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From: daniel@iogearbox•net (Daniel Borkmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:52:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573B05F3.7000009@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463441786-32224-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org>

On 05/17/2016 01:36 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
> In the current implementation of ARM64 eBPF JIT, R23 and R24 are used for
> tmp registers, which are callee-saved registers. This leads to variable size
> of JIT prologue and epilogue. The latest blinding constant change prefers to
> constant size of prologue and epilogue. AAPCS reserves R9 ~ R15 for temp
> registers which not need to be saved/restored during function call. So, replace
> R23 and R24 to R10 and R11, and remove tmp_used flag to save 2 instructions for
> some jited BPF program.
>
> CC: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
> Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@gmail•com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro•org>

LGTM, thanks!

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-16 23:36 [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers Yang Shi
2016-05-17 11:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-05-17 11:52 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2016-05-17 18:03 ` David Miller

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