bpf_prog_pack followup

This set is the second half of v4 [1].

Changes v5 => v6:
1. Rebase and extend CC list.

Changes v4 => v5:
1. Rebase and resolve conflicts due to module.c split.
2. Update experiment results (below).

For our web service production benchmark, bpf_prog_pack on 4kB pages gives 0.5% to 0.7% more throughput than not using bpf_prog_pack. bpf_prog_pack on 2MB pages 0.6% to 0.9% more throughput than not using bpf_prog_pack. Note that 0.5% is a huge improvement for our fleet. I believe this is also significant for other companies with many thousand servers.

Update: Further experiments (suggested by Rick Edgecombe) showed that most of benefit on the web service benchmark came from less direct map fragmentation. The experiment is as follows:

Side A: 2MB bpf prog pack on a single 2MB page;
Side B: 2MB bpf prog pack on 512x 4kB pages;

The system only uses about 200kB for BPF programs, but 2MB is allocated for bpf_prog_pack (for both A and B). Therefore, direct map fragmentation caused by BPF programs is elminated, and we are only measuring the performance difference of 1x 2MB page vs. ~50 4kB pages (we only use about 50 out of the 512 pages). For these two sides, the difference in system throughput is within the noise. I also measured iTLB-load-misses caused by bpf programs, which is ~300/s for case A, and ~1600/s for case B. The overall iTLB-load-misses is about 1.5M/s on these hosts. Therefore, we can clearly see 2MB page reduces iTLB misses, but the difference is not enough to have visible impact on system throughput.

Of course, the impact of iTLB miss will be more significant for systems with more BPF programs loaded.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/

Song Liu (5):
module: introduce module_alloc_huge
bpf: use module_alloc_huge for bpf_prog_pack
vmalloc: WARN for set_vm_flush_reset_perms() on huge pages
vmalloc: introduce huge_vmalloc_supported
bpf: simplify select_bpf_prog_pack_size

 arch/x86/kernel/module.c     | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/moduleloader.h |  5 +++++
 include/linux/vmalloc.h      |  7 +++++++
 kernel/bpf/core.c            | 25 ++++++++++---------------
 kernel/module/main.c         |  8 ++++++++
 mm/vmalloc.c                 |  5 +++++
 6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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