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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] test_bpf: Add test to make conditional jump cross
 a large number of insns.
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 02:20:09 +0200
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On 06/14/2017 01:49 AM, David Daney wrote:
> On MIPS, conditional branches can only span 32k instructions.  To
> exceed this limit in the JIT with the BPF maximum of 4k insns, we need
> to choose eBPF insns that expand to more than 8 machine instructions.
> Use BPF_LD_ABS as it is quite complex.  This forces the JIT to invert
> the sense of the branch to branch around a long jump to the end.
>
> This (somewhat) verifies that the branch inversion logic and target
> address calculation of the long jumps are done correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

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