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authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>2017-04-23 09:01:00 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-04-23 15:56:48 -0400
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bpf, doc: update list of architectures that do eBPF JIT
update the list and remove 'in the future' statement, since all still alive 64-bit architectures now do eBPF JIT. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -595,10 +595,9 @@ got from bpf_prog_create(), and 'ctx' the given context (e.g.
skb pointer). All constraints and restrictions from bpf_check_classic() apply
before a conversion to the new layout is being done behind the scenes!
-Currently, the classic BPF format is being used for JITing on most of the
-architectures. x86-64, aarch64 and s390x perform JIT compilation from eBPF
-instruction set, however, future work will migrate other JIT compilers as well,
-so that they will profit from the very same benefits.
+Currently, the classic BPF format is being used for JITing on most 32-bit
+architectures, whereas x86-64, aarch64, s390x, powerpc64, sparc64 perform JIT
+compilation from eBPF instruction set.
Some core changes of the new internal format: