Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: bpf: add 'store immediate' instruction

Will Deacon
2015-11-11T12:12:56Z

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 06:45:39PM -0800, Z Lim wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> wrote:
> > aarch64 doesn't have native store immediate instruction, such operation
>
> Actually, aarch64 does have "STR (immediate)". For arm64 JIT, we can
> consider using it as an optimization.

Yes, I'd definitely like to see that in preference to moving via a
temporary register.

Will