Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/8] arm32, bpf: add support for sign-extension mov instruction

Russell King (Oracle)
2023-09-07T16:21:51Z

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 06:33:15PM +0000, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> The cpuv4 added a new BPF_MOVSX instruction that sign extends the src
> before moving it to the destination.
>
> BPF_ALU | BPF_MOVSX sign extends 8-bit and 16-bit operands into 32-bit
> operands, and zeroes the remaining upper 32 bits.
>
> BPF_ALU64 | BPF_MOVSX sign extends 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit operands
> into 64-bit operands.
>
> The offset field of the instruction is used to tell the number of bit to
> use for sign-extension. BPF_MOV and BPF_MOVSX have the same code but the
> former sets offset to 0 and the later one sets the offset to 8, 16 or 32
>
> The behaviour of this instruction is dst = (s8,s16,s32)src
>
> On ARM32 the implementation uses LSH and ARSH to extend the 8/16 bits to
> a 32-bit register and then it is sign extended to the upper 32-bit
> register using ARSH. For 32-bit we just move it to the destination
> register and use ARSH to extend it to the upper 32-bit register.
>
> Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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