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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/filter.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 33 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt index 2196b824e96c..319e5e041f38 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt @@ -464,10 +464,11 @@ breakpoints: 0 1 JIT compiler ------------ -The Linux kernel has a built-in BPF JIT compiler for x86_64, SPARC, PowerPC, -ARM, ARM64, MIPS and s390 and can be enabled through CONFIG_BPF_JIT. The JIT -compiler is transparently invoked for each attached filter from user space -or for internal kernel users if it has been previously enabled by root: +The Linux kernel has a built-in BPF JIT compiler for x86_64, SPARC, +PowerPC, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, RISC-V and s390 and can be enabled through +CONFIG_BPF_JIT. The JIT compiler is transparently invoked for each +attached filter from user space or for internal kernel users if it has +been previously enabled by root: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable @@ -603,9 +604,10 @@ 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 32-bit -architectures, whereas x86-64, aarch64, s390x, powerpc64, sparc64, arm32 perform -JIT compilation from eBPF instruction set. +Currently, the classic BPF format is being used for JITing on most +32-bit architectures, whereas x86-64, aarch64, s390x, powerpc64, +sparc64, arm32, riscv (RV64G) perform JIT compilation from eBPF +instruction set. Some core changes of the new internal format: @@ -827,7 +829,7 @@ tracing filters may do to maintain counters of events, for example. Register R9 is not used by socket filters either, but more complex filters may be running out of registers and would have to resort to spill/fill to stack. -Internal BPF can used as generic assembler for last step performance +Internal BPF can be used as a generic assembler for last step performance optimizations, socket filters and seccomp are using it as assembler. Tracing filters may use it as assembler to generate code from kernel. In kernel usage may not be bounded by security considerations, since generated internal BPF code @@ -865,7 +867,7 @@ Three LSB bits store instruction class which is one of: BPF_STX 0x03 BPF_STX 0x03 BPF_ALU 0x04 BPF_ALU 0x04 BPF_JMP 0x05 BPF_JMP 0x05 - BPF_RET 0x06 [ class 6 unused, for future if needed ] + BPF_RET 0x06 BPF_JMP32 0x06 BPF_MISC 0x07 BPF_ALU64 0x07 When BPF_CLASS(code) == BPF_ALU or BPF_JMP, 4th bit encodes source operand ... @@ -902,9 +904,9 @@ If BPF_CLASS(code) == BPF_ALU or BPF_ALU64 [ in eBPF ], BPF_OP(code) is one of: BPF_ARSH 0xc0 /* eBPF only: sign extending shift right */ BPF_END 0xd0 /* eBPF only: endianness conversion */ -If BPF_CLASS(code) == BPF_JMP, BPF_OP(code) is one of: +If BPF_CLASS(code) == BPF_JMP or BPF_JMP32 [ in eBPF ], BPF_OP(code) is one of: - BPF_JA 0x00 + BPF_JA 0x00 /* BPF_JMP only */ BPF_JEQ 0x10 BPF_JGT 0x20 BPF_JGE 0x30 @@ -912,8 +914,8 @@ If BPF_CLASS(code) == BPF_JMP, BPF_OP(code) is one of: BPF_JNE 0x50 /* eBPF only: jump != */ BPF_JSGT 0x60 /* eBPF only: signed '>' */ BPF_JSGE 0x70 /* eBPF only: signed '>=' */ - BPF_CALL 0x80 /* eBPF only: function call */ - BPF_EXIT 0x90 /* eBPF only: function return */ + BPF_CALL 0x80 /* eBPF BPF_JMP only: function call */ + BPF_EXIT 0x90 /* eBPF BPF_JMP only: function return */ BPF_JLT 0xa0 /* eBPF only: unsigned '<' */ BPF_JLE 0xb0 /* eBPF only: unsigned '<=' */ BPF_JSLT 0xc0 /* eBPF only: signed '<' */ @@ -936,8 +938,9 @@ Classic BPF wastes the whole BPF_RET class to represent a single 'ret' operation. Classic BPF_RET | BPF_K means copy imm32 into return register and perform function exit. eBPF is modeled to match CPU, so BPF_JMP | BPF_EXIT in eBPF means function exit only. The eBPF program needs to store return -value into register R0 before doing a BPF_EXIT. Class 6 in eBPF is currently -unused and reserved for future use. +value into register R0 before doing a BPF_EXIT. Class 6 in eBPF is used as +BPF_JMP32 to mean exactly the same operations as BPF_JMP, but with 32-bit wide +operands for the comparisons instead. For load and store instructions the 8-bit 'code' field is divided as: |