[PATCH bpf-next v3 2/4] arm64: insn: add encoders for atomic operations

Daniel Borkmann daniel at iogearbox.net
Tue Feb 15 16:21:20 PST 2022


Hi Will,

On 2/15/22 6:42 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 03:39:48PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 1/29/22 11:04 PM, Hou Tao wrote:
>>> It is a preparation patch for eBPF atomic supports under arm64. eBPF
>>> needs support atomic[64]_fetch_add, atomic[64]_[fetch_]{and,or,xor} and
>>> atomic[64]_{xchg|cmpxchg}. The ordering semantics of eBPF atomics are
>>> the same with the implementations in linux kernel.
>>>
>>> Add three helpers to support LDCLR/LDEOR/LDSET/SWP, CAS and DMB
>>> instructions. STADD/STCLR/STEOR/STSET are simply encoded as aliases for
>>> LDADD/LDCLR/LDEOR/LDSET with XZR as the destination register, so no extra
>>> helper is added. atomic_fetch_add() and other atomic ops needs support for
>>> STLXR instruction, so extend enum aarch64_insn_ldst_type to do that.
>>>
>>> LDADD/LDEOR/LDSET/SWP and CAS instructions are only available when LSE
>>> atomics is enabled, so just return AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT directly in
>>> these newly-added helpers if CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS is disabled.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1 at huawei.com>
>>
>> Hey Mark / Ard / Will / Catalin or others, could we get an Ack on patch 1 & 2
>> at min if it looks good to you?
> 
> Sorry for the delay, for some reason this series has all ended up in my
> spam! I'll take a look this week. If it looks good, do you mind if I queue
> those two patches in arm64 on a stable branch for you to pull as well? We've
> got a few other (non-BPF) changes pending to the instruction decoder, and
> I'd like to avoid conflicts if we can.

Yes, that should be totally fine.

Thanks,
Daniel



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