Re: [PATCH] x86/bpf: make arch_bpf_trampoline_size allocate from EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA

From: bot+bpf-ci

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 10:12:36 EST


> x86/bpf: make arch_bpf_trampoline_size allocate from EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA
>
> 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")
^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Fixes tag references commit f0334294a428, which does not exist in
this repository. Should this be:

Fixes: 5bf02dbf39fa ("bpf, x86: Make sure allocation in arch_bpf_trampoline_size() is writable")

That commit introduced bpf_jit_alloc_exec_rw() and the performance issue
being addressed here.


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