From: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 11/11] bpf: Document new atomic instructions
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:25:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8496a00-65d9-5231-d806-5b402c7fb3cf@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+i-1C2ddNES0DXoO1L_nrqpK5EtA9xKE1yRGrqSVv0dECZozQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/16/20 3:44 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 08:08, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/15/20 4:18 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
>>> Document new atomic instructions.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
>>
>> Ack with minor comments below.
>>
>> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
>>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/networking/filter.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
>>> index 1583d59d806d..26d508a5e038 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
>>> @@ -1053,6 +1053,32 @@ encoding.
>>> .imm = BPF_ADD, .code = BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_W | BPF_STX: lock xadd *(u32 *)(dst_reg + off16) += src_reg
>>> .imm = BPF_ADD, .code = BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_DW | BPF_STX: lock xadd *(u64 *)(dst_reg + off16) += src_reg
>>>
>>> +The basic atomic operations supported (from architecture v4 onwards) are:
>>
>> Remove "(from architecture v4 onwards)".
>
> Oops, thanks.
>
>>> +
>>> + BPF_ADD
>>> + BPF_AND
>>> + BPF_OR
>>> + BPF_XOR
>>> +
>>> +Each having equivalent semantics with the ``BPF_ADD`` example, that is: the
>>> +memory location addresed by ``dst_reg + off`` is atomically modified, with
>>> +``src_reg`` as the other operand. If the ``BPF_FETCH`` flag is set in the
>>> +immediate, then these operations also overwrite ``src_reg`` with the
>>> +value that was in memory before it was modified.
>>> +
>>> +The more special operations are:
>>> +
>>> + BPF_XCHG
>>> +
>>> +This atomically exchanges ``src_reg`` with the value addressed by ``dst_reg +
>>> +off``.
>>> +
>>> + BPF_CMPXCHG
>>> +
>>> +This atomically compares the value addressed by ``dst_reg + off`` with
>>> +``R0``. If they match it is replaced with ``src_reg``, The value that was there
>>> +before is loaded back to ``R0``.
>>> +
>>> Note that 1 and 2 byte atomic operations are not supported.
>>
>> Adding something like below.
>>
>> Except xadd for legacy reason, all other 4 byte atomic operations
>> require alu32 mode.
>> The alu32 mode can be enabled with clang flags "-Xclang -target-feature
>> -Xclang +alu32" or "-mcpu=v3". The cpu version 3 has alu32 mode on by
>> default.
>
> Thanks, I've written it as:
>
> Except ``BPF_ADD`` _without_ ``BPF_FETCH`` (for legacy reasons), all 4
> byte atomic operations require alu32 mode. Clang enables this mode by
> default in architecture v3 (``-mcpu=v3``). For older versions it can
> be enabled with ``-Xclang -target-feature -Xclang +alu32``.
Sounds good. thanks!
>
>>>
>>> You may encounter BPF_XADD - this is a legacy name for BPF_ATOMIC, referring to
>>>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-16 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-15 12:18 [PATCH bpf-next v4 00/11] Atomics for eBPF Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 01/11] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of ModR/M for *(reg + off) Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2] libbpf: Expose libbpf ringbufer epoll_fd Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 18:35 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 02/11] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of REX byte Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 03/11] bpf: x86: Factor out a lookup table for some ALU opcodes Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 04/11] bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 14:05 ` Björn Töpel
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 05/11] bpf: Move BPF_STX reserved field check into BPF_STX verifier code Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 06/11] bpf: Add BPF_FETCH field / create atomic_fetch_add instruction Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 07/11] bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg Brendan Jackman
2020-12-16 6:47 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 08/11] bpf: Pull out a macro for interpreting atomic ALU operations Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 09/11] bpf: Add bitwise atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-12-16 6:53 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 10/11] bpf: Add tests for new BPF atomic operations Brendan Jackman
2020-12-15 12:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 11/11] bpf: Document new atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-12-16 7:08 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-16 11:44 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-16 15:25 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
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