bpf: Support inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() helper

The motivation of inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() comes from the performance
profiling of bpf memory allocator benchmark. The benchmark uses
bpf_kptr_xchg() to stash the allocated objects and to pop the stashed
objects for free. After inling bpf_kptr_xchg(), the performance for
object free on 8-CPUs VM increases about 2%~10%. The inline also has
downside: both the kasan and kcsan checks on the pointer will be
unavailable.

bpf_kptr_xchg() can be inlined by converting the calling of
bpf_kptr_xchg() into an atomic_xchg() instruction. But the conversion
depends on two conditions:
1) JIT backend supports atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized word
2) For the specific arch, the implementation of xchg is the same as
   atomic_xchg() on pointer-sized words.

It seems most 64-bit JIT backends satisfies these two conditions. But
as a precaution, defining a weak function bpf_jit_supports_ptr_xchg()
to state whether such conversion is safe and only supporting inline for
64-bit host.

For x86-64, it supports BPF_XCHG atomic operation and both xchg() and
atomic_xchg() use arch_xchg() to implement the exchange, so enabling the
inline of bpf_kptr_xchg() on x86-64 first.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240105104819.3916743-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
index be72824f32b2..e04ca1af8927 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -1414,6 +1414,7 @@ BPF_CALL_2(bpf_kptr_xchg, void *, map_value, void *, ptr)
 {
 	unsigned long *kptr = map_value;
 
+	/* This helper may be inlined by verifier. */
 	return xchg(kptr, (unsigned long)ptr);
 }