Re: [PATCH v2] arm: eBPF JIT compiler

[Shubham Bansal <illusionist.neo@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,

>
> Not all of the helpers have 4 or less byte arguments only, there are a
> few with 8 byte arguments, so making that general assumption wouldn't
> work. I guess what could be done is that helpers have a flag in struct
> bpf_func_proto which indicates for JITs that all args are 4 byte on 32bit
> so you could probably use convention similar to case2 for them. Presumably
> for that information to process, the JIT might need to be reworked to
> extract that via bpf_analyzer() that does a verifier run to re-analyze
> the program like in nfp JIT case.

Let me try a better solution which can be used to support both 4 byte
and 8 byte arguments. I hope it would work out. Are you sure this
patch can pass if it only supports 4 byte arguments though?
Let me list out what I have to do, so that you can tell me if I am
thinking in a wrong way :-

* I will add a bit flag in bpf_func_proto to represent whether
different arguments in a function call are 4 bytes or 8 bytes. If lsb
of bit flag is set then first argument is 8 byte, otherwise its not. I
think I can handle this flag properly in build_insn() in my code. Does
this sound okay?

I don't understand second part of your solution, i.e.

> Presumably
> for that information to process, the JIT might need to be reworked to
> extract that via bpf_analyzer() that does a verifier run to re-analyze
> the program like in nfp JIT case.

Please explain what are you suggesting and how can I extract bit flag
from bpf_func_proto().

Please reply asap, as I would like to finish it over the weekend. Please.

-Shubham