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From: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>, <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	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 11/13] bpf: Add bitwise atomic instructions
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:20:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57c39719-06e6-17cf-32d4-70869f6618a5@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201129013615.mf45ihcio2abuvlu@ast-mbp>



On 11/28/20 5:36 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:39:10PM -0800, Yonghong Song wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/27/20 9:57 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
>>> This adds instructions for
>>>
>>> atomic[64]_[fetch_]and
>>> atomic[64]_[fetch_]or
>>> atomic[64]_[fetch_]xor
>>>
>>> All these operations are isomorphic enough to implement with the same
>>> verifier, interpreter, and x86 JIT code, hence being a single commit.
>>>
>>> The main interesting thing here is that x86 doesn't directly support
>>> the fetch_ version these operations, so we need to generate a CMPXCHG
>>> loop in the JIT. This requires the use of two temporary registers,
>>> IIUC it's safe to use BPF_REG_AX and x86's AUX_REG for this purpose.
>>
>> similar to previous xsub (atomic[64]_sub), should we implement
>> xand, xor, xxor in llvm?
> 
> yes. please. Unlike atomic_fetch_sub that can be handled by llvm.
> atomic_fetch_or/xor/and has to be seen as separate instructions
> because JITs will translate them as loop.

Okay, will try to implement xsub, xand, xor and xxor in llvm.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-30 17:22 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
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 [this message]
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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