mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
Tracing BPF programs execute from tracepoints and kprobes where running context is unknown, but they need to request additional memory. The prior workarounds were using pre-allocated memory and BPF specific freelists to satisfy such allocation requests. Instead, introduce gfpflags_allow_spinning() condition that signals to the allocator that running context is unknown. Then rely on percpu free list of pages to allocate a page. try_alloc_pages() -> get_page_from_freelist() -> rmqueue() -> rmqueue_pcplist() will spin_trylock to grab the page from percpu free list. If it fails (due to re-entrancy or list being empty) then rmqueue_bulk()/rmqueue_buddy() will attempt to spin_trylock zone->lock and grab the page from there. spin_trylock() is not safe in PREEMPT_RT when in NMI or in hard IRQ. Bailout early in such case. The support for gfpflags_allow_spinning() mode for free_page and memcg comes in the next patches. This is a first step towards supporting BPF requirements in SLUB and getting rid of bpf_mem_alloc. That goal was discussed at LSFMM: https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/ Acked-by:Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by:
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250222024427.30294-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com Signed-off-by:
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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