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State equivalence check and checkpointing performed in is_state_visited() employs certain heuristics to try to save memory by avoiding state checkpoints if not enough jumps and instructions happened since last checkpoint. This leads to unpredictability of whether a particular instruction will be checkpointed and how regularly. While normally this is not causing much problems (except inconveniences for predictable verifier tests, which we overcome with BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ flag), turns out it's not the case for open-coded iterators. Checking and saving state checkpoints at iter_next() call is crucial for fast convergence of open-coded iterator loop logic, so we need to force it. If we don't do that, is_state_visited() might skip saving a checkpoint, causing unnecessarily long sequence of not checkpointed instructions and jumps, leading to exhaustion of jump history buffer, and potentially other undesired outcomes. It is expected that with correct open-coded iterators convergence will happen quickly, so we don't run a risk of exhausting memory. This patch adds, in addition to prune and jump instruction marks, also a "forced checkpoint" mark, and makes sure that any iter_next() call instruction is marked as such. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230310060149.625887-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.