From e8cb0167ae684ed2f73cd880c385b74ef2ae702e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Björn Töpel Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:41:24 +0100 Subject: bpf, doc: add RISC-V JIT to BPF documentation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Update Documentation/networking/filter.txt and Documentation/sysctl/net.txt to mention RISC-V. Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann --- Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 16 +++++++++------- Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 1 + 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt index 01603bc2eff1..b5e060edfc38 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: diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index bc0680706870..2ae91d3873bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ two flavors of JITs, the newer eBPF JIT currently supported on: - sparc64 - mips64 - s390x + - riscv And the older cBPF JIT supported on the following archs: - mips -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b