History log of /linux-master/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_overhead.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# afef88e6 01-Sep-2022 Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>

selftests/bpf: Store BPF object files with .bpf.o extension

BPF object files are, in a way, the final artifact produced as part of
the ahead-of-time compilation process. That makes them somewhat special
compared to "regular" object files, which are a intermediate build
artifacts that can typically be removed safely. As such, it can make
sense to name them differently to make it easier to spot this difference
at a glance.

Among others, libbpf-bootstrap [0] has established the extension .bpf.o
for BPF object files. It seems reasonable to follow this example and
establish the same denomination for selftest build artifacts. To that
end, this change adjusts the corresponding part of the build system and
the test programs loading BPF object files to work with .bpf.o files.

[0] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf-bootstrap

Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220901222253.1199242-1-deso@posteo.net


# a393ea80 13-Dec-2021 Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@fb.com>

selftests/bpf: Stop using bpf_object__find_program_by_title API.

bpf_object__find_program_by_title is going to be deprecated. Replace
all use cases in tools/testing/selftests/bpf with
bpf_object__find_program_by_name or bpf_object__for_each_program.

Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211214035931.1148209-2-kuifeng@fb.com


# bad2e478 24-May-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

selftests/bpf: Turn on libbpf 1.0 mode and fix all IS_ERR checks

Turn ony libbpf 1.0 mode. Fix all the explicit IS_ERR checks that now will be
broken because libbpf returns NULL on error (and sets errno). Fix
ASSERT_OK_PTR and ASSERT_ERR_PTR to work for both old mode and new modes and
use them throughout selftests. This is trivial to do by using
libbpf_get_error() API that all libbpf users are supposed to use, instead of
IS_ERR checks.

A bunch of checks also did explicit -1 comparison for various fd-returning
APIs. Such checks are replaced with >= 0 or < 0 cases.

There were also few misuses of bpf_object__find_map_by_name() in test_maps.
Those are fixed in this patch as well.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210525035935.1461796-3-andrii@kernel.org


# b000def2 25-Sep-2020 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>

selftests: Remove fmod_ret from test_overhead

The test_overhead prog_test included an fmod_ret program that attached to
__set_task_comm() in the kernel. However, this function was never listed as
allowed for return modification, so this only worked because of the
verifier skipping tests when a trampoline already existed for the attach
point. Now that the verifier checks have been fixed, remove fmod_ret from
the test so it works again.

Fixes: 4eaf0b5c5e04 ("selftest/bpf: Fmod_ret prog and implement test_overhead as part of bench")
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# 4eaf0b5c 12-May-2020 Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>

selftest/bpf: Fmod_ret prog and implement test_overhead as part of bench

Add fmod_ret BPF program to existing test_overhead selftest. Also re-implement
user-space benchmarking part into benchmark runner to compare results. Results
with ./bench are consistently somewhat lower than test_overhead's, but relative
performance of various types of BPF programs stay consisten (e.g., kretprobe is
noticeably slower). This slowdown seems to be coming from the fact that
test_overhead is single-threaded, while benchmark always spins off at least
one thread for producer. This has been confirmed by hacking multi-threaded
test_overhead variant and also single-threaded bench variant. Resutls are
below. run_bench_rename.sh script from benchs/ subdirectory was used to
produce results for ./bench.

Single-threaded implementations
===============================

/* bench: single-threaded, atomics */
base : 4.622 ± 0.049M/s
kprobe : 3.673 ± 0.052M/s
kretprobe : 2.625 ± 0.052M/s
rawtp : 4.369 ± 0.089M/s
fentry : 4.201 ± 0.558M/s
fexit : 4.309 ± 0.148M/s
fmodret : 4.314 ± 0.203M/s

/* selftest: single-threaded, no atomics */
task_rename base 4555K events per sec
task_rename kprobe 3643K events per sec
task_rename kretprobe 2506K events per sec
task_rename raw_tp 4303K events per sec
task_rename fentry 4307K events per sec
task_rename fexit 4010K events per sec
task_rename fmod_ret 3984K events per sec

Multi-threaded implementations
==============================

/* bench: multi-threaded w/ atomics */
base : 3.910 ± 0.023M/s
kprobe : 3.048 ± 0.037M/s
kretprobe : 2.300 ± 0.015M/s
rawtp : 3.687 ± 0.034M/s
fentry : 3.740 ± 0.087M/s
fexit : 3.510 ± 0.009M/s
fmodret : 3.485 ± 0.050M/s

/* selftest: multi-threaded w/ atomics */
task_rename base 3872K events per sec
task_rename kprobe 3068K events per sec
task_rename kretprobe 2350K events per sec
task_rename raw_tp 3731K events per sec
task_rename fentry 3639K events per sec
task_rename fexit 3558K events per sec
task_rename fmod_ret 3511K events per sec

/* selftest: multi-threaded, no atomics */
task_rename base 3945K events per sec
task_rename kprobe 3298K events per sec
task_rename kretprobe 2451K events per sec
task_rename raw_tp 3718K events per sec
task_rename fentry 3782K events per sec
task_rename fexit 3543K events per sec
task_rename fmod_ret 3526K events per sec

Note that the fact that ./bench benchmark always uses atomic increments for
counting, while test_overhead doesn't, doesn't influence test results all that
much.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200512192445.2351848-4-andriin@fb.com


# e4300224 08-Jan-2020 Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>

selftests/bpf: Restore original comm in test_overhead

test_overhead changes task comm in order to estimate BPF trampoline
overhead but never sets the comm back to the original one.
We have the tests (like core_reloc.c) that have 'test_progs'
as hard-coded expected comm, so let's try to preserve the
original comm.

Currently, everything works because the order of execution is:
first core_recloc, then test_overhead; but let's make it a bit
future-proof.

Other related changes: use 'test_overhead' as new comm instead of
'test' to make it easy to debug and drop '\n' at the end.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200108192132.189221-1-sdf@google.com


# c4781e37 21-Nov-2019 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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