Re: [PATCH] RFC: arm: eBPF JIT compiler

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 16:57:21 EST


On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:03:53AM +0530, Shubham Bansal wrote:
> The JIT compiler emits ARM 32 bit instructions. Currently, It supports
> eBPF only. Classic BPF is supported because of the conversion by BPF
> core.
>
> JIT is enabled with
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
>
> Constant Blinding can be enabled along with JIT using
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
> echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden
>
> See Documentation/networking/filter.txt for more information.
> Tested on ARMv7 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER enabled.
>
> Results:
>
> 1. Interpreter:
>
> [ 93.551176] test_bpf: Summary: 314 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [0/306 JIT'ed]
>
> 2. JIT enabled:
>
> [ 92.913931] test_bpf: Summary: 314 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [278/306 JIT'ed]
>
> 3. JIT + blinding enabled:
>
> [ 109.414506] test_bpf: Summary: 314 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [278/306 JIT'ed]

Hi Shubham

Is there a HOWTO or a README somewhere about running the tests? I have
a few ARMv5 platforms i can run tests on.

Thanks
Andrew