bpf: Enable IRQ after irq_work_raise() completes in unit_alloc()
When doing stress test for qp-trie, bpf_mem_alloc() returned NULL unexpectedly because all qp-trie operations were initiated from bpf syscalls and there was still available free memory. bpf_obj_new() has the same problem as shown by the following selftest. The failure is due to the preemption. irq_work_raise() will invoke irq_work_claim() first to mark the irq work as pending and then inovke __irq_work_queue_local() to raise an IPI. So when the current task which is invoking irq_work_raise() is preempted by other task, unit_alloc() may return NULL for preemption task as shown below: task A task B unit_alloc() // low_watermark = 32 // free_cnt = 31 after alloc irq_work_raise() // mark irq work as IRQ_WORK_PENDING irq_work_claim() // task B preempts task A unit_alloc() // free_cnt = 30 after alloc // irq work is already PENDING, // so just return irq_work_raise() // does unit_alloc() 30-times ...... unit_alloc() // free_cnt = 0 before alloc return NULL Fix it by enabling IRQ after irq_work_raise() completes. An alternative fix is using preempt_{disable|enable}_notrace() pair, but it may have extra overhead. Another feasible fix is to only disable preemption or IRQ before invoking irq_work_queue() and enable preemption or IRQ after the invocation completes, but it can't handle the case when c->low_watermark is 1. Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230901111954.1804721-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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