[PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support

[PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support

[Alexander Alemayhu]

sparc64 support was added in 7a12b5031c6b (sparc64: Add eBPF JIT., 2017-04-17)[0]
and ppc64 in 156d0e290e96 (powerpc/ebpf/jit: Implement JIT compiler for extended BPF, 2016-06-22)[1].

[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=7a12b5031c6b
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=156d0e290e96
Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
---
 man/man8/tc-bpf.8 | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/tc-bpf.8 b/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
index e371964d06ab..2e9812ede028 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ In Linux, it's generally considered that eBPF is the successor of cBPF.
 The kernel internally transforms cBPF expressions into eBPF expressions and
 executes the latter. Execution of them can be performed in an interpreter
 or at setup time, they can be just-in-time compiled (JIT'ed) to run as
-native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64 and s390 architectures have
-eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have cBPF, but did not
-(yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
+native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64, s390, ppc64 and sparc64
+architectures have eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have
+cBPF, but did not (yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
 
 eBPF's instruction set has similar underlying principles as the cBPF
 instruction set, it however is modelled closer to the underlying
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support

[David Miller]

From: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Date: Sat,  6 May 2017 22:30:10 +0200

> sparc64 support was added in 7a12b5031c6b (sparc64: Add eBPF JIT., 2017-04-17)[0]
> and ppc64 in 156d0e290e96 (powerpc/ebpf/jit: Implement JIT compiler for extended BPF, 2016-06-22)[1].
> 
> [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=7a12b5031c6b
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=156d0e290e96
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 05/06/2017 10:30 PM, Alexander Alemayhu wrote:
> sparc64 support was added in 7a12b5031c6b (sparc64: Add eBPF JIT., 2017-04-17)[0]
> and ppc64 in 156d0e290e96 (powerpc/ebpf/jit: Implement JIT compiler for extended BPF, 2016-06-22)[1].
>
> [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=7a12b5031c6b
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=156d0e290e96
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sat,  6 May 2017 22:30:10 +0200
Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com> wrote:

> sparc64 support was added in 7a12b5031c6b (sparc64: Add eBPF JIT., 2017-04-17)[0]
> and ppc64 in 156d0e290e96 (powerpc/ebpf/jit: Implement JIT compiler for extended BPF, 2016-06-22)[1].
> 
> [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=7a12b5031c6b
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=156d0e290e96
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
> ---
>  man/man8/tc-bpf.8 | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/tc-bpf.8 b/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
> index e371964d06ab..2e9812ede028 100644
> --- a/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
> +++ b/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
> @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ In Linux, it's generally considered that eBPF is the successor of cBPF.
>  The kernel internally transforms cBPF expressions into eBPF expressions and
>  executes the latter. Execution of them can be performed in an interpreter
>  or at setup time, they can be just-in-time compiled (JIT'ed) to run as
> -native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64 and s390 architectures have
> -eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have cBPF, but did not
> -(yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
> +native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64, s390, ppc64 and sparc64
> +architectures have eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have
> +cBPF, but did not (yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
>  
>  eBPF's instruction set has similar underlying principles as the cBPF
>  instruction set, it however is modelled closer to the underlying

Applied thanks.