From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 00/13] Atomics for eBPF
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 17:40:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201129014000.3z6eua5pcz3jxmtk@ast-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <829353e6-d90a-a91a-418b-3c2556061cda@fb.com>
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:53:05PM -0800, Yonghong Song wrote:
>
>
> On 11/27/20 9:57 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> > Status of the patches
> > =====================
> >
> > Thanks for the reviews! Differences from v1->v2 [1]:
> >
> > * Fixed mistakes in the netronome driver
> >
> > * Addd sub, add, or, xor operations
> >
> > * The above led to some refactors to keep things readable. (Maybe I
> > should have just waited until I'd implemented these before starting
> > the review...)
> >
> > * Replaced BPF_[CMP]SET | BPF_FETCH with just BPF_[CMP]XCHG, which
> > include the BPF_FETCH flag
> >
> > * Added a bit of documentation. Suggestions welcome for more places
> > to dump this info...
> >
> > The prog_test that's added depends on Clang/LLVM features added by
> > Yonghong in https://reviews.llvm.org/D72184
> >
> > This only includes a JIT implementation for x86_64 - I don't plan to
> > implement JIT support myself for other architectures.
> >
> > Operations
> > ==========
> >
> > This patchset adds atomic operations to the eBPF instruction set. The
> > use-case that motivated this work was a trivial and efficient way to
> > generate globally-unique cookies in BPF progs, but I think it's
> > obvious that these features are pretty widely applicable. The
> > instructions that are added here can be summarised with this list of
> > kernel operations:
> >
> > * atomic[64]_[fetch_]add
> > * atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub
> > * atomic[64]_[fetch_]and
> > * atomic[64]_[fetch_]or
>
> * atomic[64]_[fetch_]xor
>
> > * atomic[64]_xchg
> > * atomic[64]_cmpxchg
>
> Thanks. Overall looks good to me but I did not check carefully
> on jit part as I am not an expert in x64 assembly...
>
> This patch also introduced atomic[64]_{sub,and,or,xor}, similar to
> xadd. I am not sure whether it is necessary. For one thing,
> users can just use atomic[64]_fetch_{sub,and,or,xor} to ignore
> return value and they will achieve the same result, right?
> From llvm side, there is no ready-to-use gcc builtin matching
> atomic[64]_{sub,and,or,xor} which does not have return values.
> If we go this route, we will need to invent additional bpf
> specific builtins.
I think bpf specific builtins are overkill.
As you said the users can use atomic_fetch_xor() and ignore
return value. I think llvm backend should be smart enough to use
BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_XOR insn without BPF_FETCH bit in such case.
But if it's too cumbersome to do at the moment we skip this
optimization for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-29 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-27 17:57 Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 01/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of ModR/M for *(reg + off) Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29 1:15 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:14 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 5:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 10:52 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 17:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 02/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of REX byte Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29 1:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:12 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 5:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 10:54 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 03/13] bpf: x86: Factor out function to emit NEG Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 04/13] bpf: x86: Factor out a lookup table for some ALU opcodes Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 05/13] bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 3:43 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:17 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 06/13] bpf: Move BPF_STX reserved field check into BPF_STX verifier code Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 07/13] bpf: Add BPF_FETCH field / create atomic_fetch_add instruction Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 4:15 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:22 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 08/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 5:25 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:27 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29 1:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:32 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 09/13] bpf: Pull out a macro for interpreting atomic ALU operations Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 21:39 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-27 21:39 ` [RFC PATCH] bpf: bpf_atomic_alu_string[] can be static kernel test robot
2020-11-28 5:35 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub Yonghong Song
2020-11-29 1:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:18 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:38 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 5:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 11:19 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 11/13] bpf: Add bitwise atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 5:39 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-29 1:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:20 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 12/13] bpf: Add tests for new BPF atomic operations Brendan Jackman
2020-12-01 3:55 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:56 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-01 17:24 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02 2:22 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 12:26 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 13/13] bpf: Document new atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 5:53 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 00/13] Atomics for eBPF Yonghong Song
2020-11-29 1:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2020-11-30 17:22 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 3:48 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02 2:00 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 5:05 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02 5:53 ` John Fastabend
2020-12-02 5:59 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 6:27 ` John Fastabend
2020-12-02 8:03 ` Yonghong Song
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