Re: [PATCH v3] net: filter: BPF 'JIT' compiler for PPC64

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 11:51 +1000, Matt Evans a écrit :
> An implementation of a code generator for BPF programs to speed up packet
> filtering on PPC64, inspired by Eric Dumazet's x86-64 version.
> 
> Filter code is generated as an ABI-compliant function in module_alloc()'d mem
> with stackframe & prologue/epilogue generated if required (simple filters don't
> need anything more than an li/blr).  The filter's local variables, M[], live in
> registers.  Supports all BPF opcodes, although "complicated" loads from negative
> packet offsets (e.g. SKF_LL_OFF) are not yet supported.
> 
> There are a couple of further optimisations left for future work; many-pass
> assembly with branch-reach reduction and a register allocator to push M[]
> variables into volatile registers would improve the code quality further.
> 
> This currently supports big-endian 64-bit PowerPC only (but is fairly simple
> to port to PPC32 or LE!).
> 
> Enabled in the same way as x86-64:
> 
> 	echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> 
> Or, enabled with extra debug output:
> 
> 	echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
> ---
> 
> V3: Added BUILD_BUG_ON to assert PACA CPU ID is 16bits, made a comment (in
>     LD_MSH) a bit clearer, ratelimited "Unknown opcode" error and moved
>     bpf_jit.S to bpf_jit_64.S (it doesn't make sense to rename bpf_jit_comp.c as
>     small portions will eventually get split out into _32/_64.c files when we do
>     32bit support).
> 
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                  |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/Makefile                 |    3 +-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h |   40 ++
>  arch/powerpc/net/Makefile             |    4 +
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h            |  227 +++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_64.S         |  138 +++++++
>  arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c       |  694 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 1106 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Nice work Matt ;)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Thanks