Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 4 authors, 2022-01-07

Re: [PATCH 1/9] powerpc/lib: Add helper to check if offset is within conditional branch range

From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-10-01 21:37:47
Also in: bpf

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:16 PM Naveen N. Rao
[off-list ref] wrote:
Add a helper to check if a given offset is within the branch range for a
powerpc conditional branch instruction, and update some sites to use the
new helper.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <redacted>
Acked-by: Song Liu <redacted>

With one nitpick:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c         | 7 ++++++-
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h               | 7 +------
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
index a95f63788c6b14..4ba834599c4d4c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #define BRANCH_ABSOLUTE        0x2

 bool is_offset_in_branch_range(long offset);
+bool is_offset_in_cond_branch_range(long offset);
 int create_branch(struct ppc_inst *instr, const u32 *addr,
                  unsigned long target, int flags);
 int create_cond_branch(struct ppc_inst *instr, const u32 *addr,
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index f9a3019e37b43c..e2342b9a1ab9c9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ bool is_offset_in_branch_range(long offset)
        return (offset >= -0x2000000 && offset <= 0x1fffffc && !(offset & 0x3));
 }

+bool is_offset_in_cond_branch_range(long offset)
+{
+       return offset >= -0x8000 && offset <= 0x7FFF && !(offset & 0x3);
+}
Why not inline this one?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+
 /*
  * Helper to check if a given instruction is a conditional branch
  * Derived from the conditional checks in analyse_instr()
@@ -280,7 +285,7 @@ int create_cond_branch(struct ppc_inst *instr, const u32 *addr,
                offset = offset - (unsigned long)addr;

        /* Check we can represent the target in the instruction format */
-       if (offset < -0x8000 || offset > 0x7FFF || offset & 0x3)
+       if (!is_offset_in_cond_branch_range(offset))
                return 1;

        /* Mask out the flags and target, so they don't step on each other. */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h b/arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h
index 99fad093f43ec1..935ea95b66359e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h
@@ -78,11 +78,6 @@
 #define PPC_FUNC_ADDR(d,i) do { PPC_LI32(d, i); } while(0)
 #endif

-static inline bool is_nearbranch(int offset)
-{
-       return (offset < 32768) && (offset >= -32768);
-}
-
 /*
  * The fly in the ointment of code size changing from pass to pass is
  * avoided by padding the short branch case with a NOP.         If code size differs
@@ -91,7 +86,7 @@ static inline bool is_nearbranch(int offset)
  * state.
  */
 #define PPC_BCC(cond, dest)    do {                                          \
-               if (is_nearbranch((dest) - (ctx->idx * 4))) {                 \
+               if (is_offset_in_cond_branch_range((long)(dest) - (ctx->idx * 4))) {    \
                        PPC_BCC_SHORT(cond, dest);                            \
                        EMIT(PPC_RAW_NOP());                                  \
                } else {                                                      \
--
2.33.0
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