netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Mixing bpf2bpf and tailcalls for RV64

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Message-ID: <877codoye1.fsf@all.your.base.are.belong.to.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:30:14 +0200
From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>
To: Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: 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>, Palmer Dabbelt
 <palmer@...belt.com>, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>, Luke Nelson
 <luke.r.nels@...il.com>, Pu Lehui <pulehui@...wei.com>, Pu Lehui
 <pulehui@...weicloud.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Mixing bpf2bpf and tailcalls for RV64

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

> In the current RV64 JIT, if we just don't initialize the TCC in subprog,
> the TCC can be propagated from the parent process to the subprocess, but
> the TCC of the parent process cannot be restored when the subprocess
> exits. Since the RV64 TCC is initialized before saving the callee saved
> registers into the stack, we cannot use the callee saved register to
> pass the TCC, otherwise the original value of the callee saved register
> will be destroyed. So we implemented mixing bpf2bpf and tailcalls
> similar to x86_64, i.e. using a non-callee saved register to transfer
> the TCC between functions, and saving that register to the stack to
> protect the TCC value. At the same time, we also consider the scenario
> of mixing trampoline.
>
> In addition, some code cleans are also attached to this patchset.
>
> Tests test_bpf.ko and test_verifier have passed, as well as the relative
> testcases of test_progs*.

Apologies for the review delay. I'm travelling, and will pick it up ASAP
when I'm back.


Björn