[PATCH] x86/bpf: make arch_bpf_trampoline_size allocate from EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 09:12:34 EST
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Jiri Olsa reports slowdown of tracing_multi benchmark that allocates huge
number of trampolines [1].
The slowdown caused by extra protection changes in execmem_alloc_rw() and
execmem_free().
With ROX caches enabled, all execmem allocations except EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA
are ROX after the allocation. execmem_alloc_rw() temporarily sets them to
W+NX and execmem_free() resets them back to ROX.
The only user of bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw() is x86::arch_bpf_trampoline_size()
that only needs a temporary writable buffer in the modules address space.
On x86 executable memory and module data are constrained to the same
address range, so x86::arch_bpf_trampoline_size() can directly use
execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA)
Replace the call to bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw() with a call to
execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA) in x86::arch_bpf_trampoline_size() and
drop bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw() helper.
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/an8r7EODLIL-bZM3@krava
Fixes: f0334294a428 ("bpf, x86: make sure allocation in arch_bpf_trampoline_size() is writable")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 8 +++++---
include/linux/filter.h | 1 -
kernel/bpf/core.c | 5 -----
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index b2feec81e231..7d064d3e2788 100644
--- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/bpf_verifier.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
+#include <linux/execmem.h>
#include <asm/extable.h>
#include <asm/ftrace.h>
#include <asm/set_memory.h>
@@ -3706,15 +3707,16 @@ int arch_bpf_trampoline_size(const struct btf_func_model *m, u32 flags,
*
* We cannot use kvmalloc here, because we need image to be in
* module memory range.
- * Since it must be writable use bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw().
+ * Since it must be writable use execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA)
+ * that returns writable memory in the module address space.
*/
- image = bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw(PAGE_SIZE);
+ image = execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!image)
return -ENOMEM;
ret = __arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline(&im, image, image + PAGE_SIZE, image,
m, flags, tnodes, func_addr);
- bpf_jit_free_exec(image);
+ execmem_free(image);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/filter.h b/include/linux/filter.h
index 32d5297c557e..14acb2455746 100644
--- a/include/linux/filter.h
+++ b/include/linux/filter.h
@@ -1333,7 +1333,6 @@ bpf_jit_binary_alloc(unsigned int proglen, u8 **image_ptr,
void bpf_jit_binary_free(struct bpf_binary_header *hdr);
u64 bpf_jit_alloc_exec_limit(void);
void *bpf_jit_alloc_exec(unsigned long size);
-void *bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw(unsigned long size);
void bpf_jit_free_exec(void *addr);
void bpf_jit_free(struct bpf_prog *fp);
struct bpf_binary_header *
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index e2076667b245..1b89c18cf246 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -1128,11 +1128,6 @@ void *bpf_jit_alloc_exec(unsigned long size)
return execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_BPF, size);
}
-void *bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw(unsigned long size)
-{
- return execmem_alloc_rw(EXECMEM_BPF, size);
-}
-
void bpf_jit_free_exec(void *addr)
{
execmem_free(addr);
base-commit: 07edbd8fe6416f45e9ba6b0edcd3e40770601ebc
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2.53.0