[PATCH bpf-next,v3] riscv, bpf: Add BPF exception tables

[tongtiangen]

On 2021/10/28 0:55, Björn Töpel wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 13:03, Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen at huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> When a tracing BPF program attempts to read memory without using the
>> bpf_probe_read() helper, the verifier marks the load instruction with
>> the BPF_PROBE_MEM flag. Since the riscv JIT does not currently recognize
>> this flag it falls back to the interpreter.
>>
>> Add support for BPF_PROBE_MEM, by appending an exception table to the
>> BPF program. If the load instruction causes a data abort, the fixup
>> infrastructure finds the exception table and fixes up the fault, by
>> clearing the destination register and jumping over the faulting
>> instruction.
>>
>> A more generic solution would add a "handler" field to the table entry,
>> like on x86 and s390.
>>
>> The same issue in ARM64 is fixed in:
>> commit 800834285361 ("bpf, arm64: Add BPF exception tables")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen at huawei.com>
>> Tested-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui at huawei.com>
>> ---
>> v3:
>> Modify according to Björn's comments, mainly code optimization.
>
> Thank you!
>
> I ran this patch against the test_bpf.ko, and selftests/bpf -- no
> regressions, and after the patch is applied more tests passes. Yay!

Exciting test result, Thanks!

>
> On a related note. The RISC-V selftests/bpf is in a pretty lousy
> state. I'll send a cleanup patch for them soonish. E.g.:
>
> * RISC-V is missing in bpf_tracing.h (libbpf)
> * Some programs don't converge in 16 steps, I had to increase it to ~32
> * The selftest/bpf Makefile needed some RV specific changes
> * ...a lot of tests still don't pass, and needs to be looked in to
>
> Feel free to add:
>
> Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org>
>
>> v2:
>> Modify according to Björn's comments, mainly removes redundant head files
>> extable.h and some code style issues.
>>
>>  arch/riscv/mm/extable.c         |  19 +++-
>>  arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit.h        |   1 +
>>  arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_core.c   |  19 ++--
>>  4 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>>
>
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>
> Björn
> .
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