[PATCH bpf-next v2] riscv, bpf: Add kfunc support for RV64
Pu Lehui
pulehui at huaweicloud.com
Mon Feb 20 17:47:03 PST 2023
On 2023/2/20 22:34, Björn Töpel wrote:
> Pu Lehui <pulehui at huaweicloud.com> writes:
>
>> From: Pu Lehui <pulehui at huawei.com>
>>
>> As another important missing piece of RV64 JIT, kfunc allow bpf programs
>> call kernel functions. For now, RV64 is sufficient to enable it.
>
> Thanks Lehui!
>
> Maybe we can reword/massage the commit message a bit? What do you think
> about something like:
>
> "Now that the BPF trampoline is supported by RISC-V, it is possible to
> use BPF programs with kfunc calls.
>
kfunc and bpf trampoline are functionally independent. kfunc [1], like
bpf helper functions, allows bpf programs to call exported kernel
functions, while bpf trampoline provides a more efficient way than
kprobe to act as a mediator between kernel functions and bpf programs,
and between bpf programs.
In fact, it was already supported before the bpf trampoline
implementation, I just turned it on. As for RV32 kfunc, it needs to do
some registers parsing.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210325015124.1543397-1-kafai@fb.com/
> Note that the trampoline functionality is only supported by RV64.
>
> Add bpf_jit_supports_kfunc_call() to the 64-bit JIT."
>
>
> Björn
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