From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755569Ab2DCWCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:02:42 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:38743 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753846Ab2DCWCk (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:02:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:02:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120403.180236.324578658342931623.davem@davemloft.net> To: kaffeemonster@googlemail.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 2/3] bpf jit: Let the x86 jit handle negative offsets From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4F75D015.30609@googlemail.com> References: <4F75CA89.4010709@googlemail.com> <4F75D015.30609@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Seiffert Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:24:05 +0200 > Now the helper function from filter.c for negative offsets is exported, > it can be used it in the jit to handle negative offsets. > > First modify the asm load helper functions to handle: > - know positive offsets > - know negative offsets > - any offset > > then the compiler can be modified to explicitly use these helper > when appropriate. > > This fixes the case of a negative X register and allows to lift > the restriction that bpf programs with negative offsets can't > be jited. > > Signed-of-by: Jan Seiffert Applied, but with trailing empty lines removed: > diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit.S b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit.S > index 6687022..2897d7f 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit.S > +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit.S > + ret > + There.