2 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Martin KaFai Lau	f9a7cf6eb1	bpf: Introduce BPF_TRACE_x helper for the tracing tests ... For BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING, the bpf_prog's ctx is an array of u64. This patch borrows the idea from BPF_CALL_x in filter.h to convert a u64 to the arg type of the traced function. The new BPF_TRACE_x has an arg to specify the return type of a bpf_prog. It will be used in the future TCP-ops bpf_prog that may return "void". The new macros are defined in the new header file "bpf_trace_helpers.h". It is under selftests/bpf/ for now. It could be moved to libbpf later after seeing more upcoming non-tracing use cases. The tests are changed to use these new macros also. Hence, the k[s]u8/16/32/64 are no longer needed and they are removed from the bpf_helpers.h. Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191123202504.1502696-1-kafai@fb.com	2019-11-24 17:12:11 -08:00
Alexei Starovoitov	c4781e37c6	selftests/bpf: Add BPF trampoline performance test ... Add a test that benchmarks different ways of attaching BPF program to a kernel function. Here are the results for 2.4Ghz x86 cpu on a kernel without mitigations: $ ./test_progs -n 49 -v|grep events task_rename base 2743K events per sec task_rename kprobe 2419K events per sec task_rename kretprobe 1876K events per sec task_rename raw_tp 2578K events per sec task_rename fentry 2710K events per sec task_rename fexit 2685K events per sec On a kernel with retpoline: $ ./test_progs -n 49 -v|grep events task_rename base 2401K events per sec task_rename kprobe 1930K events per sec task_rename kretprobe 1485K events per sec task_rename raw_tp 2053K events per sec task_rename fentry 2351K events per sec task_rename fexit 2185K events per sec All 5 approaches: - kprobe/kretprobe in __set_task_comm() - raw tracepoint in trace_task_rename() - fentry/fexit in __set_task_comm() are roughly equivalent. __set_task_comm() by itself is quite fast, so any extra instructions add up. Until BPF trampoline was introduced the fastest mechanism was raw tracepoint. kprobe via ftrace was second best. kretprobe is slow due to trap. New fentry/fexit methods via BPF trampoline are clearly the fastest and the difference is more pronounced with retpoline on, since BPF trampoline doesn't use indirect jumps. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191122011515.255371-1-ast@kernel.org	2019-11-24 16:58:46 -08:00