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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 14/14] bpf,x86: Respect X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE*
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 4:38 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 04:24:33PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 3:40 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:03:33AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I nicked it from emit_bpf_tail_call() in the 32bit jit :-) It seemed a
> > > > > lot more robust than the 64bit one and I couldn't figure out why the
> > > > > difference.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting. Daniel will recognize that trick then :)
> > >
> > > > > Is there concurrency on the jit?
> > > >
> > > > The JIT of different progs can happen in parallel.
> > >
> > > In that case I don't think the patch is safe. I'll see if I can find a
> > > variant that doesn't use static storage.
> >
> > The variable can only change from one fixed value to another fixed value.
> > Different threads will compute the same value. So I think it's safe
> > as-is. READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE won't hurt though.
>
> But the size of the generated code differs based on the
> emit_bpf_tail_call_indirect() args: 'callee_regs_used' and
> 'stack_depth'. So the fixed value can change.

Ahh. Right. It's potentially a different offset for every prog.
Let's put it into struct jit_context then.

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