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Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:02:03 -0800 (PST)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
To:     bjorn.topel@...il.com
CC:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, davidlee@...ive.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject:     Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] RV64G eBPF JIT

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:03:18 PST (-0800), bjorn.topel@...il.com wrote:
> Den tis 15 jan. 2019 kl 16:40 skrev Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>:
>>
>> Hi Björn,
>>
>> at least for me patch 3 didn't make it to the list.
>>
>
> Hmm, held back: "Your message to linux-riscv awaits moderator
> approval". Exceeded the 40k limit.
>
> I'll wait until the moderator wakes up (Palmer?).

Sorry, it took me a while to wake up :)

>
>
> Björn
>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 09:35:15AM +0100, Björn Töpel wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I've been hacking on a RV64G eBPF JIT compiler, and would like some
>> > feedback.
>> >
>> > Codewise, it needs some refactoring. Currently there's a bit too much
>> > copy-and-paste going on, and I know some places where I could optimize
>> > the code generation a bit (mostly BPF_K type of instructions, dealing
>> > with immediates).
>> >
>> > From a features perspective, two things are missing:
>> >
>> > * tail calls
>> > * "far-branches", i.e. conditional branches that reach beyond 13b.
>> >
>> > The test_bpf.ko (only tested on 4.20!) passes all tests.
>> >
>> > I've done all the tests on QEMU (version 3.1.50), so no real hardware.
>> >
>> > Some questions/observations:
>> >
>> > * I've added "HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS" to
>> >   arch/riscv/Kconfig. Is this assumption correct?
>> >
>> > * emit_imm() just relies on lui, adds and shifts. No fancy xori cost
>> >   optimizations like GCC does.
>> >
>> > * Suggestions on how to implement the tail call, given that the
>> >   prologue/epilogue has variable size. I will dig into the details of
>> >   mips/arm64/x86. :-)
>> >
>> > Next steps (prior patch proper) is cleaning up the code, add tail
>> > calls, and making sure that bpftool disassembly works correctly.
>> >
>> > All input are welcome. This is my first RISC-V hack, so I sure there
>> > are a lot things to improve!
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Björn
>> >
>> >
>> > Björn Töpel (3):
>> >   riscv: set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
>> >   riscv: add build infra for JIT compiler
>> >   bpf, riscv: added eBPF JIT for RV64G
>> >
>> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig            |    2 +
>> >  arch/riscv/Makefile           |    4 +
>> >  arch/riscv/net/Makefile       |    5 +
>> >  arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 1612 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  4 files changed, 1623 insertions(+)
>> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/net/Makefile
>> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
>> >
>> > --
>> > 2.19.1
>> >
>> >
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