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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:33:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111219153338.GV24496@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111219152418.GF2031@linaro.org>

Hello,

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:24:18PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:19:58PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:50:21PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:40:30AM +0100, Mircea Gherzan wrote:
> > > > Based of Matt Evans's PPC64 implementation.
> > > Note that it's fine to have the JIT generating ARM code, even if the rest
> > > if the kernel is Thumb-2.  This would only start to cause problems if we
> > > want to do things like set kprobes in the JITted code, or unwind out of
> > > the JITted code.
> > or use a CPU that doesn't speak ARM (e.g. v7M)
> 
> Indeed... I was assuming though that that would be out of scope for the
> first iteration of this code.
Right, depending on !THUMB2 is fine. Only generating ARM code with
THUMB2=y is not.

Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-K?nig            |
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-19 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-19  8:40 [PATCH v2] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters Mircea Gherzan
2011-12-19 12:50 ` Dave Martin
2011-12-19 15:19   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-12-19 15:24     ` Dave Martin
2011-12-19 15:33       ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2011-12-19 15:52         ` Dave Martin
2011-12-19 17:14           ` Mircea Gherzan
2011-12-19 17:39           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-12-19 16:45   ` Mircea Gherzan
2011-12-19 18:18     ` Dave Martin
2011-12-19 18:29       ` Dave Martin
2011-12-21 14:59         ` Mircea Gherzan
2011-12-22 17:00           ` Dave Martin
2011-12-22 17:34             ` David Laight
2011-12-23  2:26               ` Nicolas Pitre

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