESTART | SCX_ECODE_RSN_HOTPLUG,
"cpu %d going %s, exiting scheduler", cpu,
@@ -3390,7 +3386,7 @@ static int scx_ops_init_task(struct task_struct *p, struct task_group *tg, bool
.fork = fork,
};

- ret = SCX_CALL_OP_RET(SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE, init_task, p, &args);
+ ret = SCX_CALL_OP_RET(SCX_KF_UNLOCKED, init_task, p, &args);
if (unlikely(ret)) {
ret = ops_sanitize_err("init_task", ret);
return ret;
@@ -4648,7 +4644,7 @@ static int scx_ops_enable(struct sched_ext_ops *ops, struct bpf_link *link)
cpus_read_lock();

if (scx_ops.init) {
- ret = SCX_CALL_OP_RET(SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE, init);
+ ret = SCX_CALL_OP_RET(SCX_KF_UNLOCKED, init);
if (ret) {
ret = ops_sanitize_err("init", ret);
goto err_disable_unlock_cpus;
@@ -5424,14 +5420,11 @@ __bpf_kfunc_start_defs();
* @dsq_id: DSQ to create
* @node: NUMA node to allocate from
*
- * Create a custom DSQ identified by @dsq_id. Can be called from ops.init() and
- * ops.init_task().
+ * Create a custom DSQ identified by @dsq_id. Can be called from any sleepable
+ * scx callback, and any BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL prog.
*/
__bpf_kfunc s32 scx_bpf_create_dsq(u64 dsq_id, s32 node)
{
- if (!scx_kf_allowed(SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE))
- return -EINVAL;
-
if (unlikely(node >= (int)nr_node_ids ||
(node < 0 && node != NUMA_NO_NODE)))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -6490,6 +6483,8 @@ static int __init scx_init(void)
*/
if ((ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS,
&scx_kfunc_set_sleepable)) ||
+ (ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL,
+ &scx_kfunc_set_sleepable)) ||
(ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS,
&scx_kfunc_set_select_cpu)) ||
(ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS,
--
2.45.2