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authorAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>2019-11-17 09:28:04 -0800
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2019-11-18 11:41:59 +0100
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bpf: Add mmap() support for BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY
Add ability to memory-map contents of BPF array map. This is extremely useful for working with BPF global data from userspace programs. It allows to avoid typical bpf_map_{lookup,update}_elem operations, improving both performance and usability. There had to be special considerations for map freezing, to avoid having writable memory view into a frozen map. To solve this issue, map freezing and mmap-ing is happening under mutex now: - if map is already frozen, no writable mapping is allowed; - if map has writable memory mappings active (accounted in map->writecnt), map freezing will keep failing with -EBUSY; - once number of writable memory mappings drops to zero, map freezing can be performed again. Only non-per-CPU plain arrays are supported right now. Maps with spinlocks can't be memory mapped either. For BPF_F_MMAPABLE array, memory allocation has to be done through vmalloc() to be mmap()'able. We also need to make sure that array data memory is page-sized and page-aligned, so we over-allocate memory in such a way that struct bpf_array is at the end of a single page of memory with array->value being aligned with the start of the second page. On deallocation we need to accomodate this memory arrangement to free vmalloc()'ed memory correctly. One important consideration regarding how memory-mapping subsystem functions. Memory-mapping subsystem provides few optional callbacks, among them open() and close(). close() is called for each memory region that is unmapped, so that users can decrease their reference counters and free up resources, if necessary. open() is *almost* symmetrical: it's called for each memory region that is being mapped, **except** the very first one. So bpf_map_mmap does initial refcnt bump, while open() will do any extra ones after that. Thus number of close() calls is equal to number of open() calls plus one more. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191117172806.2195367-4-andriin@fb.com
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diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a3c70e275f4e..4a7d7459c4f9 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2672,6 +2672,26 @@ void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc_node);
/**
+ * vmalloc_user_node_flags - allocate memory for userspace on a specific node
+ * @size: allocation size
+ * @node: numa node
+ * @flags: flags for the page level allocator
+ *
+ * The resulting memory area is zeroed so it can be mapped to userspace
+ * without leaking data.
+ *
+ * Return: pointer to the allocated memory or %NULL on error
+ */
+void *vmalloc_user_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return __vmalloc_node_range(size, SHMLBA, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+ flags | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL,
+ VM_USERMAP, node,
+ __builtin_return_address(0));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_user_node_flags);
+
+/**
* vmalloc_exec - allocate virtually contiguous, executable memory
* @size: allocation size
*