On 5/7/20 3:05 AM, Luke Nelson wrote:

The current code for BPF_{AND,OR,XOR,JSET} BPF_K loads the immediate to
a temporary register before use.

This patch changes the code to avoid using a temporary register
when the BPF immediate is encodable using an arm64 logical immediate
instruction. If the encoding fails (due to the immediate not being
encodable), it falls back to using a temporary register.

Example of generated code for BPF_ALU32_IMM(BPF_AND, R0, 0x80000001):

without optimization:

   24: mov  w10, #0x8000ffff
   28: movk w10, #0x1
   2c: and  w7, w7, w10

with optimization:

   24: and  w7, w7, #0x80000001

Since the encoding process is quite complex, the JIT reuses existing
functionality in arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c for encoding logical immediates
rather than duplicate it in the JIT.

Co-developed-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Nelson <luke.r.nels@gmail.com>

Great find, thanks! Given Will wanted to queue them:

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>