From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.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: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 17:36:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201129013615.mf45ihcio2abuvlu@ast-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2e093c3-79bc-0a6b-8919-c5a07667926a@fb.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-29 1:37 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 [this message]
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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