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From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
	Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 01/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of ModR/M for *(reg + off)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 12:14:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201121437.GB2114905@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201129011552.jbepegeeo2lqv6ke@ast-mbp>

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 05:15:52PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 05:57:26PM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> > +/* Emit the ModR/M byte for addressing *(r1 + off) and r2 */
> > +static void emit_modrm_dstoff(u8 **pprog, u32 r1, u32 r2, int off)
> 
> same concern as in the another patch. If you could avoid intel's puzzling names
> like above it will make reviewing the patch easier.

In this case there is actually a call like

  emit_modrm_dstoff(&prog, src_reg, dst_reg)

So calling the function args dst_reg, src_reg would be misleading.

I could call them ptr_reg and val_reg or something?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-27 17:57 [PATCH v2 bpf-next 00/13] Atomics for eBPF Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 01/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of ModR/M for *(reg + off) Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29  1:15   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:14     ` Brendan Jackman [this message]
2020-12-02  5:50       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 10:52         ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 17:35           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 02/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of REX byte Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29  1:14   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:12     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02  5:48       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 10:54         ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 03/13] bpf: x86: Factor out function to emit NEG Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 04/13] bpf: x86: Factor out a lookup table for some ALU opcodes Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 05/13] bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28  3:43   ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:17     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 06/13] bpf: Move BPF_STX reserved field check into BPF_STX verifier code Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 07/13] bpf: Add BPF_FETCH field / create atomic_fetch_add instruction Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28  4:15   ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:22     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 08/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28  5:25   ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:27     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29  1:27   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:32     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 09/13] bpf: Pull out a macro for interpreting atomic ALU operations Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 21:39   ` kernel test robot
2020-11-27 21:39   ` [RFC PATCH] bpf: bpf_atomic_alu_string[] can be static kernel test robot
2020-11-28  5:35   ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub Yonghong Song
2020-11-29  1:34     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:18       ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:38         ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02  5:55           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 11:19             ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 11/13] bpf: Add bitwise atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28  5:39   ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-29  1:36     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:20       ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 12/13] bpf: Add tests for new BPF atomic operations Brendan Jackman
2020-12-01  3:55   ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:56     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-01 17:24       ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02  2:22   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 12:26     ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 13/13] bpf: Document new atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28  5:53 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 00/13] Atomics for eBPF Yonghong Song
2020-11-29  1:40   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:22     ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01  3:48       ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02  2:00         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02  5:05           ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02  5:53             ` John Fastabend
2020-12-02  5:59               ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02  6:27                 ` John Fastabend
2020-12-02  8:03             ` Yonghong Song

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