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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] ppc: ebpf/jit: Implement JIT compiler for extended BPF
On 2016/06/07 03:56PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 07:02:23PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> > PPC64 eBPF JIT compiler.
> >
> > Enable with:
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> > or
> > echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> >
> > ... to see the generated JIT code. This can further be processed with
> > tools/net/bpf_jit_disasm.
> >
> > With CONFIG_TEST_BPF=m and 'modprobe test_bpf':
> > test_bpf: Summary: 305 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [297/297 JIT'ed]
> >
> > ... on both ppc64 BE and LE.
>
> Nice. That's even better than on x64 which cannot jit one test:
> test_bpf: #262 BPF_MAXINSNS: Jump, gap, jump, ... jited:0 168 PASS
> which was designed specifically to hit x64 jit pass limit.
> ppc jit has predicatble number of passes and doesn't have this problem
> as expected. Great.

Yes, that's thanks to the clever handling of conditional branches by
Matt -- we always emit 2 instructions for this reason (encoded in
PPC_BCC() macro).

>
> > The details of the approach are documented through various comments in
> > the code.
> >
> > Cc: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
> > Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 +-
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h | 2 +
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 20 +-
> > arch/powerpc/net/Makefile | 4 +
> > arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h | 53 +-
> > arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit64.h | 102 ++++
> > arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_asm64.S | 180 +++++++
> > arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c | 956 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 8 files changed, 1317 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit64.h
> > create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_asm64.S
> > create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c
>
> don't see any issues with the code.
> Thank you for working on this.
>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Thanks, Alexei!


Regards,
Naveen

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