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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2012-07-10	powerpc: Start using ___PPC_RA/B/S/T where necessary	Michael Neuling	1	-53/+53
	Now have ___PPC_RA/B/S/T we can use it in some places. These are places where we can't use the existing defines which will soon enforce R0-R31 usage. The macros being changed here are being used in inline asm, which can't convert to enforce the R0-R31 usage. bpf_jit uses a mix of both generated and non-generated with the same code, so just convert all these to use the ___PPC_R versions which won't enforce R usage later. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-10	powerpc: Fix usage of register macros getting ready for %r0 change	Michael Neuling	1	-2/+2
	Anything that uses a constructed instruction (ie. from ppc-opcode.h), need to use the new R0 macro, as %r0 is not going to work. Also convert usages of macros where we are just determining an offset (usually for a load/store), like: std r14,STK_REG(r14)(r1) Can't use STK_REG(r14) as %r14 doesn't work in the STK_REG macro since it's just calculating an offset. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-06-29	powerpc: Fix BPF_JIT code to link with multiple TOCs	Michael Ellerman	1	-0/+2
	If the kernel is big enough (eg. allyesconfig), the linker may need to switch TOCs when calling from the BPF JIT code out to the external helpers (skb_copy_bits() & bpf_internal_load_pointer_neg_helper()). In order to do that we need to leave space after the bl for the linker to insert a reload of our TOC pointer. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-04-30	bpf jit: Let the powerpc jit handle negative offsets	Jan Seiffert	3	-31/+111
	Now the helper function from filter.c for negative offsets is exported, it can be used it in the jit to handle negative offsets. First modify the asm load helper functions to handle: - know positive offsets - know negative offsets - any offset then the compiler can be modified to explicitly use these helper when appropriate. This fixes the case of a negative X register and allows to lift the restriction that bpf programs with negative offsets can't be jited. Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Seiffert <kaffeemonster@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-21	net: filter: BPF 'JIT' compiler for PPC64	Matt Evans	4	-0/+1063
	An implementation of a code generator for BPF programs to speed up packet filtering on PPC64, inspired by Eric Dumazet's x86-64 version. Filter code is generated as an ABI-compliant function in module_alloc()'d mem with stackframe & prologue/epilogue generated if required (simple filters don't need anything more than an li/blr). The filter's local variables, M[], live in registers. Supports all BPF opcodes, although "complicated" loads from negative packet offsets (e.g. SKF_LL_OFF) are not yet supported. There are a couple of further optimisations left for future work; many-pass assembly with branch-reach reduction and a register allocator to push M[] variables into volatile registers would improve the code quality further. This currently supports big-endian 64-bit PowerPC only (but is fairly simple to port to PPC32 or LE!). Enabled in the same way as x86-64: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable Or, enabled with extra debug output: echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>