Re: [PATCH RFC] arm64: eBPF JIT compiler

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 07/03/2014 11:14 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:20:24AM +0100, Zi Shen Lim wrote:
> > The JIT compiler emits A64 instructions. It supports eBPF only.
> > Legacy BPF is supported thanks to conversion by BPF core.
> >
> > JIT is enabled in the same way as for other architectures:
> >
> >          echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> >
> > Or for additional compiler output:
> >
> >          echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> >
> > See Documentation/networking/filter.txt for more information.
> >
> > The implementation passes all 57 tests in lib/test_bpf.c
> > on ARMv8 Foundation Model :)
>
> First off, this is really cool. Thanks for putting in the effort to get this
> supported on arm64! I'm happy to run tests on some real hardware if you tell
> me how to run them :)

We have lib/test_bpf.c for this, see also Documentation/networking/filter.txt.

So, the procedure would be, e.g.:

 1) echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 2) modprobe/insmod test_bpf
 3) See kernel log for passes/fails

For seccomp/BPF, there's a test suite in:

 https://github.com/redpig/seccomp
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