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author | Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> | 2021-01-14 18:17:47 +0000 |
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committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2021-01-14 18:34:29 -0800 |
commit | 5ffa25502b5ab3d639829a2d1e316cff7f59a41e (patch) | |
tree | b3ae91f0bdbcbad21f09cd5ed54b39ee7942c79f /arch/x86/net | |
parent | 5ca419f2864a2c60940dcf4bbaeb69546200e36f (diff) |
bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg
This adds two atomic opcodes, both of which include the BPF_FETCH
flag. XCHG without the BPF_FETCH flag would naturally encode
atomic_set. This is not supported because it would be of limited
value to userspace (it doesn't imply any barriers). CMPXCHG without
BPF_FETCH woulud be an atomic compare-and-write. We don't have such
an operation in the kernel so it isn't provided to BPF either.
There are two significant design decisions made for the CMPXCHG
instruction:
- To solve the issue that this operation fundamentally has 3
operands, but we only have two register fields. Therefore the
operand we compare against (the kernel's API calls it 'old') is
hard-coded to be R0. x86 has similar design (and A64 doesn't
have this problem).
A potential alternative might be to encode the other operand's
register number in the immediate field.
- The kernel's atomic_cmpxchg returns the old value, while the C11
userspace APIs return a boolean indicating the comparison
result. Which should BPF do? A64 returns the old value. x86 returns
the old value in the hard-coded register (and also sets a
flag). That means return-old-value is easier to JIT, so that's
what we use.
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210114181751.768687-8-jackmanb@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/net')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c index eea7d8b0bb12..308241187582 100644 --- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c @@ -815,6 +815,14 @@ static int emit_atomic(u8 **pprog, u8 atomic_op, /* src_reg = atomic_fetch_add(dst_reg + off, src_reg); */ EMIT2(0x0F, 0xC1); break; + case BPF_XCHG: + /* src_reg = atomic_xchg(dst_reg + off, src_reg); */ + EMIT1(0x87); + break; + case BPF_CMPXCHG: + /* r0 = atomic_cmpxchg(dst_reg + off, r0, src_reg); */ + EMIT2(0x0F, 0xB1); + break; default: pr_err("bpf_jit: unknown atomic opcode %02x\n", atomic_op); return -EFAULT; |