Adding kprobe multi triggering benchmarks. It's useful now to bench
new fprobe implementation and might be useful later as well.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240311211023.590321-1-jolsa@kernel.org
We already have kprobe and fentry benchmarks. Let's add kretprobe and
fexit ones for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240309005124.3004446-1-andrii@kernel.org
Settle on three "flavors" of uprobe/uretprobe, installed on different
kinds of instruction: nop, push, and ret. All three are testing
different internal code paths emulating or single-stepping instructions,
so are interesting to compare and benchmark separately.
To ensure `push rbp` instruction we ensure that uprobe_target_push() is
not a leaf function by calling (global __weak) noop function and
returning something afterwards (if we don't do that, compiler will just
do a tail call optimization).
Also, we need to make sure that compiler isn't skipping frame pointer
generation, so let's add `-fno-omit-frame-pointers` to Makefile.
Just to give an idea of where we currently stand in terms of relative
performance of different uprobe/uretprobe cases vs a cheap syscall
(getpgid()) baseline, here are results from my local machine:
$ benchs/run_bench_uprobes.sh
base : 1.561 ± 0.020M/s
uprobe-nop : 0.947 ± 0.007M/s
uprobe-push : 0.951 ± 0.004M/s
uprobe-ret : 0.443 ± 0.007M/s
uretprobe-nop : 0.471 ± 0.013M/s
uretprobe-push : 0.483 ± 0.004M/s
uretprobe-ret : 0.306 ± 0.007M/s
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240301214551.1686095-1-andrii@kernel.org
Considering that only bench_ringbufs.c supports consumer, just set the
default value of consumer_cnt as 0. After that, update the validity
check of consumer_cnt, remove unused consumer_thread code snippets and
set consumer_cnt as 1 in run_bench_ringbufs.sh accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613080921.1623219-5-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fix how selftests determine relative offset of a function that is
uprobed. Previously, there was an assumption that uprobed function is
always in the first executable region, which is not always the case
(libbpf CI hits this case now). So get_base_addr() approach in isolation
doesn't work anymore. So teach get_uprobe_offset() to determine correct
memory mapping and calculate uprobe offset correctly.
While at it, I merged together two implementations of
get_uprobe_offset() helper, moving powerpc64-specific logic inside (had
to add extra {} block to avoid unused variable error for insn).
Also ensured that uprobed functions are never inlined, but are still
static (and thus local to each selftest), by using a no-op asm volatile
block internally. I didn't want to keep them global __weak, because some
tests use uprobe's ref counter offset (to test USDT-like logic) which is
not compatible with non-refcounted uprobe. So it's nicer to have each
test uprobe target local to the file and guaranteed to not be inlined or
skipped by the compiler (which can happen with static functions,
especially if compiling selftests with -O2).
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220126193058.3390292-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fix checkpatch error: "ERROR: Bad function definition - void foo()
should probably be void foo(void)". Most replacements are done by
the following command:
sed -i 's#\([a-z]\)()$#\1(void)#g' testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/*.c
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211210141652.877186-3-houtao1@huawei.com
Add benchmark to measure overhead of uprobes and uretprobes. Also have
a baseline (no uprobe attached) benchmark.
On my dev machine, baseline benchmark can trigger 130M user_target()
invocations. When uprobe is attached, this falls to just 700K. With
uretprobe, we get down to 520K:
$ sudo ./bench trig-uprobe-base -a
Summary: hits 131.289 ± 2.872M/s
# UPROBE
$ sudo ./bench -a trig-uprobe-without-nop
Summary: hits 0.729 ± 0.007M/s
$ sudo ./bench -a trig-uprobe-with-nop
Summary: hits 1.798 ± 0.017M/s
# URETPROBE
$ sudo ./bench -a trig-uretprobe-without-nop
Summary: hits 0.508 ± 0.012M/s
$ sudo ./bench -a trig-uretprobe-with-nop
Summary: hits 0.883 ± 0.008M/s
So there is almost 2.5x performance difference between probing nop vs
non-nop instruction for entry uprobe. And 1.7x difference for uretprobe.
This means that non-nop uprobe overhead is around 1.4 microseconds for uprobe
and 2 microseconds for non-nop uretprobe.
For nop variants, uprobe and uretprobe overhead is down to 0.556 and
1.13 microseconds, respectively.
For comparison, just doing a very low-overhead syscall (with no BPF
programs attached anywhere) gives:
$ sudo ./bench trig-base -a
Summary: hits 4.830 ± 0.036M/s
So uprobes are about 2.67x slower than pure context switch.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211116013041.4072571-1-andrii@kernel.org
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
It is sometimes desirable to be able to trigger BPF program from user-space
with minimal overhead. sys_enter would seem to be a good candidate, yet in
a lot of cases there will be a lot of noise from syscalls triggered by other
processes on the system. So while searching for low-overhead alternative, I've
stumbled upon getpgid() syscall, which seems to be specific enough to not
suffer from accidental syscall by other apps.
This set of benchmarks compares tp, raw_tp w/ filtering by syscall ID, kprobe,
fentry and fmod_ret with returning error (so that syscall would not be
executed), to determine the lowest-overhead way. Here are results on my
machine (using benchs/run_bench_trigger.sh script):
base : 9.200 ± 0.319M/s
tp : 6.690 ± 0.125M/s
rawtp : 8.571 ± 0.214M/s
kprobe : 6.431 ± 0.048M/s
fentry : 8.955 ± 0.241M/s
fmodret : 8.903 ± 0.135M/s
So it seems like fmodret doesn't give much benefit for such lightweight
syscall. Raw tracepoint is pretty decent despite additional filtering logic,
but it will be called for any other syscall in the system, which rules it out.
Fentry, though, seems to be adding the least amoung of overhead and achieves
97.3% of performance of baseline no-BPF-attached syscall.
Using getpgid() seems to be preferable to set_task_comm() approach from
test_overhead, as it's about 2.35x faster in a baseline performance.
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/20200512192445.2351848-5-andriin@fb.com
Jiri Olsa