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>

2 files changed, 102 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 109ef30fee11..10a8b4b3b86e 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1187,6 +1187,7 @@ unsigned int reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
 #define ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT	  0x0
 #endif
 #define ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC	0x200 /* Allows access to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC */
+#define ALLOC_TRYLOCK		0x400 /* Only use spin_trylock in allocation path */
 #define ALLOC_KSWAPD		0x800 /* allow waking of kswapd, __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM set */
 
 /* Flags that allow allocations below the min watermark. */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 579789600a3c..99753bb9d707 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2307,7 +2307,11 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int i;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+	if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags)) {
+		if (unlikely(alloc_flags & ALLOC_TRYLOCK))
+			return 0;
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+	}
 	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
 		struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype,
 								alloc_flags);
@@ -2907,7 +2911,11 @@ struct page *rmqueue_buddy(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *zone,
 
 	do {
 		page = NULL;
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+		if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags)) {
+			if (unlikely(alloc_flags & ALLOC_TRYLOCK))
+				return NULL;
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+		}
 		if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC)
 			page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC);
 		if (!page) {
@@ -4511,7 +4519,12 @@ static inline bool prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 
 	might_alloc(gfp_mask);
 
-	if (should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order))
+	/*
+	 * Don't invoke should_fail logic, since it may call
+	 * get_random_u32() and printk() which need to spin_lock.
+	 */
+	if (!(*alloc_flags & ALLOC_TRYLOCK) &&
+	    should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order))
 		return false;
 
 	*alloc_flags = gfp_to_alloc_flags_cma(gfp_mask, *alloc_flags);
@@ -7071,3 +7084,88 @@ static bool __free_unaccepted(struct page *page)
 }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY */
+
+/**
+ * try_alloc_pages - opportunistic reentrant allocation from any context
+ * @nid: node to allocate from
+ * @order: allocation order size
+ *
+ * Allocates pages of a given order from the given node. This is safe to
+ * call from any context (from atomic, NMI, and also reentrant
+ * allocator -> tracepoint -> try_alloc_pages_noprof).
+ * Allocation is best effort and to be expected to fail easily so nobody should
+ * rely on the success. Failures are not reported via warn_alloc().
+ * See always fail conditions below.
+ *
+ * Return: allocated page or NULL on failure.
+ */
+struct page *try_alloc_pages_noprof(int nid, unsigned int order)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Do not specify __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, since direct claim is not allowed.
+	 * Do not specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM either, since wake up of kswapd
+	 * is not safe in arbitrary context.
+	 *
+	 * These two are the conditions for gfpflags_allow_spinning() being true.
+	 *
+	 * Specify __GFP_NOWARN since failing try_alloc_pages() is not a reason
+	 * to warn. Also warn would trigger printk() which is unsafe from
+	 * various contexts. We cannot use printk_deferred_enter() to mitigate,
+	 * since the running context is unknown.
+	 *
+	 * Specify __GFP_ZERO to make sure that call to kmsan_alloc_page() below
+	 * is safe in any context. Also zeroing the page is mandatory for
+	 * BPF use cases.
+	 *
+	 * Though __GFP_NOMEMALLOC is not checked in the code path below,
+	 * specify it here to highlight that try_alloc_pages()
+	 * doesn't want to deplete reserves.
+	 */
+	gfp_t alloc_gfp = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
+	unsigned int alloc_flags = ALLOC_TRYLOCK;
+	struct alloc_context ac = { };
+	struct page *page;
+
+	/*
+	 * In PREEMPT_RT spin_trylock() will call raw_spin_lock() which is
+	 * unsafe in NMI. If spin_trylock() is called from hard IRQ the current
+	 * task may be waiting for one rt_spin_lock, but rt_spin_trylock() will
+	 * mark the task as the owner of another rt_spin_lock which will
+	 * confuse PI logic, so return immediately if called form hard IRQ or
+	 * NMI.
+	 *
+	 * Note, irqs_disabled() case is ok. This function can be called
+	 * from raw_spin_lock_irqsave region.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && (in_nmi() || in_hardirq()))
+		return NULL;
+	if (!pcp_allowed_order(order))
+		return NULL;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
+	/* Bailout, since try_to_accept_memory_one() needs to take a lock */
+	if (has_unaccepted_memory())
+		return NULL;
+#endif
+	/* Bailout, since _deferred_grow_zone() needs to take a lock */
+	if (deferred_pages_enabled())
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+		nid = numa_node_id();
+
+	prepare_alloc_pages(alloc_gfp, order, nid, NULL, &ac,
+			    &alloc_gfp, &alloc_flags);
+
+	/*
+	 * Best effort allocation from percpu free list.
+	 * If it's empty attempt to spin_trylock zone->lock.
+	 */
+	page = get_page_from_freelist(alloc_gfp, order, alloc_flags, &ac);
+
+	/* Unlike regular alloc_pages() there is no __alloc_pages_slowpath(). */
+
+	trace_mm_page_alloc(page, order, alloc_gfp, ac.migratetype);
+	kmsan_alloc_page(page, order, alloc_gfp);
+	return page;
+}