netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/4] arm64: insn: add encoders for atomic operations

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Message-ID: <4524da71-3977-07db-bd6e-cebd1c539805@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:39:48 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Hou Tao <houtao1@...wei.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Julien Thierry <jthierry@...hat.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/4] arm64: insn: add encoders for atomic
 operations

On 1/29/22 11:04 PM, Hou Tao wrote:
> It is a preparation patch for eBPF atomic supports under arm64. eBPF
> needs support atomic[64]_fetch_add, atomic[64]_[fetch_]{and,or,xor} and
> atomic[64]_{xchg|cmpxchg}. The ordering semantics of eBPF atomics are
> the same with the implementations in linux kernel.
> 
> Add three helpers to support LDCLR/LDEOR/LDSET/SWP, CAS and DMB
> instructions. STADD/STCLR/STEOR/STSET are simply encoded as aliases for
> LDADD/LDCLR/LDEOR/LDSET with XZR as the destination register, so no extra
> helper is added. atomic_fetch_add() and other atomic ops needs support for
> STLXR instruction, so extend enum aarch64_insn_ldst_type to do that.
> 
> LDADD/LDEOR/LDSET/SWP and CAS instructions are only available when LSE
> atomics is enabled, so just return AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT directly in
> these newly-added helpers if CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS is disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@...wei.com>

Hey Mark / Ard / Will / Catalin or others, could we get an Ack on patch 1 & 2
at min if it looks good to you?

Thanks a lot,
Daniel