linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH RESEND bpf-next 0/4] Support bpf trampoline for RV64

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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:00:33 +0100
From:   Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>
To:     Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Luke Nelson <luke.r.nels@...il.com>, Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Pu Lehui <pulehui@...wei.com>,
        Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH RESEND bpf-next 0/4] Support bpf trampoline for RV64

Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com> writes:

> BPF trampoline is the critical infrastructure of the bpf
> subsystem, acting as a mediator between kernel functions
> and BPF programs. Numerous important features, such as
> using ebpf program for zero overhead kernel introspection,
> rely on this key component. We can't wait to support bpf
> trampoline on RV64. The implementation of bpf trampoline
> was closely to x86 and arm64 for future development.

Thank you for working on this! BPF trampoline is the "missing piece"
from getting proper kfunc support.

Unfortunately, I wont be able to do a proper review until next week.


Happy holidays,
Björn