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authorJose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>2022-08-24 13:07:57 +0200
committerJose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>2022-08-24 15:25:18 +0200
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bpf: facilitate constant propagation of function addresses
eBPF effectively supports two kind of call instructions: - The so called pseudo-calls ("bpf to bpf"). - External calls ("bpf to kernel"). The BPF call instruction always gets an immediate argument, whose interpretation varies depending on the purpose of the instruction: - For pseudo-calls, the immediate argument is interpreted as a 32-bit PC-relative displacement measured in number of 64-bit words minus one. - For external calls, the immediate argument is interpreted as the identification of a kernel helper. In order to differenciate both flavors of CALL instructions the SRC field of the instruction (otherwise unused) is abused as an opcode; if the field holds 0 the instruction is an external call, if it holds BPF_PSEUDO_CALL the instruction is a pseudo-call. C-to-BPF toolchains, including the GNU toolchain, use the following practical heuristic at assembly time in order to determine what kind of CALL instruction to generate: call instructions requiring a fixup at assembly time are interpreted as pseudo-calls. This means that in practice a call instruction involving symbols at assembly time (such as `call foo') is assembled into a pseudo-call instruction, whereas something like `call 12' is assembled into an external call instruction. In both cases, the argument of CALL is an immediate: at the time of writing eBPF lacks support for indirect calls, i.e. there is no call-to-register instruction. This is the reason why BPF programs, in practice, rely on certain optimizations to happen in order to generate calls to immediates. This is a typical example involving a kernel helper: static void * (*bpf_map_lookup_elem)(void *map, const void *key) = (void *) 1; int foo (...) { char *ret; ret = bpf_map_lookup_elem (args...); if (ret) return 1; return 0; } Note how the code above relies on the compiler to do constant propagation so the call to bpf_map_lookup_elem can be compiled to a `call 1' instruction. While GCC provides a kernel_helper function declaration attribute that can be used in a robust way to tell GCC to generate an external call despite of optimization level and any other consideration, the Linux kernel bpf_helpers.h file relies on tricks like the above. This patch modifies the BPF backend to avoid SSA sparse constant propagation to be "undone" by the expander loading the function address into a register. A new test is also added. Tested in bpf-unknown-linux-gnu. No regressions. gcc/ChangeLog: PR target/106733 * config/bpf/bpf.cc (bpf_legitimate_address_p): Recognize integer constants as legitimate addresses for functions. (bpf_small_register_classes_for_mode_p): Define target hook. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog: PR target/106733 * gcc.target/bpf/constant-calls.c: Rename to ... * gcc.target/bpf/constant-calls-1.c: and modify to not expect failure anymore. * gcc.target/bpf/constant-calls-2.c: New test.
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/config/bpf')
-rw-r--r--gcc/config/bpf/bpf.cc21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/config/bpf/bpf.cc b/gcc/config/bpf/bpf.cc
index 6a0e3bb..7e37e08 100644
--- a/gcc/config/bpf/bpf.cc
+++ b/gcc/config/bpf/bpf.cc
@@ -659,12 +659,15 @@ bpf_address_base_p (rtx x, bool strict)
target machine for a memory operand of mode MODE. */
static bool
-bpf_legitimate_address_p (machine_mode mode ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+bpf_legitimate_address_p (machine_mode mode,
rtx x,
bool strict)
{
switch (GET_CODE (x))
{
+ case CONST_INT:
+ return (mode == FUNCTION_MODE);
+
case REG:
return bpf_address_base_p (x, strict);
@@ -1311,6 +1314,22 @@ bpf_core_walk (tree *tp, int *walk_subtrees, void *data)
return NULL_TREE;
}
+/* Implement target hook small_register_classes_for_mode_p. */
+
+static bool
+bpf_small_register_classes_for_mode_p (machine_mode mode)
+{
+ if (TARGET_XBPF)
+ return 1;
+ else
+ /* Avoid putting function addresses in registers, as calling these
+ is not supported in eBPF. */
+ return (mode != FUNCTION_MODE);
+}
+
+#undef TARGET_SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES_FOR_MODE_P
+#define TARGET_SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES_FOR_MODE_P \
+ bpf_small_register_classes_for_mode_p
/* Implement TARGET_RESOLVE_OVERLOADED_BUILTIN (see gccint manual section
Target Macros::Misc.).