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From: Jan Seiffert <kaffeemonster@googlemail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>, Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 1/3] bpf jit: Make the filter.c::__load_pointer helper non-static  for the jits
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 15:02:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F79A37D.5010605@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B6ECE@saturn3.aculab.com>

David Laight schrieb:
>  
>> The function is renamed to make it a little more clear what it does.
>> It is not added to any .h because it is not for general 
>> consumption, only for bpf internal use (and so by the jits).
> 
> I'd have thought it better to put in into a bfp_internal.h
> (or similar) with a big warning there about the asm users.
> 

Hmmm, OK, where would i put the .h? Right there under ./include/linux/?

> Possibly even worth adding some other defs that the asm
> files will need (if there are any).
> 

There is at least one other define, the lowest negative address range,
but it would be a copy of the same define in filter.h, or i would have
to massage filter.h to make it fit for inclusion by assembly.
So I'm unsure how to proceed.

> 	David
> 

Greetings
	Jan

-- 
An IPv4 address space walks into a bar: "A strong CIDR please. I'm
exhausted."

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 15:00 [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 0/3] bpf jit drops the ball on negative memory references Jan Seiffert
2012-03-30 15:08 ` [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 1/3] bpf jit: Make the filter.c::__load_pointer helper non-static for the jits Jan Seiffert
2012-03-30 18:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-02  9:18   ` David Laight
2012-04-02 13:02     ` Jan Seiffert [this message]
2012-04-03 22:02   ` David Miller
2012-04-03 22:26     ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-03 22:28       ` David Miller
2012-04-03 22:41         ` Jan Seiffert
2012-03-30 15:24 ` [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 2/3] bpf jit: Let the x86 jit handle negative offsets Jan Seiffert
2012-03-30 18:58   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-03 22:02   ` David Miller
2012-03-30 15:35 ` [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 3/3] bpf jit: Let the powerpc " Jan Seiffert
2012-04-03 22:03   ` David Miller
2012-04-03 22:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30  2:43       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30  3:40         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30  3:43         ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-30  4:11         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30  4:27           ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-30  4:29             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30  4:43               ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-30  5:26                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30 17:41                   ` David Miller
2012-04-30 21:55                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30 21:57                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-30 22:32                         ` Jan Seiffert
2012-05-01  0:26                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-01  0:44                             ` Jan Seiffert
2012-05-01  0:47                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-01  1:03                             ` David Miller
2012-04-30  5:02           ` [REGRESSION][PATCH V5 " Jan Seiffert
2012-04-30 17:41             ` David Miller
2012-04-03 22:31     ` [REGRESSION][PATCH V4 " Jan Seiffert
2012-04-03 22:35       ` David Miller
2012-04-02 19:51 ` [PATCH V1 1/1] NET: add a bpf jit for Alpha Jan Seiffert
2012-04-02 20:43   ` Matt Turner
2012-04-02 21:04     ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-04 14:27   ` Richard Henderson
2012-04-05  0:24     ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-06 18:57 ` [REGRESSION][PATCH v1] bpf jit: Let the arm jit handle negative memory references Jan Seiffert
2012-04-06 21:48   ` [REGRESSION][PATCH v2] " Jan Seiffert
2012-04-06 22:28   ` [REGRESSION][PATCH v1] " Mircea Gherzan
2012-04-06 23:30     ` Jan Seiffert
2012-04-07  3:41     ` Eric Dumazet

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