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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:14:01 +0200 From: Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@...il.com> To: Dave Martin <dave.martin@...aro.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:52:52PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:33:38PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:24:18PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:19:58PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:50:21PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:40:30AM +0100, Mircea Gherzan wrote: > > > > > > Based of Matt Evans's PPC64 implementation. > > > > > Note that it's fine to have the JIT generating ARM code, even if the rest > > > > > if the kernel is Thumb-2. This would only start to cause problems if we > > > > > want to do things like set kprobes in the JITted code, or unwind out of > > > > > the JITted code. > > > > or use a CPU that doesn't speak ARM (e.g. v7M) > > > > > > Indeed... I was assuming though that that would be out of scope for the > > > first iteration of this code. > > Right, depending on !THUMB2 is fine. Only generating ARM code with > > THUMB2=y is not. > > The kernel doesn't support v7-M upstream though. CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y > doesn't mean that there is no ARM code present -- there _is_ ARM code in > the kernel image even with this option (though not very much). What about relying at runtime on bits[3:0] of ID_PFR0? And this only for ARMv7. Are there any other ARM cores of interest that do _not_ support the ARM instruction set? Thanks, Mircea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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