Re: [PATCH] arm64: bpf: Fix branch offset in JIT

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi Xi, 

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:08:13AM -0700, Xi Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:55 AM Ilias Apalodimas
> <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We've briefly discussed this approach with Yauheni while coming up with the
> > posted patch.
> > I think that contructing the array correctly in the first place is better.
> > Right now it might only be used in bpf2a64_offset() and bpf_prog_fill_jited_linfo()
> > but if we fixup the values on the fly in there, everyone that intends to use the
> > offset for any reason will have to account for the missing instruction.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by "correctly."  What's your correctness spec?

> 
> I don't think there's some consistent semantics of "offsets" across
> the JITs of different architectures (maybe it's good to clean that
> up).  RV64 and RV32 JITs are doing something similar to arm64 with
> respect to offsets.  CCing Björn and Luke.

Even if that's true, is any reason at all why we should skip the first element 
of the array, that's now needed since 7c2e988f400 to jump back to the first
instruction?
Introducing 2 extra if conditions and hotfix the array on the fly (and for 
every future invocation of that), seems better to you?

Cheers
/Ilias